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RATING: ROTTEN  READING: 36% (FRESH = 60% or Greater)   Reviews counted: 14 Fresh: 5  Rotten: 9 Average Rating: 5.1/10

( Showing 1-14 of 14 Tomatometer Reviews, sorted a-z )   "In spite of Good Housekeeping's unsavory characters and WWF mentality, this white trash War of the Roses is a surprisingly engaging film." -- Merle Bertrand, FILM THREAT   "This loud and thoroughly obnoxious comedy about a pair of squabbling working-class spouses is a deeply unpleasant experience." -- Ken Fox, TV GUIDE'S MOVIE GUIDE   "As pure over-the-top trash, any John Waters movie has it beat by a country mile." -- Justin Hartung, CITYSEARCH   "'The War of the Roses,' trailer-trash style. Entertaining but like shooting fish in a barrel." -- Harvey S. Karten, COMPUSERVE   "The script lacks the sophistication that would motivate anyone but a Springer fan to keep watching in hopes that the battling couple would soon annihilate each other." -- ORLANDO WEEKLY Soundtrack Books All Related Items   "Novak manages to capture a cruelly hilarious vein of black comedy in the situation with his cast of non-actors and a gritty, no-budget approach." -- Rich Cline, FILM THREAT   "Novak contemplates a heartland so overwhelmed by its lack of purpose that it seeks excitement in manufactured high drama." -- Ed Gonzalez, SLANT MAGAZINE   "Deliciously mean-spirited and wryly observant." -- MaryAnn Johanson, FLICK FILOSOPHER   "The actors improvise and scream their way around this movie directionless, lacking any of the rollicking dark humor so necessary to make this kind of idea work on screen." -- Jon Alon Walz, BOXOFFICE MAGAZINE   Click to read the article. -- Marshall Fine, JOURNAL NEWS Cream of the Crop ROTTEN 50%   "The movie is ... very funny as you peek at it through the fingers in front of your eyes." -- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES   "As broad and cartoonish as the screenplay is, there is an accuracy of observation in the work of the director, Frank Novak, that keeps the film grounded in an undeniable social realism." -- Dave Kehr, NEW YORK TIMES   "Plays like one long, meandering sketch inspired by the works of John Waters and Todd Solondz, rather than a fully developed story." -- Lou Lumenick, NEW YORK POST   "Too stupid to be satire, too obviously hateful to be classified otherwise, Frank Novak's irritating slice of lumpen life is as reliably soul-killing as its title is nearly meaningless." -- Ed Park, VILLAGE VOICE

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