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# The Roses Are Warring Again
- URL: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/the-roses-are-warring-again-08-2025/
- Published: 2025-08-26T16:00:04.000Z
- Updated: 2025-08-26T18:15:31.000Z
- Description: With Kathleen Turner's blessing.
- Author: Heather
- Tags: fugs, #wp, #wp-post, #hasslideshow, #Import 2026-10-07 08:29

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*The Roses* is a remake of the classic *War of the Roses*, a classic dark comedy in which Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner play a married couple whose infatuation curdles into contempt and then homicidal loathing. I vividly remember seeing it as a kid and expecting it to be the same kind of romp as *Romancing the Stone*, because at that age I was not actually interrogating or researching my choices; this is also how I came to see *The Secret of My Success* in the movie theater, believing it to be a documentary about my beloved Michael J. Fox, rather than a terrible movie starring him. Whoops. Anyway, I'm curious how this version will play out, because if I remember correctly the original did a good job showing you why either of them would feel like the victim and why either could be the villain, and ultimately they were both. The trailer for this that I saw seems to tip *eeeeeever* so slightly into Olivia Colman being worse and I hope that's inaccurate, and that it actually maintains the essential balance. We shall see. Or, maybe we shan't.

P.S. Allison Janney is in here and she looks AMAZING.

###### \[Photos: Jason Mendez/Getty Images\]