Rating: PG13
Genre:
Comedy
Theatrical Release: 08/08/2003(USA
Release Date: 01/27/2004
SubTitles: English/Espanol/French
Dubbed: English/Espanol/French
Sound: DD5.1/DDS
Run Time: 117 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Adult Language
Distributor/Studio: 20th Century Fox
Based on the 1997 National Book Award-nominated novel of the same name by
Diane Johnson (co-writer of the script for
Stanley Kubrick's
The Shining),
Le Divorce is a
romantic comedy from director
James Ivory. Revisiting the "Americans in France" theme that
Ivory explored in 1998's
A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries, the film stars
Kate Hudson as
Isabel Walker. When she receives word that her pregnant poetess sister
Roxy (
Naomi Watts) has been left by her philandering French husband, artist
Charles-Henri de Persand (
Melvil Poupaud),
Isabel offers her help and moral support. As the depressive Roxy struggles with the separation proceedings -- which include the rights to ownership of a work of art that's a family heirloom -- Isabel takes a job with author
Olivia Pace and has a fling with the bohemian Yves (
Romain Duris). But things get complicated when the younger, more impudent sister decides instead to pursue Charles' uncle, the snooty, married diplomat Edgar (
Thierry Lhermitte), and when a mysterious man (
Matthew Modine) starts stalking Roxy. Eventually, the rest of the plucky Walker clan has to come to the aid of the siblings.
Stockard Channing and
Sam Waterston co-star.
~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide
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