War of the Roses is a Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas film about the role of Justice in partnership and committed relationships, as well as its vices of Meddling or "getting overly micromanaging" and Mercenary behavior, or "using each other." You can see ample information about it below. It is available for a small fee on the web.
In the film, War of the Roses (1989), we see the Mercenary behavior of both a husband (Michael Douglas) and wife (Kathleen Turner) as their marriage unravels. Like all couples tolerating each other in marriage, they meet by bidding on the same antique, and the Meddling in each other's property and personhood commences. In divorce, they obliterate each other, tragically. It is an example of how partners desire Justice, the center point between Meddling and being Mercenary, and how fragile that balance is to find.
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The War of the Roses
- -The Roses, Barbara and Oliver, live happily as a married couple. Then she starts to wonder what life would be like without Oliver, and likes what she sees. Both want to stay in the house, and so they begin a campaign to force each other to leave. In the middle of the fighting is D'Amato, the divorce lawyer. He gets to see how far both will go to get rid of the other, and boy do they go far.