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A precocious little girl sues her selfish, career-driven parents for emancipation, surprising them both.A precocious little girl sues her selfish, career-driven parents for emancipation, surprising them both.A precocious little girl sues her selfish, career-driven parents for emancipation, surprising them both.
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- TriviaLoosely based on the marriage and divorce of director Peter Bogdanovich and producer Polly Platt.
- GoofsCasey argues with Lucy that she is 9 years old, when Lucy says that she is 8. Although the movie is trying to show how the parents neglect to remember her birthday, given that her date of birth is December 11, 1975, the Casey character would still be 8 at the time the movie was released.
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Casey Brodsky: Mother, you and Dad for a long time did not recognize my rights as a human being. You both treated me like chattel. You cannot do with me as you please anymore. We have irreconcilable differences.
- Alternate versionsNBC edited 5 minutes from this film for its 1987 network television premiere.
- SoundtracksYou and Me (We Wanted It All)
Written by Carole Bayer Sager, Peter Allen
Performed by Frank Sinatra
Unichappell Music, Inc., Begonia Melodies, Inc., Irving Music, Inc., Woodnough Music, Inc.
Courtesy of Reprise Records
By arrangement with Warner Special Products
Published by Warner Bros. Records, Inc.
[Played over the closing credits]
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Irreconcilable Differences is one of the best movies of the 80s and quite possibly the most underrated love story ever made. For whatever reason, audiences chose to ignore this well-written and well-acted gem in 1984. I think it may have been due to the marketing campaign -- they tried to sell it as a cutesy gimmick movie where a precocious child "divorces" her parents. But that isn't what this movie is about at all. This movie is able to provide strong commentary about failed relationships, especially when egos, power, and greed substitute for the things that should really matter in a person's life. In addition, it creates a viable love story that doesn't resort to typical Hollywood formulas when it creates the conflicts that may or may not separate these two people who we know belong with each other. We the audience get to see them actually fall in love on the screen before our very eyes. You would think this should be fairly standard, but how many movies can you recall (especially recently) that you can say that about? This is done through great acting, writing, and directing. Notice how Shelley Long's voice changes over the years as she goes through the various changes in her life. Watch Ryan O'Neal's eyes toward the end as you can actually see an inner peace that he never had earlier.
These are just a few of the great things I loved about this great, heartwarming, and underappreciated film. If you want a great love story with some very good comic and dramatic moments as well, rent this movie! You won't regret it.
These are just a few of the great things I loved about this great, heartwarming, and underappreciated film. If you want a great love story with some very good comic and dramatic moments as well, rent this movie! You won't regret it.
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- Budget
- $6,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $12,414,210
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $3,076,894
- Sep 30, 1984
- Gross worldwide
- $12,414,210
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By what name was Irreconcilable Differences (1984) officially released in India in English?
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