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Michael Douglas, Danny DeVito, and Kathleen Turner in The War of the Roses (1989)

Michael Douglas: Oliver Rose

The War of the Roses

Michael Douglas credited as playing...

Oliver Rose

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  • Oliver Rose: I think you owe me a solid reason. I worked my ass off for you and the kids to have a nice life and you owe me a reason that makes sense. I want to hear it.
  • Barbara Rose: Because. When I watch you eat. When I see you asleep. When I look at you lately, I just want to smash your face in.
  • Oliver Rose: You have sunk below the deepest layer of prehistoric frog shit at the bottom of a New Jersey scum swamp.
  • Oliver Rose: You weren't even multiorgasmic before you met me, were you?
  • Barbara Rose: You really expect me to keep on reassuring you sexually even now when we disgust each other?
  • Oliver Rose: [just got into the chandelier which pulled him of the balcony] I think I can swing this over to the balcony.
  • Barbara Rose: Stop it! Stop it! Stop it!
  • Barbara Rose: I loosened the bolt. I was gonna drop it on you.
  • Oliver Rose: Ooh. That's a good one.
  • Oliver Rose: [Oliver and Barbara pass each other on the stairs] Stinking bitch!
  • Barbara Rose: Dumb bastard!
  • Oliver Rose: Slut!
  • Barbara Rose: Scum!
  • Oliver Rose: Filth!
  • Barbara Rose: Faggot!
  • [Passes Susan]
  • Barbara Rose: Morning, Susan.
  • [Oliver Rose pees on the fish Barbara Rose had prepared for the guests]
  • Barbara Rose: I would never humiliate you like this!
  • Oliver Rose: You're not equipped to, honey.
  • Oliver Rose: Wh--why do you want a divorce? I mean... did l do something? Did l... did l *not* do something?
  • Barbara Rose: l can't give you specifics, Oliver.
  • Oliver Rose: Well, try!
  • Barbara Rose: I don't *want* to try!
  • Oliver Rose: ls there somebody else? Another man?
  • Barbara Rose: No.
  • Oliver Rose: A woman?
  • Barbara Rose: You wish.
  • Barbara Rose: [learning that Oliver is moving back into the home] This is the stupidest thing you've ever done!
  • Oliver Rose: Second stupidest.
  • Oliver Rose: Nobody that makes pâté this good can be all bad.
  • Barbara Rose: That depends... on what the pate is made of.
  • Barbara Rose: [pauses] Woof.
  • [Finding out that they're getting divorced]
  • Oliver Rose: And you better get yourself a damn good lawyer!
  • Barbara Rose: Best your money can buy!
  • Barbara Rose: Get out of the car, honey!
  • Oliver Rose: You're gonna have to kill me.
  • Barbara Rose: I mean it, Oliver.
  • Oliver Rose: You don't have *guts*! C'mon!
  • Oliver Rose: What the hell is wrong with you?
  • Gavin: [cut to interior of Gavin's office] If you're with a woman for any length of time, eventually you'll ask her that question.
  • Oliver Rose: [mistakenly almost hits Susan with the thrown chair] Oh, I'm sorry, Susan. I thought you were Barbara.
  • Oliver Rose: Barbara, Susan is here. She wants to know if you are all right.
  • Barbara Rose: Never felt better.
  • Oliver Rose: [opens the door for Susan] Thank you for dropping by, Susan.
  • Susan: Will you go outside with me, Mr. Rose?
  • Oliver Rose: Let's go.
  • [pauses]
  • Oliver Rose: Wait a minute, I forgot something.
  • Susan: What?
  • Oliver Rose: Barbara!
  • [shuts the door in front of her nose]

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