History YMMV / TheWarOfTheRoses

* QuestionableCasting: Voice actor Dan Castellaneta plays a character who never speaks. Perhaps a case of AwesomeDearBoy just to be in the movie.

** Oliver veers into this. While he is controlling and demeaning and just as pigheaded as Barbara, he maintains some degree of love and empathy for her, while Barbara, even in an early state, maintains a sociopathic and vindictive disinterest in anything but maintaining her house and image. [[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale That obvious reasons]] insist that he is pretty much always on the losing end against Barbara only exacerbates this. Not to mention the fact that Barbara arguably escalated the conflict from "merely" a loveless marriage falling apart to an increasingly violent, toxic feud by insisting that 'everything' be given to her after their divorce based off of a letter he hastily scribbled when he thought he was dying of a heart attack.

** Oliver veers into this. While he is controlling and demeaning and just as pigheaded as Barbara, he maintains some degree of love and empathy for her, while Barbara, even in an early state, maintains a sociopathic and vindictive disinterest in anything but maintaining her house and image and will genuinely commit any atrocity to get rid of Oliver, if not take his livelihood with it. [[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale That obvious reasons]] insist that he is pretty much always on the losing end against Barbara only exacerbates this.

* WTHCastingAgency: Voice actor Dan Castellaneta plays a character who never speaks. Perhaps a case of AwesomeDearBoy just to be in the movie.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Creator/DanCastellaneta plays the client of Danny [=DeVito=]'s character.

** Oliver veers into this. While he is controlling and demeaning and just as pigheaded as Barbara, he maintains some degree of love and empathy for her, while Barbara, even in an early state, maintains a sociopathic and vindictive disinterest in anything but maintaining her house and image, and will genuinely commit any atrocity to get rid of Oliver, if not take his livelihood with it. [[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale That obvious reasons]] insist that he is pretty much always on the losing end against Barbara only exacerbates this.

** Dan Castellaneta’s role in the movie is a character who doesn’t speak. Within a few years of playing Homer Simpson, he would be well known because of his voice.

* NightmareFuel: For anyone that just started a married relationship and are afraid about their marriage not working. out and falling apart nastily.

* TearJerker: As terrible as they were and even though everything that happened was en timely their own doing, it still sad watching the Roses go from a young couple who love each other dearly and who end up getting nearly everything they want to hating each other and destroying everything they have, even themselves.

** Oliver veers into this. While he is controlling and demeaning, and just as pig headed as Barbara, he maintains some degree of love and empathy for her, while Barbara, even in an early state, maintains a sociopathic and vindictive disinterest in anything but maintaining her house and image, and will genuinely commit any atrocity to get rid of Oliver, if not take his livelihood with it. [[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale That obvious reasons]] insist that he is pretty much always on the losing end against Barbara only exacerbate this.
*** That said, his refusal to leave the house and constant denial that she can't stand him is what drives Barbera over the edge and does a number on her mental health.

* TheWoobie: Oliver and Barbara's teenage kids. Put yourself in their shoes and imagine witnessing your parents' marriage not simply falling apart before your eyes, but their escalating conflict that eventually becomes outright physical violence. [[spoiler:And in the end both of them are left orphaned.]]

** Dan Castellaneta’s role in the movie is a character who doesn’t speak. Within a few years of playing Homer Simpson, making him well known ‘’because’’ of his voice.

* HilariousInHindsight: Dan Castellaneta plays the client of Danny [=DeVito=]'s character in the film. A few years later [=DeVito=] would voice [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E15OhBrotherWhereArtThou Homer's half-brother Herb]].

* RetroactiveRecognition: Creator/DanCastellaneta plays the client of Danny DeVito's character.

* NightmareFuel: For anyone that just started a married relationship.

* WTHCastingAgency: Voice actor Dan Castellaneta plays a character who never speaks.
* TheWoobie: Oliver and Barbara's kids. Put yourself in their shoes and imagine witnessing your parents' marriage not simply falling apart before your eyes, but their escalating conflict that eventually becomes outright physical violence. [[spoiler:And in the end both of them are left orphaned.]]

* TheWoobie: Oliver and Barbara's kids. Put yourself in their shoes and imagine witnessing your parent's marriage not simply falling apart before your eyes, but their escalating conflict that eventually becomes outright physical violence. [[spoiler: And in the end both of them are left orphaned.]]

* TheWoobie: Oliver and Barbara's kids. Put yourself in their shoes and imagine witnessing your parent's marriage not simply falling apart before your eyes, but their escalating conflict that eventually becomes outright physical violence.

* TheWoobie: Oliver and Barbara's kids. Put yourself in their shoes and imagine witnessing your parent's marriage falling apart before your eyes.

* WTHCastingAgency: Voice actor Dan Castellaneta plays a character who never speaks.

** Oliver veers into this. While he is controlling and demeaning, and just as pig headed as Barbara, he maintains some degree of love and empathy for her, while Barbara, even in an early state, maintains a sociopathic and vindictive disinterest in anything but maintaining her house and image, and will genuinely will commit any atrocity to get rid of Oliver. [[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale That obvious reasons]] insist that he is pretty much always on the losing end against Barbara only exacerbate this.

* WhatTheHellCastingAgency: Voice actor Dan Castellaneta plays a character who never speaks.

* HilariousInHindsight: Dan Castellaneta plays the client of Danny [=DeVito=]'s character in the film. A few years later [=DeVito=] would voice [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Homer's half-brother Herb]].