Intolerable Cruelty 🎥 2013 Movie Info

Plot Summary

Donovan Donaly, a TV soap opera producer, walks in on his wife Bonnie being intimate with an ex-boyfriend. He files for divorce, and she hires Miles Massey, a top divorce attorney and the inventor of the “Massey pre-nup”, a completely foolproof prenuptial agreement. Miles wins a large property settlement against Donaly, leaving him broke. Private investigator Gus Petch tails the wealthy and married Rex Rexroth on a drunken night out with a blonde. When they stop at a motel, he catches their tryst on video. Gus takes the video to Rex’s wife, Marylin Rexroth, a marriage-for-money predator. Marylin files for divorce, demanding a large property settlement.

Unable to afford a divorce settlement, Rex hires Miles to represent him. Marylin’s friend, serial divorcée Sarah Sorkin, warns her that Miles will be a dangerous opponent. Marylin and her lawyer, Freddy Bender, fail to reach an agreement with Miles and Rex. The bored Miles asks the fascinating Marylin to dinner, where they flirt. While they are out, Gus breaks into her house and copies her address book for Miles, who has his assistant search among the names for Marylin’s accomplice in arranging predatory marriages. In court, Marylin feigns an emotional breakdown over Rex’s infidelity, professing that she loved Rex unconditionally at first sight. Miles then calls “Puffy” Krauss von Espy, a Swiss hotel concierge.

Puffy testifies that Marylin asked him to find her a marriage target who was very rich, foolish, and a philanderer whom she could easily divorce, and that he pointed her to Rex. The divorce is granted, but she gets nothing. Seeking revenge against Miles, Marylin finds the now-penniless Donaly living on the street, still clutching his Emmy statuette, and offers him a chance to reclaim his lost glory. Soon after, she shows up at Miles’ office with her new fiancé, oil millionaire Howard D. Doyle.

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