There's a thin line between love and hate. And it gets even thinner when dotted and two parties are signing on it after many, many months. We're writing, of course, about divorce. And for the characters in the movies below, whether they're moving on and dating after divorce or getting back together for a reconciliation, divorce is their new normal. Explored through lenses of humor, social and gender politics, and even with the Disney musical treatment, our roundup of the best movies about divorce, has a film for every viewer. There's The Parent Trap and Mrs. Doubtfire for kids and folks young at heart, Kramer vs. Kramer for a gut-punch custody battle that doesn't pick a winner, The First Wives Club, and Marriage Story. Though each their own, every movie on this list shares a singular message: You will get through this.
As its title suggests, this one is a courtroom drama that explores the story behind the picture-perfect family portrait. When Joanna (Meryl Streep) resurfaces after divorcing Ted (Dustin Hoffman) and wants custody of their young son, he says no dice. The film then takes its audience through a trial and the tribulations and complexities of human kind, resulting in a solid drama that understandably earned five Oscars in 1980.
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Remember back to the late '80s when Danny DeVito was doing more acting in comedies like Throw Momma from the Train and Twins. He was directing them too. Good thing, because otherwise, we wouldn't have this dark divorce comedy starring a bitterly funny battle of the sexes fighting over who gets the house. In one corner you have Kathleen Turner as housewife Barbara Rose, and in the other, Michael Douglas as attorney Oliver Rose. Ding, ding, let's go to war.
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Stick with us: Meryl Streep plays a woman who divorced her cheating husband, played by Alec Baldwin, who married the woman he cheated with, played by Lake Bell, who has no idea her husband is having an affair with his ex-wife, played by Meryl Streep. You guessed it—it's complicated. But it all makes for a feel-good, hilarious romp through love and relationships, both old and new, from the genius mind of Nancy Meyers.
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The late, great Robin Williams goes incognito under nylons and prosthetics to play Euphegenia Doubtfire, the stern yet compassionate British nanny to three children who just so happen to be his own. On the brink of divorce, he's initiated the ploy to spend more time with his kids and find a way to reconcile with his wife, played by Sally Field, before the dashing distraction—her old flame played by Pierce Brosnan—sets up shop in his old life.
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Author Terry McMillan penned something special when she conceived her quartet of female protagonists, Savannah, Bernadine, Gloria, and Robin. All women who were wronged by the men they trusted, the group comes to life through an all-star cast: Whitney Houston, Angela Bassett, Loretta Devine, and Lela Rochon, respectively. But we're especially interested in Bernie's divorce storyline for this roundup. Hell hath no fury like a woman with a gas can an open flame.
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Steve Carell headlines a packed megawatt cast—Emma Stone, Kevin Bacon, Julianne Moore, Marisa Tomei—as a Reebok-wearing, near-divorce underdog, trying to reconcile with his wife, who seeks manhood advice from the stud trying to date his daughter. And that A-list Casanova is none other than Ryan Gosling. Fun fact: There's an homage for Dirty Dancing fans in this one.
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Gloria Bell, starring a radiant Julianne Moore as a liberated divorcee who experiences a bit of a second-life sexual awakening, is the American remake of the Spanish original titled simply Gloria. And normally, we'd recommend sticking with the original. It stars a brilliant Paulina García in the lead; you'll love it. But because writer/director Sebastián Lelio is behind both films, we say, choose your player and just go with it.
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For better or worse, kids of divorce want one thing: for their parents to get back together. Exhibit A: Disney's original The Parent Trap, starring two versions of Hayley Mills as twin sisters who swap places and hatch a plan to reunite their folks. You could skip a few decades and queue up the modernized Lindsey Lohan adaptation, but if you did, you'd miss out on the scene-stealing Maureen O'Hara.
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In a subtle yet wholly heartwarming comedy from Nicole Holofcener, the mind behind some of your favorite humor including Parks and Rec, James Gandolfini and Julia Louis-Dreyfus play companions who find love after divorce. More specifically, Dreyfus plays a masseuse who finds out her new teddy bear is actually the ex-husband that one of her clients is always ragging on.
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A declaration of freedom with a feminist through line, this blast from the '90s stars Diane Keaton, Bette Midler, and Goldie Hawn as a trio of manipulated, done-wrong divorcees who will have their revenge. Revisit the classic before Family Jewels, the unofficial sequel, finds theaters.
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Told in dual narratives before and after saying "I do," Blue Valentine is a portrait of a toxic relationship that crumbles under the weight of marriage, ushering its lead actors—Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams—to the union's only exit: divorce. It's not a feel-good watch; we won't sugarcoat that. But sometimes, it's necessary to wallow in the aftermath of an unraveled romance.
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Dating apps aren't everything. There's always the option of your software operating system. At least, that was the case in the Spike Jonze thought-provoking techno-romance about a guy, a girl, and a virtual assistant. The guy is Oscar-winner Joaquin Phoenix, who plays Theodore, a lonely writer going through a divorce. The girl is Rooney Mara, the other half of said divorce (and his partner in real life.) And the virtual assistant is Samantha, voiced by Scarlett Johansson, the intelligent computer there to satisfy Theodore's every desire.
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The Best Foreign Language Film of the Year in 2012, A Separation is an Iranian drama that explores not only the fault lines in a fractured relationship but the explosive aftermath of the conflict that happens when Islamic rule doesn't align with human emotion. This gist of the story is this: Stay married in Tehran and care for an ailing family member. Or divorce and seek a better life abroad with your daughter. Though simply laid out here, the complexities of this film cannot be understated.
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Did anyone else make bizarre guttural sounds from the back of the theater during this 1998 classic? No? Just us. Kay. Divorce, moving on, a blended family—it's all on the dinner table in this domestic dramedy starring Hollywood heavyweights Julia Roberts and Susan Sarandon: Sarandon as the perfect mom; Roberts as the younger, cooler stepmom she's terrified will take her place.
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