Danny DeVito
3 titles · american genre
Mean comedies, which is to say comedies about people behaving badly toward each other. A married couple fight over the house in The War of the Roses until the divorce becomes a war. Matilda is about a brilliant little girl whose parents neither understand nor like her. In Death to Smoochy, a corrupt children's TV star is fired and replaced by a squeaky-clean purple rhino.
Signature
- Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas at war (The War of the Roses).
- Cruel adults and the children or rivals who outlast them.
- Wide-angle lenses and exaggerated framing.
- DeVito often on screen as a sly supporting player.
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