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MPAA Rating: NR Content Advisory: Questionable for Children Movie Release: 1967 DVD Release: 01/06/2004 Format: DVD - Closed Captioned Audio Tracks: English Subtitles: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 49 mins Studio: Columbia TriStar Members Wishing: 7 Genres: Comedy, Domestic Comedy

An unhappy couple discover breaking up really is hard to do in this satiric comedy. Richard Harmon (Dick Van Dyke) and his wife, Barbara (Debbie Reynolds), are a typical married couple in American Suburbia -- which is to say they're not very happy with each other. After 15 years together, Richard and Barbara decide they've reached the end of their collective rope, and after several rounds of marriage counseling proves fruitless, they file for divorce. Between negotiating child custody, alimony, and finding new places to live, Richard and Barbara discover divorce isn't appreciably easier than being married; meanwhile, Richard makes a new friend in Nelson Downes (Jason Robards), a fellow divorcé who would love nothing more than for Richard to marry his former wife, Nancy (Jean Simmons), and take away the burden of alimony. Also featuring Van Johnson, Lee Grant, Shelley Berman, and Eileen Brennan in her first film role, Divorce American Style earned an Oscar nomination for Norman Lear and Robert Kaufman's original screenplay. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Dick Van Dyke - Richard Harmon
Debbie Reynolds - Barbara Harmon
Jason Robards, Jr. - Nelson Downes
Jean Simmons - Nancy Downes
Van Johnson - Al Yearling

Norman Lear's 1967 dark comedy Divorce American Style comes to DVD from Columbia TriStar Home Video. Presented with a standard full-frame color transfer. The English soundtrack is in Dolby Digital Stereo. The only special features are theatrical trailers, but it is the first time this Academy Award-nominated film has been available on DVD. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide