2025
Certificate 15 – DARK COMEDY
Director: Jay Roach
With Benedict Cumberbatch, Olivia Colman
Runtime: 105 mins
Life seems easy for picture-perfect couple Ivy (Olivia Colman) and Theo (Benedict Cumberbatch): successful careers, a loving marriage, great kids. But beneath the façade of their supposed ideal life, a storm is brewing – as Theo’s career nosedives while Ivy’s own ambitions take off, a tinderbox of fierce competition and hidden resentment ignites. The Roses is a reimagining of the 1989 classic film The War of the Roses, based on the novel by Warren Adler.
WHY WATCH THIS FILM? It’s two great British actors at the top of their game.
“Colman and Cumberbatch are sublimely well matched. We adore them as a couple almost as much as we enjoy them as the bitterest of foes.” The Observer
“A smart, wild, entertaining mix of droll British humour and glossy Hollywood film-making.” BBC
“Screenwriter Tony McNamara’s dazzling script is thespian heaven for stars Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch.” The Australian