Divorce American Style
Director: Bud Yorkin
Genre: Satire, Comedy, Black comedy, Domestic Comedy
Year: 1967
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language
Starring: Jean Simmons, Jason Robards, Dick Van Dyke, Debbie Reynolds, Tim Matheson, Joe Flynn, Van Johnson, Martin Gabel, Lee Grant, Eileen Brennan, Shelley Berman
Divorce American Style is a 1967 American satirical comedy film directed by Bud Yorkin.
Norman Lear produced the film and wrote the script based on a story by Robert Kaufman. It focuses on a married couple that opts for divorce when counseling fails to help them resolve their various problems, and the problems presented by divorced people by alimony.
Dick Van Dyke, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Simmons, Jason Robards and Van Johnson are the film's stars. The title is an homage to Divorce Italian Style (1961).
After seventeen years of marriage, affluent Los Angeles suburban couple Richard Harmon (Van Dyke) and his wife Barbara (Reynolds) seem to have it all, but they're constantly bickering. When they discover they no longer can communicate even to argue, they make an effort to salvage their relationship through counseling. But after catching each other emptying their joint bank accounts, they file for divorce.
Richard finds himself living in a small apartment and trying to survive on $87.30 a week. His take-home income has been cut to ribbons by high alimony. Richard meets a recently divorced man, Nelson Downes (Robards), who introduces him to ex-wife Nancy (Simmons). Nelson wants to marry
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