In the grand theater of cinematic storms, Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman glide in like two seasoned fencers, their smiles gleaming brighter than their concealed daggers. Imagine Warren Adler’s The War of the Roses, but viewed through a real-life lens of cracked champagne flutes and narration by someone who finds marital collapse rather entertaining. Here, charm has sharp teeth, and every gesture carries the weight of carefully disguised sabotage. These two do not just step into the spotlight but sharpen it to a point.

If marriages are chess matches, Theo and Ivy Rose play with poisoned pawns and a burning board. Every move is a masterstroke of charm wrapped around the hilt of a dagger. But who plays them?

The cast of The Roses is a guestlist for marital mayhem

Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman lead The Roses, a blisteringly witty update of Danny DeVito’s 1989 dark comedy classic adaptation of the book. They are Theo and Ivy Rose: a married couple so picture-perfect at first glance that even their enemies would send congratulatory flowers—until the petals start wilting and thorns emerge. The stingingly adorable cast is rounded up by Andy Samberg, Allison Janney, Kate McKinnon, and other mischief-makers.

The film is quite tellingly helmed by Jay Roach with Tony McNamara’s script lacing every line with acid-tipped charm.

Plot of The Roses: A playbook to burning a house down without matches

The plot of The Roses drips with the giddy malevolence of modern domestic warfare. Theo, an architect whose career is quietly collapsing, finds himself in the crosshairs of Ivy, a chef whose success is skyrocketing like a smug soufflé. What begins as mild dinner-table shade soon mutates into full-scale chaos, the kind where fruit is weaponised, bathrooms become fortresses, and every argument plays like a slapstick sonnet. The emotional damage is cathartic; the physical carnage? oddly beautiful.

After all the flying fruit, bathtub sieges, and verbal shrapnel, there is only one date left standing: a day when the carnage finally spills from the screen to the box office.

When will The Roses finally bloom…or boom?

The calendars have been marked for August 29, 2025. The exact date when The Roses will burst, or perhaps detonate, onto the screens, offering audiences a front-row seat to the theatre of beautiful ruin. It is a comedy about love’s collapse that refuses to be polite about it, a carnivorous bouquet served with a smirk. And if you think you have seen a bad breakup before, wait until you watch two of Britain’s finest turn mutual destruction into a work of art.

Jay Roach and Tony McNamara’s collaboration pulls no punches. The humor teeters on the knife-edge between absurd and brutal, as if The Favourite and Meet the Parents, with now its fourth in sight, decided to elope and burn their marital home for sport. Every role in the ensemble feels like another well-aimed blow in a war where witty dialogue is a blade, and there is no Geneva Convention for matrimony. The sheer relish with which Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch spar will make you wonder if peace was ever even the goal.

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