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"There are a lot of movies about breaking up and divorce. Some of them end with the couple rediscovering each other and falling in love all over again, and some of them have the two exes battling it out and maybe even killing each other before the movie&amp;#039;s over (The War of the Roses comes to mind). Movie couples aren&amp;#039;t much like real-life, unfortunately. People rarely make that big of a change that quickly, old problems resurface to keep you from living happily ever after, and last time I checked, murdering your ex only gets you a prison sentence instead of a glamorous ending. I&amp;#039;m an avid movie watcher (as I&amp;#039;m sure you&amp;#039;ve guessed) and when I saw Entertainment Weekly&amp;#039;s list of Divorce Movies, I knew I just had to add a few of my own. If I had to pick my favorite divorced couple in any movie, it would be Ed Harris and Susan Sarandon in &amp;quot;Stepmom.&amp;quot; The movie was cheesy, but well-acted, and I liked that they didn&amp;#039;t have Ed and Susan&amp;#039;s characters being overly-familiar or overly-combative. They had a few heated words here and there, but you could see they were based on years of degraded communication between them. When the going got tough (and if you saw the movie, you know what I mean), they pulled together for the good of their kids. I wish it could always work out like that. Another good ex-relationship was in the movie &amp;quot;Night At The Museum.&amp;quot; Larry and his ex-wife are still platonically friendly, and he has a cordial (if secretly a bit resentful) relationship with her new husband, who&amp;#039;s played as a nice guy instead of a jerk for a change. Larry doesn&amp;#039;t try to keep his kid from having a great relationship with his new step-father either. On top of that, Larry and his ex talk through their parenting concerns and work together to provide stability for their son. The final movie I&amp;#039;d add to the list is a little more recent: &amp;quot;The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel,&amp;quot; which is an amazing movie that really has nothing to do with divorce until near the very end. Without giving anything away, I&amp;#039;ll say that someone&amp;#039;s loyalty to their spouse is tested, and even though the spouse is a thoroughly unlikeable character, that loyalty stays firm until they come to a mutual decision. Even in the face of temptation, even with a mountain of misery in their marriage, they resolved first, then moved on. That&amp;#039;s how it should be done, and it&amp;#039;s refreshing to see in a movie in this day and age. What about you? Do you have any favorite divorce or break-up movies? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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