{"id":634,"date":"2019-05-08T08:40:12","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T08:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carandclassic.co.uk\/magazine\/?p=634"},"modified":"2024-09-12T10:25:01","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T09:25:01","slug":"the-cars-the-star-war-of-the-roses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carandclassic.com\/magazine\/the-cars-the-star-war-of-the-roses\/","title":{"rendered":"The Car\u2019s the Star \u2013 War of the Roses"},"content":{"rendered":"

1989\u2019s <\/span>War of the Roses<\/span><\/a> was not the tale of the battle between Lancashire and Yorkshire. Instead, it was Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner essentially trying to kill each other. Oh, and there was some car-content too, as we discover here by looking at the ill-fated Morgan Plus 4.<\/span><\/p>\n

Barbara (Kathleen Turner) and Oliver Rose (Michael Douglas) have been married for seventeen happy years. They\u2019ve built an exquisite life for themselves, the crowning glory of which is their impressive mansion home. But there\u2019s the thing, Barbara, faced with an empty house now the kids have left home, has lost her sense of purpose. She ponders a new life, one without Oliver, and as she does, she comes to like the picture her mind\u2019s eye paints. And with that, she asks for a divorce.<\/span><\/p>\n