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The new movie The Roses lets Olivia Coleman and Benedict Cumberbatch go big in a darkly satirical

story of a married couple whose love curdles into deep and abiding hatred.

It's a fresh retelling of the novel The War of the Roses, which spawned a hit movie in the late

1980s. I'm Stephen Thompson. Today we are talking about The Roses on Pop Culture Happy Hour from

NPR. Joining us today is my co-host, Linda Holmes. Hey, Linda. Hey, buddy. Also with us is Waylon Wong. She's the co-host of NPR's Daily Economics Podcast, The Indicator from Planet Money. Hey, Waylon. Hello. Good to have you here. Also with us is NPR Culture Desk correspondent, Chloe Veltman. Hey, Chloe. Hi Hi there, Stephen. It is great to have you all here.

So The Roses is based on Warren Adler's 1981 novel The War of the Roses, which tells the story of a

couple who meet, fall in and out of love, and blow up in mutually self-destructive fashion.

The novel spawned a hit film with Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner,

and now the story has been rebooted with a fresh cast. Aside from the central premise,

the Roses changes the story pretty radically. In this case, Benedict Cumberbatch plays Theo Rose,

an architect who endures a professional humiliation that derails his career,

while Olivia Coleman places wife Ivy, whose dreams of running her own restaurant take off in a big way.

So Theo refocuses his life on parenting their two children, while Ivy finances Theo's work on their dream house. But as their love curdles into resentment and then hatred, well, things get dark.

Yeah, it's Japanese vodka infused with Tarragon, so it adds a bit of bitterness.

Ivy likes to leave a little bit of herself in everything she does.

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