Nature may abhor a vacuum, but it seems lawyers also abhor arenas of life untouched by their professional advice or air-quote helpfulness, which goes a long way to helping explain the $50 billion a year cottage industry in contentious divorce. A back-stiffening look at this sprawling problem—somewhat unsurprisingly unique to the United States in terms of its cost—director Joe Sorge’s documentary Divorce Corp. makes a persuasive case for the reform of family law court, and in particular an attempted decoupling of money from issues regarding parental custody and visitation rights....
- 1/13/2014
- Pastemagazine.com
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It’s a pleasure to see Ralph Fiennes, in the second film he’s directed, abandon his reticence to play Charles Dickens as an ebullient, laughing mensch a Victorian rock star whose literary celebrity masks his hunger for love. Dickens’ wife has borne him 10 children, but the two have little communion. So when he meets Nelly (Felicity Jones), a young actress with a yen for his novels, he falls for her but must keep their bond a secret. Alas, the impeccably shot film dribbles more than it builds. B- —Owen Gleiberman
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Divorce Corp.
The Invisible Woman
R, 1 Hr., 51 Mins.
It’s a pleasure to see Ralph Fiennes, in the second film he’s directed, abandon his reticence to play Charles Dickens as an ebullient, laughing mensch a Victorian rock star whose literary celebrity masks his hunger for love. Dickens’ wife has borne him 10 children, but the two have little communion. So when he meets Nelly (Felicity Jones), a young actress with a yen for his novels, he falls for her but must keep their bond a secret. Alas, the impeccably shot film dribbles more than it builds. B- —Owen Gleiberman
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Divorce Corp.
- 1/8/2014
- by EW staff
- EW - Inside Movies
Half of marriages in America end up in divorce. However, the average American divorce costs approximately $50,000.
The costs of divorces are skyrocketing through lawyers and court costs. And this divorce industry isn’t slowing down any time soon.
In the documentary “Divorce Corp,” the film looks into the growing, perhaps unconstitutional, business of family courts that costs America over $50 billion annually. The documentary looks at the lawyers, judges, mediators and even custody evaluators over their power and extortion in the unregulated system.
The film is narrated by Dr. Drew Pinsky (“Loveline”) and directed by Joe Sorge (“Six Little McGhees”).
Latino-Review had a telephone interview with Dr. Drew Pinsky about his role in the film and a full discussion about the divorce problems in America.
Read or listen to the interview below.
Latino-Review: How were you approached to narrate this project and why were you attracted to it?
Dr. Drew Pinsky...
The costs of divorces are skyrocketing through lawyers and court costs. And this divorce industry isn’t slowing down any time soon.
In the documentary “Divorce Corp,” the film looks into the growing, perhaps unconstitutional, business of family courts that costs America over $50 billion annually. The documentary looks at the lawyers, judges, mediators and even custody evaluators over their power and extortion in the unregulated system.
The film is narrated by Dr. Drew Pinsky (“Loveline”) and directed by Joe Sorge (“Six Little McGhees”).
Latino-Review had a telephone interview with Dr. Drew Pinsky about his role in the film and a full discussion about the divorce problems in America.
Read or listen to the interview below.
Latino-Review: How were you approached to narrate this project and why were you attracted to it?
Dr. Drew Pinsky...
- 1/8/2014
- by Gig Patta
- LRMonline.com
Marriage is an institution. Divorce is big business," is the keyed-up tagline of Divorce Corp, a documentary that pledges to unveil widespread corruption in America's family court system that enriches wayward lawyers and dishonorable judges while tearing families apart.
Most of the talking-head interviews in this film are convincing enough; indeed, despite the film's hyper but insubstantial presentation of its information, there likely is a story here.
But statistics are few and far between, a look at solutions from countries where divorce is supposedly more civil proves too thin to be useful, and, worst of all, the victims's stories are largely flimsy and one-sided.
The film's press materials tout director Joseph Sorge's extensive research, but fairly ...
Most of the talking-head interviews in this film are convincing enough; indeed, despite the film's hyper but insubstantial presentation of its information, there likely is a story here.
But statistics are few and far between, a look at solutions from countries where divorce is supposedly more civil proves too thin to be useful, and, worst of all, the victims's stories are largely flimsy and one-sided.
The film's press materials tout director Joseph Sorge's extensive research, but fairly ...
- 1/7/2014
- Village Voice
Title: Divorce Corp. Candor Entertainment Reviewed for Shockya by Harvey Karten. Data-based on RottenTomatoes.com Grade: B+ Director: Joe Sorge Screenwriter: Joe Sorge, James D. Scurlock, Philip Sternberg, Blake Harjes Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 12/7/13 Opens: January 10, 2014 In Shakespeare’s Henry VI, part 2, act 4, scene 2, Dick the Butcher says, “Let’s kill all the lawyers,” which, if anyone today has doubts, proves that the Bard was indeed a clever man. Dick and Jack Cade believe that all the lawyers do is to shuffle parchments around, inevitably hurting the common people, which means that human institutions haven’t changed since the play was written centuries back. Polls taken in [ Read More ]
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- 12/8/2013
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
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