Nicole (Scarlett Johansson) and Charlie (Adam Driver) are married with a child, with their individual careers pulling them apart in different directions and they choose to get a divorce.
A Mediator asks them to repeat what they saw in each other when they fell in love, and in course of doing that Nicole Scarlett) walks out in a huff. Though they had initially decided that they won’t involve lawyers to keep the separation non-messy, but first Nicole and then Charlie (Adam Driver) get their lawyers and the legal sparks start to fly.

Nicole’s lawver Nora Fanshaw (Laura Dern in another stupendous role) is a firebrand and the divorce gets messier with accusations and slanders flying around thick and fast. The lawyers gun for each others money and share of custody, while the child Henry, watches in helpless dismay.

The movie ends, holding out hope for all dysfunctional marriages – that even two good people may not be good in marriage but the marriage may be good for them!
Particularly in today’s date and age when men and women are looking for their identities more and more and in establishing those identities, women are deciding the course of their lives. Careers, aspirations etc. sometimes take them on a trajectory different from that of their partners and gone are the days when the wives demurely followed their husbands wherever they might lead them, and rightlv so.

If the husband is a successful director and the wife is a successful actor, they both have the same right to decide which way their lives would go and not unfairly expect only the wife to give up her aspirations in life to tend to home and hearth.
The most outstanding part of this movie are the acting nous displayed by all the characters, it has to be seen to be believed. Even Nicole’s son looks an absolute natural in the role, and plays the part to perfection.