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Entertainment & Sports

Apr. 7, 2023

Stream it Tonight! Marriage Story (2019)

The movie amply illustrates the emotional wreckage that the adversarial divorce process leaves in its wake.

Michael Asimow

Professor
UCLA School of Law

Email: asimow@law.ucla.edu

Michael is Dean's Executive professor of law at Santa Clara Law School, teaching contracts as well as law and popular culture.

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Paul Bergman

Professor Emeritus
UCLA School of Law

Email: bergman@law.ucla.edu

Paul continues teaching evidence.

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Why watch? This film unflinchingly dramatizes the gritty realities of a failing marriage and costly and destructive divorce litigation.

The marriage of Charlie (Adam Driver) and Nicole (Scarlet Johansson) is breaking up. Charlie is a successful director who is deeply immersed in the NY theater world. Nicole is a talented actress who has agreed to star in a TV series to be filmed in Los Angeles. Nicole wants to move to LA with the co...

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