Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch team up in The Roses, a modern black-comedy adaptation of Warren Adler's The War of the Roses and the 1989 film. Tony McNamara updates the screenplay with contemporary sharpness. The story follows English couple Theo, an ambitious architect, and Ivy, a restaurateur, whose careers diverge after marriage and relocation to the US. Theo's nautical museum on the San Francisco coast is destroyed by a storm while Ivy's crab restaurant earns acclaim. Although set largely in California, many scenes were filmed in the UK, with Devonshire locations standing in for Ivy's seaside eatery.
The plot centres around an English couple grappling with their relationship while their professional trajectories head in opposing directions. The pair meet in London, in one of London's best restaurants, Hide in Mayfair, where (co-founder of the Michelin-starred spot, Ollie Dabbous, makes a cameo about half way through the movie), where Theo (Cumberbatch), who plays a high-flying architecture about to make it big, is having a business meeting
They hit it off and got married soon after, before heading to the US to raise a family. This is where things start to go a bit pear-shaped. Theo's project, a nautical-inspired museum on the San Francisco coast, gets destroyed in a biblical storm, while simultaneously, Ivy's restaurant (hilariously named 'We've Got Crabs'), gets a rave review. We follow the ups and downs of their relationship as they grapple with their new roles,
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