The Ref
Attending marriage counseling on Christmas Eve is bad enough, but to return home and be held hostage by a thief that just robbed a neighboring house, now that’s the ultimate cherry on top. However when the thief decides to play marriage counselor to the couple and their never-ending bickering, Ted Demme’s The Ref becomes a black comedy that is any on-the-rocks, married couple’s worst nightmare. As the quarreling wife and husband, Judy Davis and Kevin Spacey are as blunt as they are witty, while Denis Leary fully embraces his trademark, sneering comic persona to full effect.
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