Successful Wife and Her Failure of a Husband Turn Their Divorce Into a Brutal War

The film opens in a therapist's office where Theo and Ivy Rose are attending couples counseling. The therapist gives them a simple exercise, lists 10 things they love about each other. Theo goes first and says he would rather live with Ivy than a wolf, then adds that she has a somewhat pleasing head shape but only from a distance. He mentions vague memories of her once being witty and that she smells nice occasionally before admitting he couldn't think of anything else. Ivy says his breath smells like an anchovy that's been on the piss all night, his laugh sounds like a dying dog, and that he's a bad father, terrible lover, and a complete loser. She ends by summing him up in one word, calling him the C-word. The therapist thinks they are hopeless as a couple, while Theo and Ivy laugh her off before leaving. Then a flashback shows the day Theo and Ivy first met. Theo, who is an architect, is at a restaurant in London celebrating a new building with his colleagues, but he's frustrated that parts of his design, like the garden balconies, were removed. He leaves the table and wanders into the kitchen, where he meets Ivy, who is working as a chef. After some flirtation, she lets him try the fish that she was preparing, which he says is delicious. Ivy mentions her plans to move her cooking aspirations to America, and Theo considers joining her. She tells him they haven't even slept together yet, but he says that they are minutes away from that. They then proceed to do it in the freezer. Ten years later, Theo and Ivy are married with two children, Hattie and Roy, now living in California. Theo is preparing for the opening of a maritime museum he designed. Though there are concerns about the large sale structure, he insisted on adding to the roof. Meanwhile, Ivy has been a stay-at-home mom, raising the kids in her own unconventional way, often letting them indulge in overly elaborate desserts. She prepares British icon treats for them, but the sugar overload quickly backfires when Hattie ends up vomiting. Theo sees this as irresponsible parenting, and the two start bickering. But the tension quickly shifts when Ivy reveals she's made a cake shaped like Theo's museum. It immediately improves his mood, and the family gathers to eat it together. The cake contains raspberries, which Ivy is severely allergic to. Still, she takes a bite, and Theo prepares the epinephrine shot for her. Even through the reaction, she insists the cake was worth it. After that, Theo takes Ivy out to this run-down seaside property and surprises her with an idea. This could be her restaurant. He tells her she shouldn't have to give up on being a chef just because life got busy. She's been cooking incredible food for years, and he doesn't want that dream to just fade away. Soon after, Ivy opens the restaurant, names it We've Got Crabs, and hires Jane as her sous chef and Jeffrey as a waiter. At first, though, the place isn't exactly thriving. During one slow lunch, Theo picks her up to meet with their American couple friends at a shooting range. After that, they all go back to Barry and Amy's home for dinner. But things get uncomfortable as another friend criticizes Theo's museum, calling it basic and half-assed. At that point, Ivy has had enough. She leaves the room and calls Theo, signaling that they need to get out of there. Theo hangs up the phone and delivers the most ridiculous excuse possible, saying that years ago in England they helped an escaped convict, and now he's shown up at their house with a bag full of drugs and a sword. Which is basically the plot of Great Expectations. It barely makes sense, but it works. They use it as their exit and leave, laughing about how terrible the lie was. Later, Theo is having drinks with Barry across the street from the museum as a massive storm rolls in. At the same time, Ivy is at the restaurant when things suddenly get chaotic. People start flooding in to take shelter, and among them is a well-known food critic, which puts her under pressure. She calls Theo, and he tells her to stay calm and just cook like she normally does. Outside, the storm gets worse. The sail on the museum starts bending in the wind, but Theo keeps insisting it's fine. As people begin filming, he starts losing it, shouting at them to stop and trying to downplay what's happening. But moments later, the structure gives out. The sail collapses and brings down part of the building, destroying the roof of the museum. The next day, Theo is left humiliated after a video of the collapse goes viral. In the footage, he's seen shouting at people, filming, flipping them off, and throwing things around. The clip spreads everywhere, turning into memes and reels, making him a public joke. At the same time, Ivy's restaurant has the complete opposite luck. The food critic gives it a glowing review, and suddenly the place is packed and booked for months. Theo takes the kids out to lunch at the restaurant, but on the way, he gets a call from his boss telling him he's been fired. He pulls over and has a massive breakdown in front of the kids before continuing on. When they arrive, he tells Ivy what happened. She's sympathetic but practical, suggesting that she can take over as the breadwinner for now while he stays home with the kids until he figures things out. Ivy's business quickly takes off, and she starts hiring more staff. Her success keeps growing, and she's eventually asked to be on the cover of New York Magazine. She jokes about whether it's going to be nude, but says she'll do it anyway. At home, Theo goes in the complete opposite direction. He becomes strict with the kids, cutting out sugar entirely, making them sign contracts, and pushing them into intense exercise routines. He even throws out their snacks, proudly announcing that daddy's here. When Ivy comes home one night and offers them ice cream, the kids refuse, saying they signed a contract not to eat sugar. Ivy is pissed that Theo made them do that, and Theo suggests they should just have a three-hour circular argument that leads nowhere. As Ivy's success grows, Theo becomes resentful. She's flying around, sipping champagne on jets, while he's stuck at home dealing with the kids' laundry and lice. When Ivy comes back from a trip, Theo is in a bad mood. She tries to make it up to him by bringing his favorite donuts, and he apologizes and admits he's jealous. But then Ivy's assistant texts her about the donuts, revealing they were actually for the restaurant. That immediately sets Theo off again. Later, they host a gathering at their house. By now, the kids are extremely disciplined and have even won medals, thanks to Theo's intense training. But their friends, especially Barry and Amy, can clearly see the growing resentment between them. Theo's frustration over Ivy's success and his own failure is obvious. After the party, Ivy and Theo talk about how, according to everyone, they hate each other. Theo admits that he feels a sporadic, dizzying hatred toward her. Ivy responds that sometimes she thinks that if Charles Manson and Theo both invited her to a picnic, she'd choose Charlie. Despite that, they both admit they miss each other and want to do something about it. So they decide to take a trip to New York City together, hoping it will reset things between them. On the flight, while Ivy is asleep, Theo runs into one of their friends, who immediately brings up the museum collapse and even jokes about the viral video. Theo pretends to brush it off, but it gets under his skin and he starts drinking. By the time they land, he's completely drunk. When a flight attendant throws away a napkin he had been sketching on, he makes a scene. Ivy wakes up to the chaos and has to deal with him as they're escorted off the plane. Theo spends most of his time hungover at the hotel, while Ivy goes out on her own. She ends up drinking as well, enjoying the attention and the freedom of being around people who actually admire her work. Later, Ivy blames herself a little for how things have turned out between them. But instead of letting him stay stuck, she encourages him to focus on the dream house he's always wanted to build. Over the next three years, Ivy's business keeps expanding, opening more locations across California, while Theo gets closer to finishing the dream house. Hattie and Roy are accepted into a school in Miami on sports scholarships, showing just how intense Theo's training has been. But by this point, Theo and Ivy are constantly hostile toward each other. At one point, Theo irritates Ivy while talking about the house, and she deliberately eats a bowl of raspberries. She lets herself go into anaphylactic shock just to force him to stop talking, leaving him no choice but to give her the EpiPen. Later, during a run with Theo and the kids, Ivy is upset to learn that Hattie went to Theo instead of her when she got her first period. Theo tells her she shouldn't expect something else. She's never around. After the run, Hattie tells her mom that both of them need help. This leads them back to the same therapy session from the beginning of the movie. Soon after, the kids leave for Miami, and the house is finally completed. To celebrate, Theo and Ivy invite their friends over for a housewarming dinner. But even before they sit down, tension starts building. At the table, things get worse. Theo and Ivy start throwing crude insults at each other, but their guests mistake it for clever banter. Sally and Rory even try to copy them, but it just comes off as mean and cruel. Eventually, Ivy snaps. She blasts death metal through the smart home system and then throws cake at the guests, completely killing the mood. After everyone leaves, Theo and Ivy are left alone, and the argument finally explodes into everything they've been holding back. The next day, Theo goes for a run and comes across a beached whale on the shore. He manages to stop a few drivers, and together they push the whale back into the ocean. When he gets home, he doesn't say anything about it first. Ivy later finds out and asks him why he didn't tell her. Theo admits he didn't want her to ruin the moment for him. Ivy is intrigued and encourages him to share what he felt. As he opens up, describing how emotional and almost spiritual the experience was, she gets excited, thinking this might be a turning point for him. But then he reveals that he's no longer happy in their marriage, and that he wants a divorce. Theo hires Barry as his lawyer, while Ivy shows up with Eleanor, a ruthless divorce attorney who brings her Rottweiler into the meeting, claiming it's her emotional support dog. Eleanor straight up insults Theo, saying the fact that Ivy ever slept with him should be enough for her to get everything. She tells him to take a small payout and disappear. Theo says he just wants the house and is willing to give Ivy everything else, but Ivy refuses. The meeting goes nowhere, and it ends with both sides more determined than ever to fight each other. Hattie and Roy even call them and say they support the divorce, admitting they always knew it would end like this. At this point, Theo and Ivy have completely devolved into childish bickering and are now openly at war. Theo insists the house is his because he designed and built it, while Ivy fires back that she paid for it, and neither of them is willing to back down. Theo starts retaliating by flambéing Ivy's prized cookbooks. Ivy hits back by burning the expensive Irish moss he was obsessed with using for the house. The fight escalates fast, as Ivy throws two live crabs into the bathtub while Theo is in it. Theo retaliates by locking Ivy in her bedroom using the smart system, blasting polka music on a loop at full volume and telling her he'll turn it down if she signs papers giving him the house. Instead, she burns the agreement. He then starts sabotaging her business, cancelling fish orders and replacing them with junk ingredients. Ivy responds by creating an AI video of Theo smoking crack and claiming he intentionally designed the building to collapse. Not to be outdone, Theo posts a video of himself grating a wart from his foot into food at the restaurant and reveals he's also slipped psychedelic mushrooms into the dishes, effectively destroying her business. Theo gets blacklisted from every architecture firm, while Ivy's restaurant is shut down for a health inspection. Still fighting, Theo gives her a piece of cake containing raspberries. As she starts choking, he forces her to sign papers giving him the house in exchange for the EpiPen. She signs and he saves her, only for him to realize she signed the name Zendaya. After that, Theo goes to destroy Ivy's prize stove, but she comes back with a gun and starts firing at him. The situation spirals into full chaos as the two fight their way through the house, both trying to hurt the other. But eventually, they admit that neither of them actually wanted the divorce and despite everything, they still love each other. Just as the two are settling down, a gas leak from the broken stove starts to spread through their house. Unaware of what's about to happen, Theo tells the smart system to play their song and light the fire. Then there's a white flash. The End. Thanks for watching. Don't forget to like and subscribe. And until next time,