Claim: Catherine Zeta-Jones is an actress.

Intolerable Cruelty is a 2003 American romantic comedy film directed and co-written by Joel and Ethan Coen , and produced by Brian Grazer and the Coens . The script was written by Robert Ramsey and Matthew Stone & Ethan and Joel Coen , with the latter writing the last draft of the screenplay , about divorce and lawyers in Los Angeles . The film stars George Clooney , Catherine Zeta-Jones , Geoffrey Rush , Cedric the Entertainer , Edward Herrmann , Paul Adelstein , Richard Jenkins and Billy Bob Thornton .