Irreconcilable Differences

“They've got everything... including a 10 year old daughter who's suing them for divorce.”

In a Los Angeles courtroom, a nine-year-old girl is suing her parents for the right to leave them. Casey Brodsky (Drew Barrymore) is the daughter of Albert (Ryan O'Neal), a filmmaker, and Lucy (Shelley Long), whose marriage the film tracks forward and back across the years. Charles Shyer holds on Casey, small and upright, in the middle of two adults who can't look at her.