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This last also had the advantage that it made it easier to avoid either one having to be the 'villain' in the previous divorce, and for some, makes them easier to like.
It's practically a given that either the ex-wife or ex-husband has a [[Disposable
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* ''[[Kiss Me Kate]]''
* ''[[His Girl Friday]]'' is one of the classic examples.
* ''[[The Philadelphia Story]]'' and its musical update ''High Society''
* ''[[
* ''[[Mary, Mary]]''
* In ''[[My Favorite Wife]],'' the husband ([[Cary Grant]]) isn't divorced, but wrongly believes his long-missing wife to be dead and is all set to commit bigamy.
** The same goes for its remake starring Doris Day, ''Move Over Darling''.
* ''[[The Parent Trap (1961 film)|The Parent Trap]]'', although there it is the kids working to get them back together.
* ''[[Sweet Home Alabama]],'' even though they weren't technically divorced.
* Some endings of ''[[Silent Hill 2]]'' ({{spoiler|"In Water" and "Rebirth", also possibly "Leave"}}) are somewhat like a horror version of this trope, considering the couple in question didn't seperate through divorce...
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* ''[[Twister]]'', the divorce is in progress. Jo never signed the papers, so Bill tracks her down, dragging his current fiancee along. On their first meeting it takes the viewers about two seconds to realize that Bill and Jo are going to get back together.
* ''[[Curtains]]'' has Georgia and Aaron, songwriters and former married couple. They get back together with some suberb acting by some of the other cast members, who ''wanted'' the two back together.
* Subverted in ''[[
** Interestingly, [[Executive Meddling]] at one point tried to change the ending to play this trope straight only for Robin Williams and Sally Field to convince them otherwise, claiming it would not only be unrealistic, but could potentially cause false hope in children of divorced parents who saw the film.
* ''[[
* ''[[Hey Arnold!]]'' played with this trope in one episode, with Coach Jack Wittenberg remarrying Tish Wittenberg (helped muchly by Arnold's matchmaking prowess).
* ''It's Complicated'' comes close to this.
* ''[[Jude the Obscure]]'' is something of a ''tragedy'' of remarriage. (It also works the other way round: {{spoiler|they both get married to different people, then live together, get divorced from their respective spouses, then separate and get married to their previous spouses again}}).
* ''McClintock!'' is this in [[The Western|Western]] form.
* ''[[Liar Liar]],'' though a little more realistic to be fair, since the scene where Max's parents are interested in each other again is about a year after the main plot has been resolved.
* Subverted in ''[[The Auteur]]''. Arturo eventually accepts that Fiona won't return to him, because of his "highly addictive personality" and "insanely jealous nature"; but she forgives him his past, and they do manage to become friends again.
* ''[[The Radioland Murders]]'' has this as a major subplot - it's mainly a zany romp through, oddly enough, radio shows and serial killing.
* On ''[[
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