Irreconcilable Differences opens with young 10-year-old client Casey Brodsky (Drew Barrrymore) being given advice concerning her emancipation from her parents, whom she has deemed unworthy to care for her any longer given their divorce and intense selfishness. But can she convince the judge of this?

Luckily, her parents Lucy (Shelley Long) and Albert (Ryan O'Neal) take the stand and in pleading for her to reconsider, give the courts plenty of reason to grant Casey's wish for freedom. The…