Something's Gotta Give
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Director: Nancy Meyers
Starring: Diane Keaton, Frances McDormand, Jack Nicholson, Keanu Reeves, Amanda Peet
Synopsis: Nancy Myers may not make art but she does seem to be behind some pretty popular titles like Father of the Bride 2 and Baby Boom as a scribe and directed Mel Gibson in What Women Want.
Now she returns to the directors chair with the big cast and potentially big box-office to tell what seems like a simple tale. Keanu Reeves plays a doctor looking after Jack Nicholson. Nicholson's character suffers a heart attack at the house of his young girlfriend's mother (Keaton). In fact, in a nice little spin, both Reeves and Nicholson find themselves vying for Keaton's attention leaving Amanda Peet in the dust.
While there, the elder man falls in love with the mom (Keaton). The doctor also finds he has an attraction to her, despite their age difference.
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Something's Gotta Give Review
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Review: You have to question who really is the lead here. Is it Harry Sanborn or is it really Jack Nicholson playing himself? Towards the end when the man leans over a bridge, begins to verge on tears and says 'Well look who gets to be the girl' that I lean towards the role being more Jack than Harry. Either way, Something's Gotta Give is a worthy watch.
"Some say I'm an expert on the younger woman - since I've been dating them for 40 years."
Maybe it is Jack being Jack but the fact that director Meyer's puts him up against the equally comparable Diane Keaton (as playwright Erica Barry) keeps the film on the rails rather than flying off on wild tangents.
The story is your basic romantic comedy - an unlikely duo meet and fall in love but it is the dialogue that flies between the two that makes this flick stand out above some of the recent dreck that has hit the big screen in the name of Romantic Comedy (I am looking at you Alex and Emma).
I would say that almost 90% of the film's humour comes from the characters as they utilize their age, lifestyles, choices and wisdom that a character in their 20's could never contain. Even when the film slips towards old Woody Allen/Neil Simon territory using Erica's play within the movie that details all of the characters private details what could be a trite moment becomes another launching point for plot as the two characters separate until their final moments.
There are a few little slips in logic, not the least of which is casting Keanu Reeves as a doctor. (This next part sort of goes against my rule of discussing a film's ending but since it is a Hollywood romantic ending you are a dolt if you didn't think Nicholson and Keaton would be ending up with one another). The other thing is Keanu (as Dr. Julian Mercer) falls for the witty playwright as well and when it seems he has long won out and is slated to be her husband he soon disappears in an off-screen break up. So much for fighting for a woman's love. The young man just seems to shrug off the loss.
Which is what I think of the weaker points, shrug them off and enjoy the film that is here. 3.5 stars out of 5.
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