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Something's Gotta GiveStarring Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton, Frances McDormand, Amanda
Peet, Keanu Reeves, Jon Favreau |
IN SHORT: Your patience, for one thing. [Rated PG-13 for sexual content, brief nudity and strong language. 133 minutes]
When it is funny, which is occasionally, Nancy Meyers' Something's Gotta Give is very funny. When it has nothing better to do, which is at least three times in the course of the film, it sits its characters down at a table and plays a soundtrack song over whatever unimportant dialog is mixed way down low. When it is not wasting its energy and our time, desperately trying to figure out how to wrap itself up and get those end credits rolling, it provides a story about 63 year old single dude named Harry Sanborn (Jack Nicholson), a man Hugh Hefner woud truly admire since he dates, and discards as frequently, bunny quality femmes all under the age of 30. Harry has begun, made successful and sold off more businesses than most people have worked for. With success comes great wealth and an abundance of fine young things looking for the big score. That "score" thing goes both way. Currently, Harry rides herd over the hottest hip hop record label around and is about to herd the young and lovely Marin (Amanda Peet) into the bedroom of her mom's supposed-to-be-empty Hamptons abode. (For the trivia minded, it's located at 29 Daniels Lane in one of those towns we can't even afford to look up on a road map in the off season). The unexpected arrival of mom Erica Barry (Diane Keaton) and aunt Zoe (Frances McDormand) put a temporary kibosh on the emergence of Harry's "Mr. Midnight" (hint hint) and anything R-rated.
Yeah, well, mom's a liberal but, before anything carnal can get in synch with the Marvin Gaye music that will eventually start playing on the bedroo's stereo, Harry's heart starts throbbing and Marin's vocal chords do same. His throb is not from lust. It's from pain. Hers is a cry for help. One quck 911 to the local hospital and cardiologist Dr. Julian Mercer (Keanu Reeves) enters the picture, placing Erica smack dab in the middle of potential affairs with a much older and a much younger guy. Harry doesn't want to stay in the hospital. Doc Mercer insists he stay local until granted permission to move about. Erica winds up playing nurse, which thrills her no end.
Have we mentioned that Erica is a fabulously successful playwright, which is why Doc Mercer is such a drooling fanboy? Or that she has been struggling with a writer's block ever since husband David Klein (Paul Michael Glaser) became her ex?
And in less than an hour, most of the folk under thirty began streaming for the exits. It wasn't the brief flashes of nudity on the part of both stars that did it. It was a plodding romance that forced the men out, and the ones who weren't solo got a lot of wrist action checking their watches; women seem to have a greater tolerance for the romantic stuff. Let's be honest folks. Is a good viagra joke going to make any sense to a virile 20something? How about the same lame viagra joke once it's been written into the screenplay a second and third time? Of course, there is still the unconsummated affaiir between Marin and Harry to be dealt with in some manner. Both old folks have their own emotional chips to deal with, and they're dealt with properly with some of writer Meyers most focussed material.
, Harry's assistant Leo (Jon Favreau) (his number two assistant [Tanya] is much prettier but we don't have a credit to give or a phone number to call...) Marin's dad and Erica's her
On average, a first run movie ticket will run you Ten Bucks. Were Cranky able to set his own price to Something's Gotta Give, he would have paid . . .
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