Something’s Gotta Give 2003

     Harry Sanborn is an aging music industry executive with a fondness for younger women.  Marin is his latest trophy girlfriend.  Everything gets a little awkward when Harry suffers a heart attack at the home of Marin’s mother Erica.  Erica and her doctor step in to take care of Harry.  Is is possible that Harry might begin to like Erica, a woman more near his own age??

     Jack Nicholson plays a notorious bachelor who always “escaped the noose” of marriage.  Diane Keaton plays a divorcee.  In real life it is the other way around?  Nicholson is a divorce and Keaton is a bachelorette.  The interior of Harry’s house is the same townhouse used as Miranda Priestly’s house in The Devil Wears Prada 2006 with Meryl Streep.  The American poster for this film featured large pictures of Nicholson and Keaton.  In Japan the poster also included a large picture of Keanu Reeves, presumably because his popularity there at the time?  

     Jack Nicholson sings La Vie En Rose during the end credits.  The film is at the R end of the PG-13 range with very strong language, brief nudity, a bare behind, explicit sexual references and situations.  There are jokes about Viagra and menopause.  Characters smoke, drink and one gets tipsy.  There are also some tense situations.  Entertaining but nothing new!!  3 1/2* (I liked this movie)

128 min, Comedy directed and written by Nancy Meyers with Jack Nicholson, Diane Keaton, Keanu Reeves, Frances McDormand, Amanda Peet, Jon Favreau, Paul Michael Glaser, Rachel Ticotin.

Note:  Imdb 6.7* out of 10* with 110,488 reviews, Rotten Tomatoes 72% with 171 critics 69% with 208,023 user ratings, empire online 3* out of 5*, Roger Ebert 3 1/2*, Common Sense Media Nell Minow, 4*, age 15+ 3* violence, 5* sex, 5* language, 3* drinking, drugs & smoking, reelviews.net 2 1/2*, Amazon 4.8* out of 5* with 10,869 reviews, VUDU 4 1/2* with 12,539 reviews.

Special Note:  20th Century Fox declined to make this film because they thought the leads were too old!!  Erica kisses Harry in the scenes outside the restaurant in New York City.  This was an improvisation by Diane Keaton.  Writer and director Nancy Meyers liked it so much that she decided to use it in the final cut of the movie.