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Summary: Loved it!
Review: This movie was so cute! It was the quintessential romantic comedy. After viewing it, I was surprised that it was PG-13 and won't my 13 year old daughter see it until she is much older. But all in all, it was a fun movie to watch and fairly clean (language wise).
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Summary: Clever and Witty!
Review: Great film. Diane Keaton certainly steals the show in this one, still looking Dynamite and exuding that girlish vulnerability that makes her desirable. What a charmer--and that impassioned kiss she gives Nicholson, like lovers who can't get enough of each other.The movie very quickly touched on the gender issues and cliches i.e. men vs. women, youth and aging, and then moved straight into the meat of the story...all the facets of falling head-over-heels in love with someon. I especially loved honest truth expressed by that fabulous line Diane's character imparts to her daughter, "Honey, do you really think you can outsmart getting hurt?" The message seems simple: you cannot hide from love forever. Get over yourself and enjoy it.
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Summary: A Fun Flick!
Review: Come on people....don't take it so seriously!! This was a fun movie with a FANTASTIC cast! Diane Keaton is my favorite actress and I loved her in this part! I thought the crying scene was hilarious (what it was intended to be) and if you have ever had your heart broken you also know it's not too far fetched! I wanted to watch it again the very next day! It was a great little romantic comedy!
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Summary: Very good.
Review: Just knowing that actors like Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton work together just makes you feel sure to buy or see the movie.
As soon as this movie came out I bought it and found it very good. Their performances in this movie are flawless (Diane Keaton won a Golden Globe and was nominated for an Oscar) and I also think that they made the perfect couple for the story.
The story is about an ungry and solitary , successful writer (Keaton) that goes to her Hamptons house for the weekend with her sister without knowing that her doughther (Amanda Peet) was also going to be there with her much older boyfriend (Nicholson). They all stay in the house even tough Erica (Keaton) didn't like Harry (Nicholson) at all.
The story has a twist when Harry almost suffers a heart attack and has to stay in Erica's house because the doctor (Keanu Reeves) recommended Harry not to go back to New York.
And well to make this short and to not tell you the whole story so you can see it. Harry in Erica fall in love and Harry's doctor also falls in love with Erica and there are some other twists in the movie and make it very interesting.
I also like this movie because shows how "old" people can also fall in love in a very cool way.
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Summary: Pathetic!
Review: Sure, Diane Keaton's performance was noteworthy, and she is a highly-deserving Oscar best-actress contender. But what is the point with this film's unusually long running? SOMETHING'S GOTTA GIVE reminds me more of Spielberg's AI: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE than SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE.
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Summary: Heart warming comedy
Review: Diane Keaton shined and Jack Nicholson couldn't have been better. This was a truly original comedy that I would definitely watch again.
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Summary: SO HOLLYWOOD!
Review: I'll keep this short and simple! The movie would have gotten at least one more star, if: (A) The overlong crying episode from Diane Keaton would have been clipped. (B) The movie would have ended with Jack Nicholson crying on the bridge in Paris.
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Summary: Something's Gotta Give.....My Patience!
Review: I love Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton..Without too much explanations, they are simply two of the best actors/actresses of all time.
But watching Something's Gotta Give, I can not but feel sheer disappointment at the result that could have been far better with a tighter script and better director.
First of all the problem with the film is its length, over two hours long..
I never minded long films, (I sat through Bertoluccis's Novencetto more times that I can remember without being aware or bothering too much with its length)..But to sit through two hours of an overstretched story that is drenched in sugary sentimentality was tiring.
Moreover, the problem with the film is too many unnecessary characters. For instance the characters of Frances McDormand and Paul Michael Glazer, although credited as stars, were too shallow, appearing in a couple of scenes at most and added nothing to the plot.
Amanda's Peet character was also very badly written: we see here at first falling for the rich older guy without sleeping with him, inexplicably telling him when they arrived at her mother's house: are you glad we waited?? !!! Then towards the end of the film and in a space of six months,( movie time), we see her the image of domesticity, married and three months pregnant!!
Keanu Reeves also inexplicably falls head over heels with Keaton's character, and their short romance is probably the lamest and most confusing I have seen in a film.
Now I have to mention few words about the acting of Nicholson and Keaton:
Nancy Meyers manages to get so much over the top acting from them, and fails miserably to get the right performances.
The scenes I cringed in the most are the ones we see them crying, probably intended to add some bittersweet humor, but it became overbearingly annoying.
When Nicholson cried at the very end of About Schmidt, I connected totally with him, and it was genuinely bittersweet because his tears reflected his whole story, his loneliness, frustration and tinge of hope for the future, in short they had deep meaning. In Something's Gotta Give, even for a comedy, it was totally pointless.
Yet I must say that there were few laughs in the first half of the movie, and some promise of a sweet romantic movie, unfortunately lost in the second half, ruining the whole film.
Having said all that, the only aspect of the film which I liked, was how refreshing to see people above sixty, falling in love and having sex..not many films have shown that.
I now must mention, maybe two trivial observations,that did not help this negative review.
The first is the issue of smoking..We see Keaton as an anti smoking healthy woman, but at the end she lights up!! Probably intended to reflect how she has lightened up..but it was a very wrong message to give (and this is coming from a smoker!!) it is time filmmakers take some responsibility in this very sensitive issue.
The other observation revolves around a scene when just before making love, Nicholson asks Keaton about birth control pills, and she naturally answers,no menopause!! Although it is kind of a funny dialog, she should have asked him instead whether he had a condom or not!! him being as it has been over emphasized,a sexually promiscuous man..again this would have been a good message to send at a time when sexual transmitted diseases and especially AIDS are still very much with us, and more so with straight people..
So Something's Gotta Give is a missed opportunity to take advantage of the wealth of talent involved, and a proof that excellent actors are not enough to make a good movie.
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Summary: Just OK
Review: This movie seemd like one Hollywood Cliche after another. I thought Diane Keaton looked great, and one can never get enough of Jack Nicholson misbehaving. However, Keaton's character is the typical older woman who is bitter and resentful of men her age who show interest only in the younger woman. Her character never shows any such resentment towards those younger women themselves, nor does she acknowledge that she has actually raised a daughter who has turned into one of those younger women dating an older man. That sort of irony seems to be lost on Keaton's character. Perhaps she might admit, also, that if she had made better decisions about men when she was younger then she wouldn't be alone when she was older. Or perhaps the movie should just preach a tad bit less about how men are evil for liking younger women but how there's not a single thing wrong with younger women liking older men. These types of romantic comedies, and by type I mean totally unrealistic, idealistic misrepresentations, do more harm than good because they further exacerbate the already hugely problematic and offensive belief that anything wrong that's ever been done has been done so by a man. There were a few funny lines and themes such as when Nicholson's character was in the hospital discussing Viagra, but this movie could have been better.
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Summary: Irresistible Jack and Diane's Not Bad Either
Review: The movie begins with Jack Nicholson cavorting around with a younger girl, Amanda Peet. BUT, they did not have (sex!) mind you. They are staying at her family's weekend home in the Hamptons, and who walks in other than Mom, Diane Keaton, a famous playwright. Initially, she is convinced that Jack is a prowler, but he eventually convinces her otherwise. Jack suddenly has a cardiac arrest, and is cared for by Dr. Keanu Reeves. Diane and Amanda (her daughter) and Frances McDormand all go to the hospital to be by Jack's side. Dr. Keanu tells Jack he needs some TLC and to stay close to the hospital while recuperating. Since Amanda has to go back home to the city Diane ends up being Jack's nurse. In the meantime, Dr. Keanu has fallen for Ms. Diane, who is 20 years his senior. Initially, it seems that Jack and Diane can't stand each other. Eventually, their romantic feelings for each other become evident and Amanda breaks up with Jack, leaving the door open for Mom. After a Sunday full-o-intercourse, Diane is head over heels for Jack, who unfortunately can't get over his old "younger women only" ways. She decides over her better judgement to go for Keanu, but in the end, the fences are mended and true love prevails. Overall, a cute, tidy movie with some interesting twists. A bit predictable in that someone with Jack's history of chasing younger women leaves Diane out to dry. And, there is the also somewhat predictable fairytale ending when the two meet again, after he decides to no longer retain his little black books. Jack and Diane do have a great on-screen chemistry, however.
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