{"id":9878,"date":"2014-08-07T21:04:13","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T19:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pinartarhan.com\/blog\/?p=9878"},"modified":"2014-08-17T21:45:32","modified_gmt":"2014-08-17T19:45:32","slug":"somethings-gotta-give-starring-diane-keaton-jack-nicholson-keanu-reeves-how-a-romantic-comedy-ought-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinartarhan.com\/blog\/somethings-gotta-give-starring-diane-keaton-jack-nicholson-keanu-reeves-how-a-romantic-comedy-ought-to-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Something\u2019s Gotta Give starring Diane Keaton, Jack Nicholson & Keanu Reeves: How A Romantic Comedy Ought to Be"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I\u2019m a huge fan of writer\/director Nancy Meyers. It started with What Women Want<\/a> (starring Mel Gibson<\/a> and Helen Hunt), a blast of a romantic comedy with fantasy elements. It\u2019s one of my favorite romantic comedies of all time, though if I had to talk percentages that movie is 80% hilarity and 20% romance. Something\u2019s Gotta Give is a bit more romantic, though the balance is probably more 60% comedy and 40% romance.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s safe to call Meyers a superstar when it comes to romcom writer\/directors. She writes great stories, directs while remaining honest to her characters and casts A-listers. She usually rocks the box office too. Other star-clad and hilarious Nancy Meyers romcoms include It\u2019s Complicated<\/a> (with Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin) and The Holiday<\/a> (with Jude Law, Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet and Jack Black.) Both are recommended, though of these two, I prefer The Holiday. Something\u2019s Gotta Give Premise:<\/strong> Erica Barry (Diane Keaton) is a beautiful, accomplished and divorced playwright with a house in the Hamptons. Harry Sanborn (Jack Nicholson) is a 60-something infamous rich bachelor with a reputation for not dating women over 30. Normally, these two would never meet.<\/p>\n

But when Erica\u2019s daughter Marin (Amanda Peet) brings Harry to her mother\u2019s house for a weekend getaway, Erica also happens to be there with her sister Zoe (Frances McDormand), and hilarity ensues: Erica pretty much approves of nothing about him, and Zoe sees this as a fascinating opportunity to study the relationships of men and women, and why men tend to go for much younger women. Harry can\u2019t wait to get out of there, but when he has a heart attack right before they can have sex, he is rushed to the nearest hospital where his doctor turns out to be the gorgeous, younger Julian (Keanu Reeves<\/a>). All three women are pretty smitten by how nice and pretty he is, but he is taken by Erica, whose plays he is a fan of.<\/p>\n

Harry is in a rush to go back to the city, but with his health at risk, Julian only allows him to stay at a nearby place for a couple of weeks, which to Erica\u2019s horror, means her house. With everyone back to the city for work, she\u2019s left alone with Harry, and quickly discovers he is a lot more fun, charming and intelligent than she gave him credit for. And to Harry\u2019s dismay, she\u2019s the most interesting and fun woman he has ever met. With a growing friendship and attraction, they will have to deal with their feelings for each other, as well as where Marin, Julian, and their outlooks on romance stand on all of this. After all, Harry doesn\u2019t know how to be a boyfriend, and Julian is the ultimate catch. What does a woman have to do, especially with a play to write?<\/p>\n