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Movie Reviews: “It’s Complicated”
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Like other Nancy Meyers-directed movies (Something's Gotta Give, What Women Want, The Holiday), It's Complicated's target audience is women over 40 -- an underserved market to be sure, but one that has managed to buy up a lot of movie tickets. The Chicago Sun-Times's Roger Ebert, who suggests that It's Complicated will likely draw a big crowd from "gal pals taking a movie break after returning Christmas presents," notes that "not everybody is in a mood for Avatar." But Lou Lumenick in the New York Post suggests that the movie is really "Avatar for women of a certain age, with blond highlights replacing blue skin." Manohla Dargis in the New York Times, who has chastised Hollywood's major studios for overlooking female directors, heaps much praise on Meyers, while at the same time observing that her "vision can be maddeningly narrow and not only because her movies take place in cosseted, largely white worlds where the help is discreetly out of view." Most of the critics reviewing It's Complicated are women and at times sound as if they're leading a cheering section. For example, Linda Barnard writes in the Toronto Star: "A rarity among Hollywood movies, where senior sex is usually either an aberration or a punchline, It's Complicated really isn't. It's just entertaining. Let's hope the studios are listening." Lisa Kennedy in the Denver Post agrees, writing, "Making us laugh in telling ways, especially in a time-worn genre like the romantic comedy, can be tough. There's a reason for the saying 'Death is easy, comedy is hard.'" Most male critics seem equally charmed. "It's Complicated isn't; it's pretty simple," writes Michael Phillips in the Chicago Tribune. "It's simply a good time, a relatively adult and easygoing conveyance for three ace performers of a certain age, working through a few comic machinations created by writer-director Nancy Meyers.
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Review: It's Complicated
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Writer/director Nancy Meyers (What Women Want, The Holiday) brings another romantic comedy to the screen with It's Complicated featuring veteran actors Meryl Streep, Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin. This film about love and divorce puts a spin on the Other Woman story, and will leave most older women either shaking their head in disbelief or hopeful for re-kindled love.
Jane (Streep) is the mother of three grown kids, and ten years after their divorce is on amicable terms with her ex-husband, attorney Jake (Baldwin). He is remarried to Agness (Lake Bell), a much younger woman who had been Jake's mistress. Jane has hit her stride as owner of a bakery/cafe, and looking to expand the house she'd moved into after the divorce.
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Movie Review: It's Complicated (2009)
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Meryl Streep and Alec Baldwin in It's Complicated
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In my book Nancy Meyers is more hit than miss. Of her five directorial outings I have only missed The Parent Trap and would say Something's Gotta Give is the one I liked the least out of the bunch and I still liked that one. I particularly enjoyed The Holiday and What Women Want is a satisfying diversion. That said, I enjoyed It's Complicated more than all of them. Meryl Streep continually proves she is to never be doubted and Alec Baldwin carries over his award-winning "30 Rock" persona to feature film with absolute ease. Baldwin and Streep play off each other as if they had been doing it for years.
At the center of the story is Jane (Streep) a divorced mother of three with a highly successful Santa Barbara bakery. Jake (Baldwin) is her lawyer ex-husband who is
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Fourteen Questions for It’s Complicated’s Nancy Meyers
20 December 2009 5:14 PM, PST
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During a few scenes in It’s Complicated, the latest comedy from writer-director Nancy Meyers (What Women Want, Something’s Gotta Give), I laughed so hard that tears came out of my eyes. Meyers is an unabashedly commercial filmmaker of mainstream glossy comedies for women. Her clout comes from being both writer and director. She makes her movies her way (with a nod to Hollywood’s classic screwball comedies), and has final cut. It’s Complicated throws ex-spouses Meryl Streep and Alex Baldwin into an extra-marital affair that is sexy and hilarious. Baldwin’s Oscar co-host Steve Martin plays Streep’s other love interest, as her two 20-something daughters are caught in …
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The Notable Films of 2010: Part One
15 December 2009 7:47 AM, PST
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After such success with this last year, today comes the first in a multi-chapter look at the various cinematic releases hitting the U.S. in 2010.
Each 'Volume' contains brief descriptions and editorial opinion/analysis of around 25-30 films, and at present it's looking to run around nine volumes in length.
Expect the remaining ones to go up between now and the first official weekend of releases on January 8th.
13
Opens: 2010
Cast: Jason Statham, Alexander Skarsgard, Mickey Rourke, Ray Winstone, 50 Cent
Director: Géla Babluani
Summary: A remake of 2005 French thriller "13 (Tzameti)". A naive young man assumes a dead man's identity and finds himself embroiled in an underground world of power, violence, and chance where men gamble behind closed doors on the lives of other men.
Analysis: Remakes are very common, the same director remaking his own film in English is rarer but still not unheard of ("Funny Games," "Bangkok Dangerous," "The
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The Notable Films of 2010: Part One
15 December 2009 7:47 AM, PST
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After such success with this last year, today comes the first in a multi-chapter look at the various cinematic releases hitting the U.S. in 2010.
Each 'Volume' contains brief descriptions and editorial opinion/analysis of around 25-30 films, and at present it's looking to run around nine volumes in length.
Expect the remaining ones to go up between now and the first official weekend of releases on January 8th.
13
Opens: 2010
Cast: Jason Statham, Alexander Skarsgard, Mickey Rourke, Ray Winstone, 50 Cent
Director: Géla Babluani
Summary: A remake of 2005 French thriller "13 (Tzameti)". A naive young man assumes a dead man's identity and finds himself embroiled in an underground world of power, violence, and chance where men gamble behind closed doors on the lives of other men.
Analysis: Remakes are very common, the same director remaking his own film in English is rarer but still not unheard of ("Funny Games," "Bangkok Dangerous," "The
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Duane Adler Set To 'Jump Around'
11 December 2009 6:54 AM, PST
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Duane Adler ("Step Up," "Save the Last Dance") will direct and rework the screenplay for teen dance drama "Jump Around" at Wind Dancer Productions, reports The Hollywood Reporter.
Film follows a group of teenagers who form a double-dutch jump-roping team at their high school and compete for a spot in an international competition. Double Dutch this year became an official varsity sport in New York City schools.
Matt Williams ("What Women Want") and Judd Payne ("Passengers") will produce. Adler's script "Venice Beach" is in development at Fox with Ne-Yo attached to star.
Firdosi Wharton wrote the originally screenplay.
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Win passes to @gandthew’s advanced screening of It’S Complicated
10 December 2009 1:06 PM, PST
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Special Advance Screening In Dallas!
7:30 Pm / Tuesday, December 15
In Theaters Christmas Day
Writer/director Nancy Meyers (What Women Want, Something’s Gotta Give, The Holiday) directs Meryl Streep, Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin in It’s Complicated, a comedy about love, divorce and everything in between. Jane (Streep) is the mother of three grown kids, owns a thriving Santa Barbara bakery/restaurant and has—after a decade of divorce—an amicable relationship with her ex-husband, attorney Jake (Baldwin). But when Jane and Jake find themselves out of town for their son’s college graduation, things start to get complicated. An innocent meal together turns into the unimaginable—an affair. With Jake remarried to the much younger Agness (Lake Bell), Jane is now, of all things, the other woman. Caught in the middle of their renewed romance is Adam (Martin), an architect hired to remodel Jane’s kitchen. Healing from a divorce of his own,
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"Step Up" Scribe To "Jump Around"
10 December 2009 5:54 AM, PST
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Duane Adler ("Step Up," "Save the Last Dance") will direct and rework the screenplay for teen dance drama "Jump Around" at Wind Dancer Productions says The Hollywood Reporter.
Firdosi Wharton's script follows a group of teenagers who form a double-dutch jump-roping team at their high school and compete for a spot in an international competition.
Matt Williams ("What Women Want") and Judd Payne ("Passengers") will produce. Adler's script "Venice Beach" is in development at Fox with Ne-Yo attached to star.
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"Step Up" Scribe To "Jump Around"
10 December 2009 5:54 AM, PST
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Duane Adler ("Step Up," "Save the Last Dance") will direct and rework the screenplay for teen dance drama "Jump Around" at Wind Dancer Productions says The Hollywood Reporter.
Firdosi Wharton's script follows a group of teenagers who form a double-dutch jump-roping team at their high school and compete for a spot in an international competition.
Matt Williams ("What Women Want") and Judd Payne ("Passengers") will produce. Adler's script "Venice Beach" is in development at Fox with Ne-Yo attached to star.
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- Garth Franklin
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Skipping To Hit The Big Screen
10 December 2009 12:57 AM, PST
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With Dance Flick and the Fame remake effectively hammering the last nails in the dance movie's coffin (we’re watching you, Footloose remake – don’t be rubbish), producers are heading back to youth sports. With Drew Barrymore’s roller derby flick Whip It getting great reviews across the pond, and everything from American football to, erm, synchronised swimming chalking up the silver-screen treatment this decade, it's now the turn of skipping in Jump Around.Not just any old skipping mind you – double-dutch jump-roping (we think it’s a slightly more refined version of "Bumper Car Bumper Car"), which officially became an officially-recognised school sport in New York this year. Duane Adler, who co-wrote hit dance flicks Step Up and Save The Last Dance is on the books to rewrite and direct Jump Around, a screenplay based on that sport, with What Women Want producer Matt Williams on board too.
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It’S Complicated | Special Advance Screening Giveaway!
9 December 2009 1:06 PM, PST
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Universal Pictures
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invite you to enter for your chance to win passes to a Special Advance Screening in Austin, TX of It’S Complicated.
Screening Is On Tuesday December, 15 @ 7:30pm
Opens Nationwide Christmas Day
Cast: Meryl Streep, Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin
Written and Directed by: Nancy Meyers
Produced by: Nancy Meyers, Scott Rudin
Writer/director Nancy Meyers (What Women Want, Something's Gotta Give, The Holiday) directs Meryl Streep, Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin in It's Complicated, a comedy about love, divorce and everything in between.
Jane (Streep) is the mother of three grown kids, owns a thriving Santa Barbara bakery/restaurant and has--after a decade of divorce--an amicable relationship with her ex-husband, attorney Jake (Baldwin). But when Jane and Jake find themselves out of town for their son's college graduation, things start to get complicated. An innocent meal together turns into the unimaginable--an affair.
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'It's Complicated' - Nine 9 clips as well as new images from the comedy!
8 December 2009 5:00 PM, PST
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We have nine clips from Universal Pictures' "It's Complicated," starring Meryl Streep, Steve Martin, Alec Baldwin, John Krasinski, Lake Bell, Daryl Sabara and Rita Wilson.
Nancy Meyers directs from her own screenplay as well as producing alongside Scott Rudin.
Writer/director Nancy Meyers (What Women Want, Something’s Gotta Give, The Holiday) directs Meryl Streep, Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin in It’s Complicated, a comedy about love, divorce and everything in between. Jane (Streep) is the mother of three grown kids, owns a thriving Santa Barbara bakery/restaurant and has—after a decade of divorce—an amicable relationship with her ex-husband, attorney Jake (Baldwin). But when Jane and Jake find themselves out of town for their son’s college graduation, things start to get complicated. An innocent meal together turns into the unimaginable—an affair. With Jake remarried to the much younger Agness (Lake Bell), Jane is now,
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Win a trip to New York for the World Premiere of 'It's Complicated'
17 November 2009 9:45 AM, PST
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Enter the “It's Complicated Premiere Sweepstakes" and you'll have a chance to win a trip to New York City for the world premiere of It’s Complicated!
Writer/director Nancy Meyers (What Women Want, Something’s Gotta Give, The Holiday) directs Meryl Streep, Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin in It’s Complicated, a comedy about love, divorce and everything in between. Jane (Streep) is the mother of three grown kids, owns a thriving Santa Barbara bakery/restaurant and has—after a decade of divorce—an amicable relationship with her ex-husband, attorney Jake (Baldwin). But when Jane and Jake find themselves out of town for their son’s college graduation, things start to get complicated. An innocent meal together turns into the unimaginable—an affair.
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New It’s Complicated Trailer and Poster: Meryl Streep and Alec Baldwin
7 November 2009 10:03 AM, PST
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Universal has just debuted a new trailer and poster for romantic comedy “It’s Complicated“
Writer/director Nancy Meyers (What Women Want, Something’s Gotta Give, The Holiday) directs Meryl Streep, Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin in” It’s Complicated,” a comedy about love, divorce and everything in between.
Jane (Streep) is the mother of three grown kids, owns a thriving Santa Barbara bakery/restaurant and has—after a decade of divorce—an amicable relationship with her ex-husband, attorney Jake (Baldwin). But when Jane and Jake find themselves out of town for their son’s college graduation, things start to get complicated. An innocent meal together turns into the unimaginable—an affair. With Jake remarried to the much younger Agness (Lake Bell), Jane is now, of all things, the other woman. Caught in the middle of their renewed romance is Adam (Martin), an architect hired to remodel Jane’s kitchen.
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It’s Complicated Trailer: Meryl Streep and Alec Baldwin Get It On
5 November 2009 6:22 PM, PST
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Alec Baldwin is randomly crying. Meryl Streep is a little bit of a slut. Steve Martin, still crazy. And writer/director Nancy Meyers -- purveyor of such estrogen-infused classics as What Women Want, Something's Gotta Give and The Holiday -- is back again for another round of romcom with It's Complicated. This time, she's taking the story of a divorced woman (Streep) who starts having a fling with her fast-talking ex-husband (Baldwin), even though he's now married to a younger woman (Lake Bell) and she's got a thing with her architect (Steve Martin).
It's all very derivative -- the kind of romantic comedy you take with a dose of promethazine (via suppository, of course) for your arthritis. You know, the ultimate sequel to Meyers' Mel Gibson collaboration, What Old People Want. Alas, there is no doubt that Alec Baldwin will be his stock brand of hilarious and Meryl Streep will be her stock brand of graceful, classy
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Mel Gibson names his new child
3 November 2009 4:02 AM, PST
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Mel Gibson has named his new child.
The 'What Women Want' star - whose girlfriend
Oksana Grigorieva gave birth on Friday (30.10.09) - has announced the
couple plan to call the infant Lucia.
A representative for Mel confirmed: "Oksana Grigorieva
and Mel Gibson welcomed the arrival of a baby girl named Lucia on Friday, Oct.
30, 2009, at an undisclosed hospital in Los Angeles."
Mel, 53, took a break from filming 'The Beaver'
while Oksana was in hospital and was given a rapturous welcome when he returned
to the set on Monday (02.11.09).
A source on set said: "Everyone sang 'For He's A Jolly
Good Fellow' and he blushed."
A friend added: "Everything is great! They couldn't be
happier. Everyone's healthy and thrilled. He loves it!"
Although this is their first child together, both Mel and
Oksana, 39, are already parents.
The 'Braveheart' star has six sons and a
daughter
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Mel Gibson names baby
3 November 2009 2:01 AM, PST
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Mel Gibson has named his new child. The 'What Women Want' star - whose girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva gave birth on Friday (30.10.09) - has announced the couple plan to call the infant Lucia. A representative for Mel confirmed: "Oksana Grigorieva and Mel Gibson welcomed the arrival of a baby girl named Lucia on Friday, Oct. 30, 2009, at an undisclosed hospital in Los Angeles." Mel, 53, took a break from filming 'The Beaver' while Oksana was in hospital and was given a rapturous welcome when he returned to the set on Monday (02.11.09). A source on set said: "Everyone sang 'For He's A Jolly Good Fellow' and he blushed." A friend added: "Everything is great! They couldn't be
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Mel Gibson Names New Daughter Lucia
2 November 2009 10:36 PM, PST
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Mel Gibson has named his new child. The "What Women Want" star - whose girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva gave birth on Friday - has announced the couple plan to call the infant Lucia.
A representative for Mel confirmed: "Oksana Grigorieva and Mel Gibson welcomed the arrival of a baby girl named Lucia on Friday, Oct. 30, 2009, at an undisclosed hospital in Los Angeles."
Mel, 53, took a break from filming "The Beaver" while Oksana was in hospital and was given a rapturous welcome when he returned to the set on Monday.
A source on set said: "Everyone sang 'For He's A Jolly Good Fellow' and he blushed."
A friend added: "Everything is great! They couldn't be happier. Everyone's healthy and thrilled. He loves it!"
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Mel Gibson's Scotland fears
31 October 2009 2:03 AM, PDT
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Mel Gibson thinks Scotland would make him get drunk.
Mel - a recovering alcoholic who was arrested for driving under the influence (DUI) in 1984 and 2006 - said he hasn't been back to the UK country since shooting 'Braveheart' in 1995 because he fears it would have a damaging effect on him .
He said: "I haven't gone back since because I'm afraid. I'd never get sober for one thing, and to have to run around in a dress... it's cold up there!"
Despite his reluctance to return, the 53-year-old 'What Women Want'
star admits Scotland still holds a special place in his heart.
He added: "On the way to the premiere in Scotland the crowd was 50-deep
and I couldn't believe there was so much feeling and fervour about the
subject. It hit a chord, definitely."
Earlier this month, Mel saw his 2006 conviction for misdemeanour driving under the
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