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Looking for Mr. Midnight
The reason Something's Gotta Give was so well received has more to do with the pitiful quality of the average Hollywood film than its own merits. When you have fine actors, pretty locations, and a romantic fantasy you overlook the insubstantial story and unbelievable ending. Something's Gotta Give with Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton is pleasant, but not as good as As Good as It Gets, where Nicholson and Helen Hunt play sometimes unpleasant people with real problems who make a way out of loneliness for themselves. In Something's Gotta Give the way out falls into their laps without either having to make a hard choice. As another of Keaton's directors said, it's a "Hollywood Ending."

Jack Nicholson is Harry, a rich sixty-three-year-old who dates only young women and takes Viagra to help Mr. Midnight get ready. When Harry's latest young thing brings him to her mother's house in the Hamptons, Harry (1) has a heart attack, (2) finds he can love someone older and not need Viagra, and (3) has to decide whether to change his life. Just as Harry realizes the good things about older women, Erica (Keaton) discovers the joys of younger men. Harry's doctor (Keanu Reeves) falls for Erica's body and her mind.

The music is great, from hip-hop to Marvin Gaye. Frances McDormand singing and moving to "Let's Get It On" (which could have been the title of the movie) is one of the highlights of the film. In fact, McDormand has already made a more interesting version of this story, centered on a successful woman who plays the field. Check out Laurel Canyon.

Simply horrendous
Is this film meant to be uplifting? You've got to be kidding. In what universe would it be considered acceptable for a successful woman to choose the puffy, lecherous commitmentphobe who beds her, doesn't call and humiliates her, over the loving, cute doctor who happens to be 20 years her junior? Is it considered to be "mature" to be with a man your age who neglects you and is incapable of forming a serious relationship? And oh, by the way, you met the old guy when he was dating YOUR DAUGHTER. Ecccchhh. And to nominate Diane Keaton for this role, which is basically a yuppie Annie Hall retread, for an Academy Award is simply a joke. See this movie at your peril.

Great duo!
Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton have wonderful chemistry in this delightful romantic comedy. Instead of focusing on the younger generation, this movie spotlights two senior citizens who truly light up the screen. Nicholson plays a man who has spent his life dating younger women and who is not willing to commit to any of them. He looks forward to a weekend with his latest squeeze, when her mother (Keaton) walks in and puts a damper on the romance. When he has a heart attack, the affair is put on hold indefinitely and Keaton ends up with the job of nursing Nicholson back to health. An added complication occurs when Nicholson's 30-something Dr. also begins to fall for Keaton. There are plenty of laughs, for instance when they wake up from their first night of love-making and neither of them can read their watch to see what time it is. This is a fun, "feel-good" movie which allows two great stars to strut their stuff.

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