It's Complicated
Directed by:
Nancy MeyersScreenplay:
Nancy MeyersCinematography:
John TollCast:
Alec Baldwin, Meryl Streep, Steve Martin, John Krasinski, Lake Bell, Zoe Kazan, Rita Wilson, Daryl Sabara, Hunter Parrish, Caitlin Fitzgerald, Mary Kay Place (more)VOD (3)
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Jane (Meryl Streep) is the mother of three grown-up children, owns a thriving catering business and, after ten years of divorce, enjoys an easy relationship with her ex-husband, attorney Jake (Alec Baldwin). But when Jane and Jake find themselves out of town for their son's college graduation, an innocent meal together takes a turn for the complicated. With Jake remarried to the much younger Agness (Lake Bell), Jane is now, of all things, the other woman. Drawn into this already-tangled web is Adam (Steve Martin), the architect hired to redesign Jane's kitchen, who finds himself attracted to Jane despite the fact that he is still recovering from a recent divorce of his own. (Universal Pictures UK)
(more)Reviews (3)
This pleasant chill-out comedy doesn’t need a single original idea, because it has Meryl Streep and Alec Baldwin. And they are brilliant.
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When Meryl Streep sang along with ABBA, it was understandable. But when Meyers forces her to sing with her squeaky girlfriends during discussions about seized up vaginas, to fall on her knees before the quivering flab of Sir Baldwin or to pretend that the almost seventy-year-old Steve Martin is “Mr. Big", that is really overdoing it a bit. Quite a little bit.
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Cougar Town has taught me that 40 is the new 20. It's Complicated taught me that even life after 50 is not a big deal. Yes, it's a Meryl movie, but it's primarily a women's movie, and I don't like Steve Martin. But that sexy, pot-bellied Alec Baldwin, that's something for me. Plus it's a fundamentally funny, erotic, immoral, and entertaining little film. :D And it doesn't even have to be sex with an ex.
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