Something's Gotta Give (2003)

Watched ‘Something’s Gotta Give’ (2003) on Netflix.

Americans refusing to grow old, dating and fucking in between hospital visits and heart attacks, sending doctors groping for alternate drugs because the standard medicines will not react well with Viagra that had been popped inside just before the heart attack…

If it were Sean Connery, I wouldn’t complain because he could never be too old for love or seduction. But Jack Nicholson? Gross. The short fat creasy fellow. Thank God for the tender looking Diane Keaton…

Harry (Jack Nicholson) is a sixty something business tycoon who serial dates women no older than 30. His latest is Marin (Amanda Peet), but they haven’t ‘done it’ yet. The two drive to Marin’s mother’s beach house, expecting to be alone, but as they change to kinky clothes for a swim, Marin’s mother Erica(Diane Keaton), a successful playwright and her sister Zoe (Frances McDormand) arrive, taking them by awkward surprise. 

The two women, all set to attack this stranger without pants, upon finding out who he is, put down the knife and the phone receiver that they had been holding after dialing 911, and decide to let the two stay in the house, do their thing and leave as planned. 

As the two start making out in their bedroom however, Harry has a heart attack and is rushed to the hospital.

The doctor Julian (Keanu Reeves) advises Harry to avoid travel so Harry must stay back at the beach house.

Meanwhile, Julian, a big fan of Erica’s plays, has become attracted to her and asks her out.

Erica and Harry, though initially distant and sarcastic in their talk, eventually sleep together. Any surprise?

Harry and Marin, Erica’s daughter, break up. Good thing they haven’t done it yet. Not that it would change anything if they had.

Harry must leave, now that he has recovered, and so he leaves, not before reminding her, though reluctantly - ‘No Strings Attached’

Erica’s ex-husband is all set to remarry, and the woman is only 2 years older than his daughter Marin.

They all have dinner together, during which time, Erica sees Harry in the same restaurant with a young girl, obviously, his next under-30 date.

She is crestfallen, despite the ‘no-strings-attached’ understanding between them.

Erica and Julian start going out to dinner and stuff. Despite her initial hesitation, the two end up kissing – Julian is very sure he likes her.

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Eventually, Harry meets Erica in a restaurant in Paris, and confesses to her that he loves her and she says ‘I do’

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It’s entertaining, you remain hooked to it,…

Diane Keaton and Keanu Reeves look good together. But Jack Nicholson and Amanda Peet look gross.

Christie's @ Rockefeller center – I must visit this store the next time in NYC.

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Lines…

‘She's not your type’

‘You're overlooking one of the great things about me. I don't have a type’

‘She(a famous journalist) has great legs...Too bad she doesn’t expose them’

‘She's Diane Sawyer. She goes into caves in Afghanistan with a shmatte on her head. Who cares about her legs?’

‘Should I shut these? (windows) the sun comes in pretty strong in the morning’

‘You know what Freud said?’

‘There are no accidents’

‘After heart attack, the rule of thumb is, if you can climb a flight of stairs, you can have sex’

‘You look good (healthy)’

‘Well, I haven't been on a gurney in 6 months, so...’ says Harry.

#westerncinema