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Genres:
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Comedy /
Romance
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Release:
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Director:
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Nancy Meyers
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Actors:
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Rita Wilson,
Hunter Parrish,
Alexandra Wentworth,
Meryl Streep,
Steve Martin,
Alec Baldwin,
John Krasinski,
Lake Bell,
Mary Kay Place,
Zoe Kazan
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Duration:
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120 min.
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Rating:
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(6.9/10)767.5
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Plot Summary:
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During his son's college graduation, Jane hooks up with her ex-husband, Jake, who's married to a younger woman..
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It's Complicated
Kenneth TuranMeryl Streep continues the foodie phase of her craft in It's Knotty, a cloying, self-satisfied, occasionally off-the-wall farce about an extramarital affair between way back when married fiftysomethings. Writer-commander Nancy Meyers' latest survey of the travails of the priceless and pampered boasts a clever important premise and an enjoyably self-effacing clever check by Alec Baldwin. But Streep, playing the best cook to hit Santa Barbara since Julia Child died there, laughs a lot more than the audience whim, which is not a good shit. Unlimited should ring up solid holiday biz from a glossy confection that will learn its most responsive audience aggregate women of a definite age on girls' nights unconfined.
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It's Complicated
Betsy SharkeyThe problem with It's Byzantine, a sentimentalist comedy approximately the menopausal crowd starring Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin, is that it's not identically labyrinthine enough.
The film is the latest from writer-director Nancy Meyers, who has been working to the core her issues on screen proper for at least 20 years, starting with Indulge in 1987 through Something's Gotta Give in 2003. But the vulnerability and smartness as favourably as the funny, with which she infused those earlier films, are harder to find here. In place of she's actuality us her thinnest slice of waggish relationship angst yet, proving, I guess, that you as a matter of fact can be too thin.
Nearby the way, if the menopausal reference made you murmur, ...
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