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Poll: Which Nancy Meyers movie house would you want to live in?
18 hours ago
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If you left It's Complicated thinking you'd like to own the house Meryl Streep's character lives in, you're not alone. It's a common reaction to any film directed and/or written by Nancy Meyers. Personally, I'm still hoping to end up in a Vermont home similar to Diane Keaton's in 1987's Baby Boom (and with a vet) and vacation annually at Keaton's Hamptons beach house in Something's Gotta Give and Kate Winslet's English cottage in The Holiday. In a recent must-read New York Times Magazine profile, Meyers, who believes a home and its furnishings can develop a character,
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- Mandi Bierly
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Live the Movie - The Holiday
21 hours ago
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With romantic onscreen pairings such as Cameron Diaz and Jude Law, Kate Winslet and Jack Black, 2006’s The Holiday is the perfect way to banish any winter blues. It tells the story of two unlucky-in-love women, La workaholic Amanda (Diaz) and unassuming Surrey girl, Iris (Winslet) who swap houses for the Christmas holidays and manage to find love on opposite sides of the pond. Taken in its most literal meaning, their holiday is a break from their jobs and their homes, but in a wider sense it is a holiday from themselves. They are completely out of their comfort zones – on foreign soil, surrounded by strangers and given the time and space to address some of the mental and emotional baggage cluttering their lives. That both achieve their happy endings isn’t surprising in a feel-good rom-com, but with such gutsy commitment to change and love it is what they deserve.
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Movie Review: “It’s Complicated”
26 December 2009 5:35 PM, PST
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Seen on: December 25, 2009
The players: Director: Nancy Meyers, Writer: Nancy Meyers, Cast: Meryl Streep, Steve Martin, Alec Baldwin, John Krasinski, Lake Bell
Facts of interest: Meyers previously directed "The Holiday."
The plot: Jane and Jake have been divorced for 10 years. Chaos erupts when the two start having an affair.
Our thoughts: Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin offer a trio of wonderful performances in Nancy Meyers’ new comedy “It’s Complicated,” a simplistic, yet quite charming and overall mildly entertaining film about what happens to a divorcee when she engages in a passionate affair with her ex-husband.
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It’s Complicated
26 December 2009 3:06 AM, PST
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It’s fair to say that rom-coms aren’t generally my thing. I’ve seen my share of them, and on the whole, I’m never usually impressed. In my experience, they are usually overly romantic and lack “actual” comedy. Writer/director Nancy Meyers has made a very successful career out of the rom-com genre. Films such as What Women Want, Something’s Gotta Give and The Holiday have all been lucrative. Her films are sweet and non-offensive. She is so successful at what she does that major stars all want a piece of the action. Jack Nicholson, Mel Gibson, Jude Law and Kate Winslet among others have jumped on the Nancy Meyers bandwagon. So as the old saying goes: “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”.
With her latest film she has brought together the always brilliant Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin in a film
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‘It’s Complicated’ Movie Got Pretty Good Reviews From Top Movie Critics
25 December 2009 12:52 PM, PST
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'It's Complicated' movie got pretty good reviews from top movie critics. Universal Picture's new romantic comedy, "It's Complicated" hit theaters today,and the reviews are in. They look pretty good. It got all Bs,and just one C. It stars: Meryl Streep, Steve Martin, Alec Baldwin, John Krasinski, Lake Bell, Zoe Kazan, Mary Kay Place, Nora Dunn, Bruce Altman, and Rita Wilson.
Roger Ebert from the Chicago Sun-Times gave it a B-. He said, "It's Complicated is perfectly plausible if you are only willing to believe that Meryl Streep sells a whole lot of muffins."
Lisa Schwarzbaum over at Entertainment Weekly gave it a B rating. He said, " It's Complicated is middle-aged porn, the specialty of Meyers, who also set ladies and interior decorators drooling over homes and gardens in 2006's The Holiday.
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Movie Reviews: “It’s Complicated”
25 December 2009 11:22 AM, PST
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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
25 December 2009 6:00 AM, PST
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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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- Debbie Cerda
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Movie Review: It's Complicated (2009)
25 December 2009 3:48 AM, PST
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Meryl Streep and Alec Baldwin in It's Complicated
Photo: Universal Pictures
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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The MPAA Gets an X-Rating
24 December 2009 1:46 PM, PST
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With a long history of inexplicable, often mind-numbing decisions rating movies, the MPAA has remarkably outdone themselves. They've just reached a new low that gives them a tough standard to match in the future.
The movie in question is It's Complicated. A perfectly normal romantic comedy from writer-director Nancy Meyers, the filmmaker of such genial fare as The Holiday, Something's Gotta Give, and The Parent Trap remake. But in their unique sense of wisdom, It's Complicated got...an R-rating.
And in their reason is the tale.
Before I explain their reason, though, make your own guess. Why do you think the MPAA gave the good-hearted romantic comedy, It's Complicated, an R-rating? Got an answer? Good.
You're wrong.
The reason It's Complicated got an R-rating is because - I can't believe I'm typing this - there is a scene when characters smoke
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- Robert J. Elisberg
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Review: It's Complicated
23 December 2009 6:02 AM, PST
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The message of It's Complicated seems to be that it sure is tough being a wealthy white person in Santa Barbara. Boy howdy! First there's your highly successful bakery that's pulling in money hand over fist. Then there are the complications of building an addition to your house (in which you live alone, and which needs no additions). And then, to top it all off, the architect you've hired expresses romantic interest in you at the same time that you're rekindling an affair with your ex-husband! Two perfectly good suitors fall into your lap simultaneously! Where will the nightmare end??
History teaches us that during the Great Depression, poor audiences flocked to movies about rich people, delighted to be whisked away to a glamorous world and escape their own dreary lives. But the current economic crisis isn't as bad as the one in the 1930s, and people have found numerous
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- Eric D. Snider
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It's Complicated Reviews
23 December 2009 5:10 AM, PST
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Director Nancy Meyers' brand of rom-com is unmistakable, and always a huge hit at the box office. Reviews of her latest, It's Complicated, tend to split along generational lines, with Boomer critics being Ok with it, Gen X not so much.
"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."
— Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
"You don't have to feel guilty for lapping up this froth. Just don't expect nourishment."
— Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
"It's Complicated is middle-aged porn, the specialty of Meyers, who also set ladies and interior decorators drooling over homes and gardens in 2006's The Holiday."
— Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
"The rom com is a talky genre, sure, but the people here never say anything interesting; the script is all situations and no jokes."
— Aaron Cutler,
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Running Amunk for the Holidays
22 December 2009 11:59 AM, PST
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Happy holidays, everyone! Those willing and able to drag themselves away from the huge pile of swag under the tree can enjoy the late Heath Ledger's final performance, a Jude Law double bill and a drolly comic Romanian police procedural underneath among other holiday presents that await at the multiplex.
"Alvin and The Chipmunks: The Squeakquel"
With the tagline "Munk Yourself" sounding more like a threat than a come-on, the high-pitched trio of singing rodents return just in time for exhausted moms to plunk the rugrats down at the multiplex after the presents are unwrapped while they snore quietly in the back row. Betty Thomas, who has some kid-themed kid-themed hijinks with on her CV, steps in for the first film's helmer Tim Hill and trades out her experience with real critters on "Dr. Dolittle" for these much less messy (not to mention non-union) digital substitutes. Jason Lee reprises his role as Dave,
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- Neil Pedley
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Christmas and new year TV films
18 December 2009 5:30 AM, PST
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Not sure what to watch? We can help with our comprehensive guide to the best films on TV this Christmas and new year
Choose a date
Saturday 19 December | Sunday 20 December | Monday 21 December | Tuesday 22 December | Wednesday 23 December |Christmas Eve | Christmas Day | Boxing Day | Sunday 27 December | Monday 28 December | Tuesday 29 December | Wednesday 30 December | New Year's Eve | New Year's Day
Saturday 19 December
Yes Man (Peyton Reed, 2008)
10am, 8pm, Sky Movies Premiere
Remember Jim Carrey in Liar, Liar, where he forces himself to tell the truth for 24 hours? Well, here Jim Carrey forces himself to answer yes to any request, for a year. Which is upping the ante somewhat, but doesn't make it a better film. This is a return to the manic, gurning, not-very-funny Carrey, as if The Truman Show, Eternal Sunshine etc hadn't happened. Just say no.
The Golden Compass (Chris Weitz, 2007)
11.40am, 8pm, Sky Movies Family
What with Harry Potter, Narnia, Lemony Snicket and all,
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Christmas and new year TV films
18 December 2009 5:30 AM, PST
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Not sure what to watch? We can help with our comprehensive guide to the best films on TV this Christmas and new year
Choose a date
Saturday 19 December | Sunday 20 December | Monday 21 December | Tuesday 22 December | Wednesday 23 December |Christmas Eve | Christmas Day | Boxing Day | Sunday 27 December | Monday 28 December | Tuesday 29 December | Wednesday 30 December | New Year's Eve | New Year's Day
Saturday 19 December
Yes Man (Peyton Reed, 2008)
10am, 8pm, Sky Movies Premiere
Remember Jim Carrey in Liar, Liar, where he forces himself to tell the truth for 24 hours? Well, here Jim Carrey forces himself to answer yes to any request, for a year. Which is upping the ante somewhat, but doesn't make it a better film. This is a return to the manic, gurning, not-very-funny Carrey, as if The Truman Show, Eternal Sunshine etc hadn't happened. Just say no.
The Golden Compass (Chris Weitz, 2007)
11.40am, 8pm, Sky Movies Family
What with Harry Potter, Narnia, Lemony Snicket and all,
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- Paul Howlett
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Uncomplicate your life with a Visa Cash Card and It's Complicated Tote Bag
17 December 2009 7:31 AM, PST
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Writer/director Nancy Meyers (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, arriving in theaters December 25th from Universal Pictures. M&C is looking to get things a little uncomplicated by giving away a Visa Cash Card and an It.s Complicated Tote Bag! 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
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- Patrick Luce
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Cameron Diaz Returns To Raunch As A 'Bad Teacher'
10 December 2009 2:00 PM, PST
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Cameron Diaz can do sweet romantic comedies like "The Holiday" and tearjerker dramas like "My Sister's Keeper" and even the occasional period piece like "Gangs of New York," but her true calling has always been raunchy comedy. Now, to add to her gross-out work in "There's Something About Mary" and "The Sweetest Thing," the actress will star in Columbia Pictures' "Bad Teacher," according to Variety.
Jake Kasdan, who last gave us "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story," is directing the comedy, about a "foulmouthed, gold-digging middle-school teacher," who battles with another faculty member for dibs on a hot co-worker. The idea of a fought-over "model teacher" makes me imagine "Glee" star Matthew Morrison as the male lead, but that will never happen.
What makes "Bad Teacher" sound more appealing than, say, "What Happens in Vegas?" is that the script was written by Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky, of TV's
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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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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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Fashion fix: Miu Miu shearling coat from The Holiday
8 December 2009 9:05 AM, PST
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Where to start with the fantastic festive fashions as flaunted by Cameron Diaz’s Amanda Woods in cute Christmas rom-com The Holiday? Touching down in snowy Surrey (!), she’s a style sensation and with her swanky Hollywood lifestyle, can afford nothing but the best, stepping out in expensive items such as her white Tse cable knit cashmere sweater which sells for almost $1,000 (see Related Content, right). However, it’s not the eye-watering price tags that make her the ultimate snow angel, but her chic and crisp style that can be achieved no matter what your budget. So whether you’re buying for the fashionista in your life this Christmas or splashing out on a treat for yourself, this Miu Miu shearling coat is the only place to start.
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