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...played by the lively Amanda Peet (in reality, an over-the-hill 31)--to her mother's beach house, only to keel over with a heart attack as soon as the fun starts. His girlfriend promptly scampers back to the city, leaving him in the care of her divorced mom Erica (Diane Keaton), a tough-minded, successful playwright with no patience whatsoever for Harry and his boyish high jinks. But as the two are forced into each other's company, Harry sheds his lifelong bias against older women and Erica her carefully constructed emotional barriers. It's a December-December...
Take writer-director Nancy Meyers' Something's Gotta Give, in which Jack Nicholson plays Harry, an aging playboy who happens to catch a glimpse of his young girlfriend's mom (Diane Keaton) in the nude. What with her feminist overachieving and all, she has become something of a prune, sexually speaking. But he has his charms, and one rainy day she succumbs to them. Nothing wrong with that. Their sex scene, despite what Meyers reports as a certain understandable shyness by her players, is agreeably managed. What's less agreeable is this movie's smugness. It's so pleased...
...impossible to overlook Angels' star power (Pacino and Streep's first onscreen pairing has been promoted like Godzilla vs. King Kong), and the celebrities do not disappoint. In multiple roles, Streep morphs effortlessly from ancient Orthodox rabbi to radical Jewish mom Rosenberg to Joe Pitt's mother Hannah. Only occasionally does Pacino slip into his scenery-chewing hooah mode with the eloquently cynical Cohn. And Thompson's angel is no cherub but a winged Old Testament monster of sexual heat and arrogance who proclaims, "My wrath is as fearsome as my countenance is splendid...
...Blige with the grieving of Carole King. Fallin' is one of the best love songs of the past decade. To dislike it is to dislike pop music. But the strength of Fallin', combined with the compelling and oft repeated details of Keys' bio--she was raised by a single mom in one of Manhattan's rougher neighborhoods and received "classical training" on the piano--obscured the fact that most of A Minor was pretty average...
...MOM AND DAD If your parents wanted any more trinkets cluttering up their house they wouldn't still be nagging you to get your yearbooks out of the attic. Get them something perishable, like food. To ship treats like Vanderertven jam and Destrooper cookies (from $56) go to www.giftsofcourse.com...