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Something's Gotta Give
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Generally favorable reviews
Based on 42 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Comedy | Drama | Romance
Written by: Nancy Meyers
Directed by: Nancy Meyers
Release Date:
Theatrical: December 12, 2003
DVD: March 30, 2004
Running Time: 110 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: PG-13 for sexual content, brief nudity and strong language
Starring Jack Nicholson, Diane Keaton, Amanda Peet, Keanu Reeves, Frances McDormand, Jon Favreau, and Nichole Hiltz
A sophisticated romantic comedy from writer/director Nancy Meyers which proves that in matters of the heart, you can expect the unexpected. (Sony Pictures)
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
The moments between the characters are absolutely full. It's a pleasure to watch such consummate professionals.
Read Full Review >USA Today Mike Clark
But let's not mislead about acting gold: Without Nicholson and Keaton, the movie would be fair. With them, it's one of the few good romantic comedies this year. What we gotta give is thanks.
Read Full Review >USA Today Staff [Not Credited]
But let's not mislead about acting gold: Without Nicholson and Keaton, the movie would be fair. With them, it's one of the few good romantic comedies this year. What we gotta give is thanks.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
[Keaton and Nicholson] bring so much experience, knowledge and humor to their characters that the film works in ways the screenplay might not have even hoped for.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold
Its script is sharp, its dialogue is acerbic, its stars could hardly be better and, in its more sparkling moments, it exudes some of the flavor and charm of the later Hepburn-Tracy comedies.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
Every moment spent in the company of Keaton... is such a joy that the whole is more delightful than the sum of the formulaic ingredients. Keaton makes Nicholson bounce the way Shirley MacLaine once did in ''Terms of Endearment.''
Read Full Review >The New York Times Dana Stevens
Nobody else working in movies today can make her (Keaton) own misery such a source of delight or make the spectacle of utter embarrassment look like a higher form of dignity.
Read Full Review >Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
Diane Keaton has the crucial role, and she makes the most of it.
Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach
Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton are so good in Something's Gotta Give, it's a shame writer-director Nancy Meyers couldn't rein herself in a little more.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
With the likes of Nicholson, Keaton, Reeves and Peet -- and a fleeting, funny few minutes with McDormand -- Something's Gotta Give is never less than entertaining. And once in a while it's sweetly, and extremely, funny.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
Movies like this are meant to amuse and entertain, though, not instruct. Meyers's latest is worth seeing for its offbeat story, its tantalizing settings, and most of all, its spot-on acting, especially by Keaton and Nicholson.
Read Full Review >Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman
It's wise, funny, honest right up to its last sadly dishonest scene, doesn't mock us more than we deserve and offers attractive women in various stages of undress.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone Peter Travers
In an era of dumb farce, Something's Gotta Give is something special.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt
The film also does something quite remarkable for an American film: It makes middle-age love look sexy and hugely satisfying.
Read Full Review >Variety Scott Foundas
Jokes about impotence, menopause and other middle-aged maladies reside where a screenplay ought to live.
Read Full Review >Newsweek David Ansen
The movie, which ricochets between farce and poignancy, casts just enough romantic pixie dust to leave you smiling. It's certainly not the last word on the subject, but it's an amiable start.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
Stumbles in miscalculating how far it needs to go to make this particular romance convincing when, as another romantic comedy character put it, it had us from hello.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Desson Thomson
It is a well written, nicely acted and smoothly directed battle of the sexes.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Desson Thomson
It is a well written, nicely acted and smoothly directed battle of the sexes.
Read Full Review >Slate David Edelstein
I love Nicholson here because he lets Keaton take the movie--and his relative reticence is very attractive.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Keith Phipps
Mostly, it's just a pleasure to watch Keaton and Nicholson learning new steps in an old dance, stumbling to grab at happiness before it's too late.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader J.R. Jones
In the end I didn't believe in their relationship, but I was pleased to see Keaton tearing it up for two hours.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy
As cinema, it's polenta, but it's made palatable by the piquant sauce with which these two great stars season it.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Kimberley Jones
[Keaton's] lost none of the spunk, sass, and ditzbomb charm of her "Annie Hall" days. She, quite simply, is marvelous. Too bad her similarly iconic co-star is such a toad. Jack never stops being Jack, to great distraction.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Wesley Morris
Doesn't America's 50-and-fabulous set deserve better than a movie this superficial and pandering?
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
Despite the weak dialogue, there are still some laughs to be had. At the end of this long journey, we're rooting for Harry and Erica to be together. For the movie to get us to that point, regardless of its motives and methods, it can't be all bad.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jami Bernard
It's hard to imagine anyone other than Keaton pulling this off.
Read Full Review >New York Post Megan Lehmann
Keaton's overamped girlishness, and the adolescent shenanigans she engages in, make a mockery of this overlong romantic comedy's stance as a celebration of mature love.
Read Full Review >Premiere Sara Brady
Frances McDormand, as Ericas younger sister, flourishes in her few minutes of screen time. Shes flinty, ferocious, and purely hysterical.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez
It's a glossy, somewhat condescending comedy, with all the substance of a cone of soft vanilla ice cream.
Read Full Review >New York Magazine Peter Rainer
Even in a piffle like Somethings Gotta Give, Keaton reminds us of her uncanny ability to inhabit her characters' knockabout emotions.
Read Full Review >Dallas Observer Luke Y. Thompson
As a date-night movie for women of 50 or thereabouts, chances are it'll do the trick.
Read Full Review >The New Yorker David Denby
Harmless, but it gave me a pain. Why make such a fuss over middle-aged bodies anyway? [22 & 29 December 2003, p. 166]
Empire Alan Morrison
It also takes too long in the final act to write itself out of its plot entanglements, and ends up looking rather too pleased with itself.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Ethan Alter
A whiz at crafting conventional Hollywood screenplays, Meyers's direction is overreliant on close-ups and medium shots; there's no life to any of the images. Still, the film coasts along smoothly on the charisma of its stars.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen
If the lines in the script were as keenly etched as the ones in her face, Keaton would have had something to work with. Instead, during an especially lovelorn sequence, she's asked to indulge in a crying montage so painfully extended that it has us in tears too -- weeping from embarrassment for her.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Ella Taylor
Jack, the actor, smiles obligingly, but you can practically feel him rolling his eyes.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Michael Atkinson
Something does have to give, and that's the nine-figure public patronage of this kind of anemic, wit-free entertainment. Meyers's shakin' moneymaker isn't the worst film of 2003 -- no cat suits, for one thing -- but something scarier: a standard-issue bog of glossy idiocy and audience disrespect.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 6.5 (out of 10) based on 39 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Sam gave it a10:
Fantastic, hilarious, and moving, it's quite simply a great movie.
[Anonymous] gave it a7:
A movie for older people, but me, a teen, found it entertaining from time to time, thanks to good performances.
Maddie S. gave it an8:
I thought this was a pretty cool movie (plus Keanu Reeves is so HOT!) and also very funny at times.
Caaptain Craig gave it an8:
It helps if you like Jack and Diane. A nice classy and sophiscated move about older people....a welcome releaf from oversexed and undertalnted teenie booper actors. At moments it felt like I was watching Good as It Gets...a better film.
Layne gave it a9:
Diane Keaton is so loose, funny, and flirtatious that it is easy to ignore any flaws in the film. Her bubbling, effervescent charm and dead-pan comic timing is beguiling. One of my favorite performances in one of my favorite movies.
Mark T. gave it a 2:
Saw this on United for free, and angry at time better spent sleeping or staring out the window. A hackneyed insult to my intelligence. Nicholson plays the same predictable role he plays --sarcastic, oh so free-wheeling and playful. Keanu Reeves should be embarrassed; no acting on his part, like the Matrix trilogy, but none of the fun. The movie plays on stereotypes about older, successful women that really irked my female partner, and offered stale cliches and cutsieness. Make me puke.
Mike M. gave it an 8:
I really enjoyed this movie. Jack and Diane had great chemistry. Amanda Peet, Keanu, and Mcdormand were all terrific. The only problem is i thought it was going to end like 5 times before it actually did. So it was a little draggy in the middle but other than that a great movie.
