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, Adam starts to fall for Jane, but soon realizes he's become part of a love triangle.
Should Jane and Jake move on with their lives, or is love truly lovelier the second time around? It's... complicated
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Its Complicated Movie Review :
A womanizing lawyer who left Jane ten years ago after a twenty year marriage to run off with the tattooed young trophy sexpot named Agness (Lake Bell) that he's parading around, Jake turns up once again to painfully diplomatic Jane's dismay, when the family flies to New York to attend their son's college graduation. But this time around he's flying solo, having left Agness back home with her annoying, hyperactive love child, Pedro.
All of which incites in the philandering repeat offender Jake the urge to hit on his ex-wife, bad boy behavior made all the more irresistibly appealing to the faithless jerk when you factor in his libidinous addiction to extra-marital flings. And though Jane is more than wise to the incorrigible two-timer and hearing none of it, her perceptions are altered after one too many drinks with him at the hotel bar that night. End of story.
Which is where Jane's most unwelcome affair from hell gets a tad too complicated. So is she a co-conspirator in cheating on Jake's wife, or since the wife happens to also be the woman who helped him cheat on her, is this top secret tryst even from their own kids a guilt trip or a guilty pleasure?
To further convolute matters, a shy and insecure recently divorced architect (Steve Martin) renovating Jane's house is pursuing her as well. So what would any self-respecting desperate housewife do to escape such a wacky situation. According to Meyers, lighting up a joint with a doting architect is the best revenge. Or rather, 'poking smot.' While dumping all that mature adult decorum, and growing young and reckless together again.
Though the story takes a sharp right into stern family values weepie territory at the final stretch, up until the finish line Streep as a born again hottie not about to let midlife crisis rain on her parade, is a sheer blast. While a remarkably unembarrassed Baldwin as the aging paunchy super-stud in his own mind, is totally into setting himself up as the literal butt of jokes, when it comes to macho vanity and over the hill guy nudity.
It's Complicated Movie Details :
Release Date: December 25, 2009
Studio: Universal Pictures
Director: Nancy Meyers
Screenwriter: Nancy Meyers
Starring: Meryl Streep, Steve Martin, Alec Baldwin, John Krasinski, Lake Bell, Zoe Kazan, Mary Kay Place, Nora Dunn, Bruce Altman, Rita Wilson
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R (for some drug content and sexuality. PENDING APPEAL)
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