Something's Gotta Give: Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton

I absolutely love Jack Nicholson. I always have. I love watching him perform, how he carries himself, his facial expressions the way he acts and the fact that he is almost always getting away with something in his films. I also like Diane Keaton a lot. She is a funny, down-to-earth, realistic actress with a great face good comic timing. Putting these two fabulous actors opposite one another in a romantic comedy could make for a wonderful film. To put them together in a film and have it fail miserably on every level is just downright depressing to think about. Something's Gotta Give accomplishes the latter. This is a hopelessly incompetent and I blame that on the director Nancy Myers who has absolutely no clue what to do with the talent she has.

Nicholson stars in the film as Harry Sanborn, a music producer with a ton of money and a knack for dating women
who are half his age. His current interest at the beginning of the film is Marin (Amanda Peet), an attractive young woman who does something or other with auctions. The two retreat to Marin's mothers house on the east coast for a romantic weekend, only to discover that Marins' mom Erica (Diane Keaton) and her Aunt Zoe (Frances McDormand) have stayed home for the weekend. Erica is a famous playwright and a divorcee who doesn't approve of the romance. 

After an awkward dinner involving all four characters, Harry ends up having a heart attack and through a series of of horribly contrived and nonsensical situations he ends up staying at the beach house with Erica. An attraction begins blooming between Harry and Erica and every stupid cliche from every other run-of-the-mill romantic comedy results. Basically, two characters who are very much in love with each other are too stupid to speak a couple of words that would make everything okay and are kept apart for as long as possible until the end of the film. Harry's Doctor is played by Keanu Reeves (you read that right unfortunately) who just happens to be the world's biggest fan of Erica's plays, which is crucial in order to give Erica a different romantic interest for a while despite the inevitability of who she will end up with.