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Jake (Alec Baldwin) rediscovers romance with his ex-wife Jane (Meryl Streep) in the Nancy Meyer comedy “It’s Complicated.” |
If I didn’t know better, I’d suspect that AARP underwrote “It’s Complicated” because of its positive depictions of fiftysomethings having healthy libidos and a take-charge view of life.
The sex scenes between Alec Baldwin and Meryl Streep are so fun and hot that at any moment you half-way expect one of them to blurt out Meg Ryan’s deli speech in “When Harry Met Sally” – “Yes! Yes! Yesssssssssssss!”
Jane Adler (Streep) is single after divorcing Jake (Baldwin) 10 years earlier. Jake, now 58, has married Agnes (Lake Bell), the much younger, trimmer hottie Jake met while stepping out on his wife.
The graduation of their son Luke (Hunter Parrish) brings the ex-spouses to New York, where a chance encounter at the bar mixed with a lot of wine and conversation puts them into several compromising positions.
Jane’s gaggle of gossiping girlfriends (among them Mary Kay Place and Rita Wilson) can’t believe Jane’s become the other woman to the wife who used to be the other woman!
“It’s Complicated” comes from director/writer Nancy Meyers, who has a knack for popular romantic comedies oozing with calculated cuteness and easy affections. She creates several funny vignettes in which Jake and Jane have way too much fun for people their ages.
But Meyers gives all the good stuff to her leads, and lets everyone else in the movie starve for anything beyond functional dialogue. (Read more…)