It's Complicated - Movie Review

Year     -       2009

Cast      -      Meryl Streep (as Jane Adler), Alec Baldwin (as Jake Adler),

                    Steve Martin (as Adam)

Direct    -      Nancy Meyers (remember 'Something’s Gotta Give')

From     -      Universal Pictures

Do you still have something for your ex? The new guy who really likes you. And what if you felt something for him. What if your ex-husband went all out to woo you? What if the new guy finds you in a situation with the ex?

Jane Adler has a successful bakery. Three children, one of whom is leaving the home. A divorce from Jake. And a gang of girlfriends laughing away on being alone in bed. The movie opens with Jane and Jake at the marriage anniversary of a friend. They appear amicable and happy, when the camera rolls to Jake’s wife Agness (Lake Bell) with her youth in ample display and the reason for the divorce. Chance meeting between Jane and Jack at a bar in a New York hotel, where they are both staying at to attend their son’s graduation, leads to an evening of heavy drinking, great chemistry, dancing and eventual passionate night. Despite Jane thinking everything wrong about this, they continue to indulge without the others knowing (heart taking over the head; that’s familiar). Comes in Adam who’s designing Jane’s house after reading 47 of her mails and gets its just right. He is also coming to terms with his 2 and a ½ years of divorce. And immediately falls to the charms of Jane. Despite her age, which is in ample display but also makes her real, Meryl is sensational. Their excursions are interrupted when a BRB on a webcam chat suddenly has Adam seeing Jake naked. And we all know what happens next. Or do we?

Questions that beset all relationships. Answers that we have never had for sure. And paths we wished we’d taken.

It’s doesn’t get more complicated and hilarious than this. Marriage, divorce and everything in between (That’s a straight lift from the VCD back cover; couldn’t have said it better).

Why watch it – superb performances (read chemistry) by Streep and Baldwin and a not-so-complicated script that has you laughing. LAS.