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65
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64
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62
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61
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61
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58
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57
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57
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57
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55
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55
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55
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54
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54
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53
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51
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50
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49
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49
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48
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47
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44
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43
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41
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37
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37
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37
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36
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36
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36
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35
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34
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34
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33
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31
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24
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22
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75
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86
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86
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85
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84
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83
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83
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83
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83
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83
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82
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81
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81
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80
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80
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80
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79
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79
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79
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78
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78
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76
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76
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76
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75
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75
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74
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74
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73
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72
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72
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72
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72
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72
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72
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71
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71
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71
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71
Trumbo
71
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70
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70
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70
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70
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70
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69
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69
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68
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68
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68
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67
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67
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67
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66
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66
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66
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66
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65
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65
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64
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64
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64
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64
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64
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63
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63
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63
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62
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62
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61
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61
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61
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61
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61
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61
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61
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60
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60
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59
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59
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59
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58
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57
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56
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56
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55
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55
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55
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55
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55
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55
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54
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54
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54
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54
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53
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52
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52
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51
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51
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51
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49
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48
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47
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47
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47
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44
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39
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38
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36
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33
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31
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30
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29
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28
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25
Take
10
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xx
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Something's Gotta Give
Sony Pictures Entertainment
FILM:
MPAA 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)
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
|
Drama
|
Romance
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Nancy Meyers
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Nancy Meyers
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: March 30, 2004
Video: March 30, 2004
Theatrical: December 12, 2003
|
| RUNNING TIME: |
110 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

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...
100
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
The moments between the characters are absolutely full. It's a pleasure to watch such consummate professionals.

88
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.

88
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.

88
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.

83
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.

83
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.''

80
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.

80
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Diane Keaton has the crucial role, and she makes the most of it.
80
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
Generally quite amusing, with a brilliant cast.

75
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.

75
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.

75
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.

75
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
Doesn't always sizzle, but its stars do.

75
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.

75
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
In an era of dumb farce, Something's Gotta Give is something special.

70
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.

70
Variety
Scott Foundas
Jokes about impotence, menopause and other middle-aged maladies reside where a screenplay ought to live.

70
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.

70
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.

70
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
It is a well written, nicely acted and smoothly directed battle of the sexes.

70
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
It is a well written, nicely acted and smoothly directed battle of the sexes.

70
Slate
David Edelstein
I love Nicholson here because he lets Keaton take the movie--and his relative reticence is very attractive.

70
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.

70
Film Threat
A sweet and fresh comedy that was a joy to watch.

70
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.

67
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.

67
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.

63
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
Doesn't America's 50-and-fabulous set deserve better than a movie this superficial and pandering?

63
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.

63
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
It's hard to imagine anyone other than Keaton pulling this off.

63
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.

63
Premiere
Sara Brady
Frances McDormand, as Ericas younger sister, flourishes in her few minutes of screen time. Shes flinty, ferocious, and purely hysterical.

63
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
It's a glossy, somewhat condescending comedy, with all the substance of a cone of soft vanilla ice cream.

60
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.

60
Dallas Observer
Luke Y. Thompson
As a date-night movie for women of 50 or thereabouts, chances are it'll do the trick.

60
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]
60
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.

50
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.

50
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.

50
Salon.com
Charles Taylor
Irritatingly moralistic romantic comedy.

50
LA Weekly
Ella Taylor
Jack, the actor, smiles obligingly, but you can practically feel him rolling his eyes.

30
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.


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