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Two-time Academy Award® winner Meryl Streep, Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin star in this hilarious look at marriage, divorce and everything in between. Jane (Streep) has three grown kids, a thriving Santa Barbara bakery and an amicable relationship with her ex-husband, Jake (Baldwin). Now, a decade after their divorce, an innocent dinner between Jane and Jake turns into the unimaginable - an affair. Caught in the middle of their rekindled romance are Jake’s young wife and Adam (Martin), a recently divorced architect who starts to fall for Jane. Could love be sweeter the second time around? It’s… complicated! From writer/director Nancy Meyers comes the comedy that critics call "laugh-out-loud funny" (Rex Reed, The New York Observer).It's delightful to see Meryl Streep come into her own as a romantic comedian in her later career years--after all the accolades, the Oscars, the serious-as-marble dramatic roles. Streep is in fact a true cutup, as she has demonstrated in films like Mamma Mia and Julie & Julia--and she gets the guy. So if Nancy Meyers's It's Complicated is perhaps a bit facile in the plot department, it's saved by a splendid romp of a performance by Streep (as Jane), along with her two leading men, Alec Baldwin (Jane's ex-husband, Jake) and Steve Martin (her supposed boyfriend, Adam). Meyers, as she did in Something's Gotta Give and Baby Boom, turns notions of over-the-hilldom--at least for women--on their ear. Streep's Jane is a contented, affluent divorcée with excellent taste in furnishings, happily about to preside over an empty nest and feeling just fine about it. Who should bump into, and ruin, this perfect solitude but Jane's ex, Jake, played to a pompous (and hilarious) fare-thee-well by Baldwin. "Turns out I'm a bit of a slut," chirps the sexually awakened Jane. The beauty of It's Complicated is that it really isn't all that complicated--its chemistry depends on the wonderful actors (including the supporting cast of John Krasinski, Lake Bell, Mary Kay Place, and Rita Wilson) and the oft-forgotten reality that people over 25 can have great sex, and fall head over heels. --A.T. Hurley
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It’s Complicated Reviews
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It's Complicated
Two-time Academy Award® winner Meryl Streep, Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin star in this hilarious look at marriage, divorce and everything in between. Jane (Streep) has three grown kids, a thriving Santa Barbara bakery and an amicable relationship with her ex-husband, Jake (Baldwin). Now, a decade after their divorce, an innocent dinner between Jane and Jake turns into the unimaginable - an affair. Caught in the middle of their rekindled romance are Jake’s young wife and Adam (Martin), a recently divorced architect who starts to fall for Jane. Could love be sweeter the second time around? It’s… complicated! From writer/director Nancy Meyers comes the comedy that critics call "laugh-out-loud funny" (Rex Reed, The New York Observer).It's delightful to see Meryl Streep come into her own as a romantic comedian in her later career years--after all the accolades, the Oscars, the serious-as-marble dramatic roles. Streep is in fact a true cutup, as she has demonstrated in films like Mamma Mia and Julie & Julia--and she gets the guy. So if Nancy Meyers's It's Complicated is perhaps a bit facile in the plot department, it's saved by a splendid romp of a performance by Streep (as Jane), along with her two leading men, Alec Baldwin (Jane's ex-husband, Jake) and Steve Martin (her supposed boyfriend, Adam). Meyers, as she did in Something's Gotta Give and Baby Boom, turns notions of over-the-hilldom--at least for women--on their ear. Streep's Jane is a contented, affluent divorcée with excellent taste in furnishings, happily about to preside over an empty nest and feeling just fine about it. Who should bump into, and ruin, this perfect solitude but Jane's ex, Jake, played to a pompous (and hilarious) fare-thee-well by Baldwin. "Turns out I'm a bit of a slut," chirps the sexually awakened Jane. The beauty of It's Complicated is that it really isn't all that complicated--its chemistry depends on the wonderful actors (including the supporting cast of John Krasinski, Lake Bell, Mary Kay Place, and Rita Wilson) and the oft-forgotten reality that people over 25 can have great sex, and fall head over heels. --A.T. HurleyStills from It's Complicated (Click for larger image)
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Kenny Sigel in "Horseshoe"
"Imma spot like villain diamonds heights Im shine stealing
I must be Christ like cuz your wife she like kneeling
If looks could kill I got you in my sniper sight
Im ice grilling like my Ice Grills in
Erase you like ancient mynas
Escape from a insane asylum
Im making any Atheists and Satin plays a tirade (not sure about that one)
Im scraping the sky with my height a Giant named Goliath
When I stomp the continent breaks creating islands
In honor of inauguration, Im enslaving republicans I stuff em In concentration..
Camps Im Osama and Imma racist
I hate the human race so Im wasting the population
Imma a ape and Im crazy as doma matrix
and domaraping his momma Im spawing obamanation"
No one can touch that that was the sickest verse of the past 10 years.
Verse at 2:25
sorry, no fan of Barca but really hard to ignore those spelling errors
believing that Jesus existed is one thing. Believing that he came as a savior is another. Muslims believe that. confuse people.
When I was a kid I listened to his 8 TRACKS over and over. He changed it all. The first big comedian. (Friends have said an ass in real life though.)
WAYNE SUCKS ASS ,ONLY PPL WHO LIKE WAYNE ARE THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN AFTER RAP DIED i.e: 2pac ,big ,big L the list goes on
J.D.O.V in side ready for show time in few let all in one side them all in my front is my.
If my dad was like her dad, I think be on Dr Phil right now… be hog-tied and stuffed in a closet…. not a walk-in, either.
More beautiful than anything the Beatles ever wrote!?!
A wonderful world unto itself… ::wink::
Rosie Huntington whitely is so terrible at acting she makes Megan Fox looks like Meryl Streep!