Something's Gotta Give

In my English class I wasn't able to remember this title: Something's Gotta Give. Yeah, I must confess I have a head like a sieve .... but it only in terms of movies, fortunately for me.

For this reason, I decided to watch again this film to remember some facts, and one more time I couldn't help laughing.

This movie was directed by Nancy Meyers. It stars Jack Nicholson as Harry, who is a confirmed bachelor; Diane Keaton as Erica, who is a famous writer; Keanu Reeves as the young Dr Julian and Amanda Peet as Marin,  Erica's daughter. With this film the actress Diane Keaton was nominated for her fourth Oscar.
 Most of the film is set in a lovely and elegant village on the East of Long Island in 2003. This place is more best known as 'The Hamptons'. The rest of the film is set in New York.

This movie is a romantic comedy. It's about showing how mature, middle-aged people live a relationship. At the beginning of the story, Harry and Marin have a relationship even though he is older than her. It so happens that Harry, Marin and Erica decide to spend a weekend at Erica's beach house. But one day Harry has a heart attack. At the hospital they meet Dr Julian, who had read all the novels that had been written by Erica. In fact, he loves her although, he is younger than her. As a consequence of Harry's heart attack, Harry must live with Erica. Thanks to this time together they ended up falling in love. However, Harry is afraid of commitment and he breaks up with her. Then Erica gets depressed, but gradually, she gets over her depression through the writing of a new novel that she has been writing based on the relationship with Harry. In the end, Harry understands that he can't fight his feelings and they live together.

I strongly recommended Something's Gotta Give, for three reasons: firstly, it has an incredible sense of humour, it makes you laugh from beginning to end. Secondly, it has a fantastic soundtrack in particular I loved listening to French songs and Maroon 5. Finally, the stars are awesome, the performance by Jack Nicholson and especially by Diane Keaton are quite natural, so the audience can sympathize with their roles.

In a nutshell, with this film the audience could reflect on how a mature woman and an older man face up a relationship, in spite of the big differences between them and younger people. Another very important aspect of the plot is how it approaches the fear and the value of commitment.

I'm not a sadistic person, but I love this scene because with it I could remember that nobody dies for love...although it  apparently seems to have that effect. This experience is really hard to get over.