'Something's Gotta Give' (2003)
PG-13 | December 12, 2003 | 128 mins
When perpetually single, aging music industry exec Harry Sanborn, and his latest trophy girlfriend, Marin, arrive at her mother’s beach house in the Hamptons, they find that her mother, playwright Erica Barry, also plans to stay for the weekend. Erica is scandalized by the relationship and Harry’s sexist ways. But when Harry has a heart attack while there, and the doctor prescribes bedrest, his only option is to stay at the Barry home. Left in the care of Erica and his doctor, a love triangle starts to take shape.
Cast: Diane Keaton, Jack Nicholson [+]
Director: Nancy Meyers
Writers: Nancy Meyers
Producers: Nancy Meyers, Bruce A. Block
Cinematographer: Michael Ballhaus
Editors: Joe Hutshing
Music: Hans Zimmer
Distribution: Sony Pictures Releasing
Julian: When something happens to you that hasn’t happened before, don’t you at least have to find out what it is?
Harry: Erica, you are a woman to love.
Harry: I’ve never seen a woman that age naked before.
Julian: You’re kidding.
Harry: Hey! We’re not all doctors, baby.
Harry: I think I’m entering into another phase with this thing. I’m mad at you.
Erica: I think I’m mad at you, too.
Harry: Good, because I don’t LIKE thinking about you all the time and worrying about how you are…
Erica: You… worry about me?
Harry: Yes, honey. The schmuck, who deserves to die, worries about you. Sometimes worrying about you feels like a full-time job.
Erica: Well, I’m doing just fine, so you don’t have to work that shift anymore!
Marin: Are you crying?
Erica: Yeah. It’s my new thing. I’ve gotten abnormally brilliant at it.
Marin: Why? What is it?
Erica: I’m in love. Ain’t it great? Seems like I gotta learn how to that… love-them-and-leave-them stuff, you know?
Marin: Oh mom, I hate this. Now do you get my theory about all this? You gotta self-protect.
Erica: You don’t really buy this stuff you say, do you? You don’t actually think that you can outsmart getting hurt?
Marin: I think it’s worth trying.
Erica: Listen to me. You can’t hide from love for the rest of your life because maybe it won’t work out… maybe you’ll become unglued? It’s just not a way to live.
Marin: Are you telling me this is good? What’s happened to you?
Erica: I think you should consider the possibility that you and I are more alike than you realize. I let someone in, and I had the time of my life.
Marin: I’ve never had the time of my life.
Erica: I know, baby. And I say this from the deepest part of my heart. What are you waiting for?
Erica: What are you doing here, Harry?
Harry: Turns out the heartattack was easy to get over. You… were something else. I finally get it. I’m 63 years old… and I’m in love for the first time in my life.
Harry: Where’s Julian?
Erica: He’s back at the hotel. He said when he saw me with you, he knew I was still in love with you… what do you have to say about that?
Harry: If… if it’s true, my life just got made.
Harry: I love ya.
Erica: Well, I love you too! If that’s what you said. I don’t know if it ends in a ‘ya’ if it’s a true ‘I love you.’
Harry: You’re not like anybody.
- When Erica kisses Harry in the scenes outside the restaurant in New York City, it was an improvisation by Diane Keaton. Writer and director Nancy Meyers liked it so much that she decided to use it in the final cut of the movie.
- Nancy Meyers wrote the roles of Erica and Harry specifically for Diane Keaton and Jack Nicholson.
- Jack Nicholson turned down starring in Bad Santa (2003) to star in this film.
- The DVD includes a deleted scene where Harry sings “La Vie En Rose” for Erica in a karaoke bar. Part of this scene (Harry and Erica dancing) was in one of the trailers. Jack Nicholson sings the same song during the end credits.
- First (albeit brief) full frontal nudity scene for Diane Keaton. Although highly publicized as her first actual nude scene, in fact, she first appeared topless (semi-nude, not fully nude) in Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977).
- The interior of Harry’s house is the same townhouse used as Miranda Priestly’s house in The Devil Wears Prada (2006).
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