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  1. 2003 · Film. Harry Sanborn is an aged music industry exec with a fondness for younger women like Marin, his latest trophy girlfriend. Things get a little awkward when Harry suffers a heart attack at the home of Marin's mother, Erica. Left in the care of Erica and his doctor, a love triangle starts to take shape. Written by. Nancy Meyers.

  2. Salon Media Group, 9 June 1999. Web. 15 Aug. 2006. Kelli Marshall is a visiting assistant profes-sor of film studies at the University of Tole-do. While most of her publications explore Shakespeare in film, she has written papers on the screwball comedy, the star autobiogra-phy, and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

  3. He hears a classic French song in the distance, then sees a small barge, playing the music, pass beneath him. Without warning, a tear falls from his eye. HARRY (laughs at himself) At the end of the day, I’m nothin' but a sap, a stupid old sap, standing on a bridge in Paris, crying my eyes out.

  4. Aug 7, 2010 · Abstract. Nancy Meyers's Something's Gotta Give (2003) may have succeeded both critically and financially because it imitates the central conventions, characterization, and narrative structure of classical screwball comedies.

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  5. Aug 5, 2007 · Written and directed by Nancy Meyers. I don’t know why I can’t stop watching romantic comedy films. It’s some sort of strange weakness. Perhaps it’s my lack of understanding of romantic impulses, the inventiveness of the ideas, the magic of the moment (even though I realise that it is not real – it is a lie about the thrill of the beginning of a relationship, the connection that ...

  6. Something's Gotta Give is a 2003 American romantic comedy drama film written, produced, and directed by Nancy Meyers. It stars Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton as professionals who find love for each other in later life, despite being complete opposites. Keanu Reeves and Amanda Peet co-star, with Frances McDormand, Paul Michael Glaser, Jon ...

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  8. Dec 12, 2003 · A movie like this depends crucially on its stars. To complain that Nicholson is playing “himself” — or that Keaton is also playing a character very much like her public persona — is missing the point. Part of the appeal depends on the movie’s teasing confusion of reality and fiction. Harry defends himself by telling Erica, “I have ...

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