Divorce is never an easy process to handle for the divorcees, the children or their surrounding family and friends. But divorce isn’t always forever.
Divorce is never an easy process to handle for the divorcees, the children or their surrounding family and friends. But divorce isn’t always forever.
In It’s Complicated, a couple who have been divorced for 10 years rekindle their love in secret. Starring Meryl Streep as Jane, the ex-wife of Jake (Alec Baldwin), this romantic comedy heart-warmingly suggests that love can triumph over difficulties, divorce, separation and even remarriage.
This film is sure to keep you giggling with gems like when Jane compares her situation to her friends’ exclaiming, “You’re so lucky Jerry is dead, you don’t have to bump into him!”
Jane owns a bakery in Santa Barbara and has flair for cooking and baking. Jake is an attorney and, along with the amicable relationship they share, they have three grown children.
After Jane’s friends joke with her that she needs to re-enter the dating scene, Jane shares a dinner with Jake at their son’s graduation in New York and very soon their amicable relationship evolves into a love affair with Jane as the notorious “other woman” to Jake’s new, younger wife, Agness, played by Lake Bell.
She knows the affair is wrong, and although Jane and her friends laugh over the irony of it, Jane and Jake enjoy their time together.
But when actor Steve Martin enters the scene as Adam, the architect hired to remodel Jane’s kitchen, another vertex is added to the love triangle.
Trying to get over his own divorce, Adam becomes attracted to Jane and they go on a date. Jake now has two obstacles to overcome if he wants to reunite with Jane: his ovulating wife and an older single man looking for a soul-mate.
But the real question is whether Jane wishes to continue her love for Jake. The double-headed polygon rears its vertices in many awkward and nerve-jerking situations that maintain the audience’s suspense as to who will triumph in the love-lock and questions whether past love can be rekindled.
Especially when Jane is talking to Adam over webcam and Jake decides to make his move on her! It’s enticing. It’s funny.
It’s title describes this film about love, marriage and relationships well: It’s complicated. It’s Complicated was written and directed by Nancy Meyers who also directed The Holiday, What Women Want and Something’s Gotta Give.
It was nominated for the Broadcast Film Critics Association award for Best Comedy Film and won the National Board of Review Awards in the category of Best Cast which was received by Alec Baldwin, Meryl Streep and Steve Martin.
