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Something's Gotta Give

Jack Nicholson refuses to grow old gracefully in Something's Gotta Give
Nina Caplan|Metro5 April 2012
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Warner Home Video, 12, £15.99/£12.99

Nancy Meyers plays sexism and the perils of ageing for slightly forced laughs in this fun but unbalanced comedy about an old rogue - Jack Nicholson, who else? - who refuses to grow up.

When he suffers a mild heart attack at his nubile girlfriend's summer house, her mother (the palatial home's actual owner) is left to play nurse, and soon finds herself falling for her charge.

Diane Keaton is very watchable as the mom, and she and Nicholson work surprisingly well together. But, while the light moments are great, the serious stuff descends into unappealing mush. With commentary, featurette and deleted scenes.

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