In Something's Gotta Give, Jack Nicholson plays a sixty-two year old hot-shot playboy Harry Langer, with his own production company and a wide array of twenty-year-old girlfriends. While spending a weekend in the Hamptons with his current fling Marin (Amanda Peet), he stumbles into the arms of her playwright mother Erica Barry (Diane Keaton), and is forced to decide between his run-around lifestyle and a woman his own age who he might actually be capable of loving.
Harry's recurring heart attacks are a touch of slapstick that works well with this romantic comedy's mid-life crises theme, though much of the humorous banter (and the sex scene) between Nicholson and Keaton is aimed at an older audience. However, Harry is the role Nicholson was born to play, and Keaton and Peet are adorable as emotional, classicly "girly" characters. Though the movie has a promising start, Nicholson's heart attacks become less and less funny as the movie drags on, and the ending is so predictable that two hours and three minutes is an hour and three minutes too long.
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