It’s Complicated (DVD)

It s Complicated is a 2009 American romantic comedy film written and directed by Nancy Meyers. It stars Meryl Streep as a bakery owner and single mother of three who starts a secret affair with her ex-husband, played by Alec Baldwin, ten years after their divorce – only to find herself drawn to another man: her architect, Adam (portrayed by Steve Martin). The film also features supporting performances by Lake Bell, Hunter Parrish, Zoe Kazan, John Krasinski, Mary Kay Place, Robert Curtis Brown, and Rita Wilson, among others.

The film was met with average reviews from critics, who praised the acting of its ensemble cast but declared its story rather predictable. It became another commercial hit for Meyers, however, upon its Christmas Day 2009 opening release in the United States and Canada. It played well through the holidays and into January 2010, ultimately closing on April 1 with $112.7 million. Worldwide, It s Complicated eventually grossed $219.1 million, and surpassed The Holiday (2006) to become Meyer s third-highest-grossing project to date.

For their performances, the cast was awarded a National Board of Review of Motion Pictures Award for Best Ensemble Cast the same year. In addition, the film was nominated at both the Critics Choice Awards and the Satellite Awards and garnered Meyers two Golden Globe nominations, including Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and Best Screenplay. Streep and Baldwin each were individually recognized with Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor nominations at the Golden Globe and BAFTA award ceremonies, respectively.

Plot

Jane, who owns a successful bakery in Santa Barbara, California, and Jake Adler, a successful attorney, divorced ten years earlier. They had three children together, two daughters and a son, who are grown. Jake has married the much younger Agness, the woman he cheated on Jane with.

Jane and Jake attend their son Luke s graduation from college in New York City. After a dinner together, the two begin an affair, which continues in Santa Barbara. Jane is torn about the affair; Jake is not. While Agness has Jake scheduled for regular sessions at a fertility clinic, Jake is secretly taking medication to decrease his frequent urination, the side effects of which are decreased sperm count and dizziness. After one of his sessions, he has a lunchtime rendezvous with Jane at a hotel. Jake collapses in the hotel room and a doctor is called. The doctor speculates that the reason for Jake s distress may be the medication and says he should stop taking it. Jake and Jane s children know nothing of the affair, but Harley, who is engaged to their daughter Lauren, spots the pair and the doctor in the hotel but keeps silent.

Adam is an architect hired to remodel Jane s home. Still healing from a divorce of his own, he begins to fall in love with Jane. On the night of Luke s graduation party in Santa Barbara, Jane invites Adam to the party. She is stoned when he picks her up because she has taken a hit from a marijuana joint that Jake had given her earlier. Before going into the party, Adam smokes some of the joint with Jane. Once inside, they are laughing and happily high, Jake becomes jealous observing them, and after pressing Jane, smokes some with her also.

Agness then observes Jake and Jane dancing together and senses they are having an affair. When they leave the party, Adam asks Jane if they could have something to eat. Jane takes him to her bakery and they make chocolate croissants together, ending the evening with a romantic kiss. Jake and Agness separate, although it is not clear who leaves whom. Eventually, by a webcam in Jane s bedroom, Adam sees Jake naked and realizes that the two have been having an affair. Adam tells Jane he cannot continue seeing her because it will only lead to heartbreak. Jane s kids also find out, and they are not happy about their parents getting back together because they are still recovering from the divorce. Jane tells them she is not getting back with Jake. Jane and Jake talk and end their affair on amicable terms.

The film ends with Adam at Jane s house ready to commence the remodeling. Before the credits roll, Jane and Adam are seen laughing about the chocolate croissants while walking into her house.

Cast

• Meryl Streep as Jane Adler, a successful bakery owner.
• Steve Martin as Adam Schaffer, Jane s architect.
• Alec Baldwin as Jacob Jake Adler, Jane s ex-husband.
• Lake Bell as Agness Adler, Jake s wife.
• Hunter Parrish as Luke David Adler, Jane and Jake s son.
• Zoe Kazan as Gabby Adler, Jane and Jake s younger daughter.
• Caitlin FitzGerald as Lauren Adler, Jane and Jake s older daughter.
• John Krasinski as Harley, Lauren s fiancé.
• Mary Kay Place as Joanne
• Rita Wilson as Trisha
• Alexandra Wentworth as Diane
• James Patrick Stuart as Dr. Moss, the plastic surgeon
• Blanchard Ryan as Annalise
• Michael Rivera as Eddie
• Robert Curtis Brown as Peter
• Peter Mackenzie as Dr. Alan, Jane s therapist.
• Rosalie Ward as Alex
• Jimmy Clabots as Chase
• Emjay Anthony as Pedro Adler
• Emily Kinney as Waitress.
• Nora Dunn as Sally
• Bruce Altman as Ted
• Lisa Lynn Masters as the beautiful woman in elevator.
• Pat Finn as Hotel Doctor
• Valente Rodriguez as Reynaldo
• Andrew Stewart-Jones as Restaurant Host
• Geneva Carr as Woman at Fertility Clinic
• Deidre Goodwin as Fertility Nurse
• Jessica St. Clair as Wedding Specialist
• Marina Squerciati as Melanie
• Robert Adamson as College Kid at Party
• Heitor Pereira as Party Musician
• Ramin Djawadi as Party Musician
• Alan Cumming as TV Actor (uncredited)
• Anne Lockhart as Party Guest (uncredited)
• Oprah Winfrey as Herself (uncredited)

Production

Casting

In May 2008, Nancy Meyers agreed to a project for Universal Studios that she would write and direct, to be co-produced with Scott Rudin. The project was referred to as The Untitled Nancy Meyers Project during its inception and early production. Establishing commitments from the principals began in 2008, with Meryl Streep and Alec Baldwin entering discussions in August, and Steve Martin joining the cast in October. Casting continued through 2009, with Zoe Kazan, Lake Bell, and Hunter Parrish joining in January, John Krasinski in February, Rita Wilson in March, and Caitlin Fitzgerald in June.

Filming

While the majority of the film is set in Santa Barbara, California, most of the filming – including nearly all of the interiors – took place in New York City. Principal photography began on February 18, 2009 at the Broadway Stages in the Brooklyn borough, where the interior scenes of Jane s house were shot. Several other key locations were used during the first portion of filming in New York, including Picnic House, a large, studio-sized structure in Brooklyn s Prospect Park, where Jane s bakery was built inside; the facilities at Sarabeth s Bakery in the Chelsea Market; and a commercial loft building in New York s Chelsea district, where scenes at Adam s office were filmed in. As Martin was soon to embark on a concert tour to promote The Crow: New Songs for the Five-String Banjo (2009), his schedule required the team to complete shooting his scenes during the first two months of filming.

In April 2009, the company relocated to Los Angeles, where cast and crew started filming scenes taking place outside Jane s house, for which a ranch house located in Thousand Oaks in the north of Los Angeles was used. In mid-April, the crew spent a few days filming exteriors in Montecito and Santa Barbara – just days before wildfires took a heavy toll on the area. Additional scenes were taken in front of numerous downtown landmarks, including the Santa Barbara County Courthouse and the El Paseo section. Afterwards, the team returned to Los Angeles for completion of the scenes at Jane s house and for the filming at the Bel-Air Bay Club in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood. In early May, principal photography returned to Brooklyn for completion. For Luke s graduation scenes, shooting took place at St. John s University in Queens and on Park Avenue in Manhattan. Several different locations stood in for the fictional Park Regent hotel: While a residence building on Park Avenue and 59th Street was used for exterior shots, the lobby and Jane s hotel room were in the JW Marriott Essex House. The hotel bar was the interior of a restaurant on Tenth Avenue. Filming eventually completed in August 2009.

The sets were easy to design. Most scenes take place in the protagonist s home and interior courtyard, and as such the details had to be fastidiously worked out, but the rooms were kept bare to reflect the character s functional tastes and limited budget. There are relatively few decorations, just a bunch of thrift-store things haphazardly thrown together , in the words of production designer Jon Hutman. The building itself is a traditional 1920s Spanish-ranch-style adobe-mud house which epitomised the Santa Barbara area.

Reception

Critical response

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 58% based on 183 reviews, with an average rating of 5.80/10. The website s critical consensus is: Despite fine work by an appealing cast, It s Complicated is predictable romantic comedy fare, going for broad laughs instead of subtlety and nuance. Another review aggregator, Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average, gave the film a score of 57 out of 100, based on 30 critics, indicating mixed or average reviews . Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade A−.

Wesley Morris of the Boston Globe called the film the most emotionally sophisticated of all Meyers’s fantasies and praised the acting performances in it. He noted that the film felt like a made-for-Meryl film Streep deploys all her best moves in movie star mode, and she’s irresistible, and declared Baldwin a worthy match to her, writing: It’s Complicated unleashes an unabashedly, desperately romantic side of Baldwin that we haven’t seen before. He doesn’t steal this movie so much as grant all Streep’s fluttering and twirling and hand-fanning an exuberant counterweight. In his review for the Washington Post, Michael O Sullivan called the film a very grown-up – and very funny – love story manages to be both light on its feet and heavy enough to deliver something of a message. He concluded: Food Network porn, hot, middle-age sex and a happy, if slightly bittersweet, ending. For a particular audience – but not just for that audience – what s not to love? Peter Travers of Rolling Stone called the film an unapologetic chick flick and wrote that you don t have to feel guilty for lapping up this froth. Just don t expect nourishment. He rated the film two and a half stars out of four.

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times also gave it two and a half stars and called the film a prime example of Meyers established cottage industry of movies about romantically inclined middle-aged people. He found praise for the cast of both Baldwin and Streep, the latter of whom he felt inspires as so often our belief that she s good at everything she does, but noted that while the film contained funny stuff and likeable characters, It s Complicated was more of a rearrangement of the goods in Nancy Meyers bakery, and some of them belong on the day-old shelf. Writing for Time magazine, Mary Pols complimented Streep s radiant, funny and endearingly vulnerable performance and Meyers clever and fresh intent in showing the reality of the fantasy coming true. However, she felt that It s Complicated is positioned more as a which-guy-will-she-choose story which misses dramatic tension to feed that plot line.

Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly gave the film a B− rating and declared the film a middle-aged porn, the specialty of Meyers, who also set ladies and interior decorators drooling over homes and gardens in 2006 s The Holiday. Lou Lumenick from New York Post stated that it coulda had more laughs, but in the spirit of seasonal good cheer, let me predict that the best-chocolate-croissant-making montage in Hollywood history is going to help this one clean up at the box office. He found that Martin seemed uncomfortable in his thankless role, while Streep and Baldwin, though, seem to be thoroughly enjoying themselves and compared the film to Noël Coward s classic farce Private Lives. Salon.com writer Stephanie Zacharek dismissed the film as another missive from romantic-comedy hell, and felt that Alec Baldwin -- in his undershorts, no less -- saves Nancy Meyers latest midlife whingefest.

Box office

Released on December 25, 2009 in the United States, the film opened in 2,887 locations and placed fourth on the US box office after its first weekend. It charted behind Avatar, Sherlock Holmes, and Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel with $22.1 million, scoring a $7,655 average income per theatre. It played well through the holidays and into January 2010, ultimately closing on April 1 with $112.7 million in North America and a total of $219.1 million worldwide.

Accolades

List of Awards and Nominations

Award	Category	Recipients	Result
Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards	Best Comedy Film	Film	Nominated
Golden Globe Awards	Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical	Meryl Streep	Nominated
	Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy	Film	Nominated
	Best Screenplay	Nancy Meyers	Nominated
National Board of Review of Motion Pictures Awards	Best Ensemble Cast	Film	Won
Satellite Awards	Best Film – Musical or Comedy	Film	Nominated
BAFTA Awards	Best Supporting Actor	Alec Baldwin	Nominated

Home media

It s Complicated became available on DVD and Blu-ray Tuesday, April 27, 2010.

Condition

New

Actor

Meryl Streep

Format

DVD

Age Group

Adult

Amazon ASIN

B07F97PMPY

UPC / EAN

025192033292

Year

2009

ReleaseDate

2009-12-25

RuntimeMins

120

RuntimeStr

2h

Awards

Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award, 8 wins & 15 nominations total

Directors

Nancy Meyers

Writers

Nancy Meyers

Stars

Meryl Streep, Steve Martin, Alec Baldwin

Produced by

Suzanne Farwell, Ilona Herzberg, Nancy Meyers, Scott Rudin

Music by

Heitor Pereira, Hans Zimmer

Cinematography by

John Toll

Film Editing by

Joe Hutshing, David Moritz

Casting By

Ellen Chenoweth, Debra Zane

Production Design by

Jon Hutman

Art Direction by

W. Steven Graham

Set Decoration by

Beth A. Rubino

Costume Design by

Sonia Grande

Makeup Department

Fríða Aradóttir, Margot Boccia, Anita Brabec, David Brian Brown, Joseph A. Campayno, Rose Chatterton, Jeong-Hwa Fonkalsrud, Dallas Hartnett, J. Roy Helland, Laurel Kelly, Barbara Lorenz, Patricia Regan, Jane Choi, Maria Alejandra Garcia, Valerie Gladstone-Appel, Joseph Regina, Cyndilee Rice, Susan Schectar

Production Management

Angela Heald, Margaret Hilliard, Denise Pinckley, Helen Pollak, Lisa Rodgers

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

Mirashyam Blakeslee, Paula Case, K.C. Colwell, Alex Hillkurtz, Sam Hoffman, Larry D. Katz, Maura Kelly, Amy Lauritsen, Nate Murphy, Guillermo Navarro, Travis Rehwaldt, Joseph P. Reidy, John Silvestri, Michael Hekmat, Emily Hogan

Art Department

Julie Albanese, Lawrence Amanuel, Rand Angelicola, Richard J. Bell, Mark Boucher, Jack Brandt, Thomas E. Brown, Kenneth Brzozowski, Diana Burton, Stephen Caldwell, Patrice Canfield Longo, Deborah Canfield, Philip Canfield, Carolyn Cartwright, Yongxi Chen, Paul Cheponis, Jason T. Clark, Stacy Clinger, Cathy J. Colby-Grauer, Richard Crain, Keith P. Cunningham, Vincent D Aquino, James M. Davis, Bob DeCourt, Ruth Deleon, Alan Easley, Samantha Feltus, Andrea Mae Fenton, Chris Ferraro, Andrew P. Flores, James Gilliar, Jane Gulick, Nancy Haigh, Amanda Harrington, Sean Hawk, Chris Heaps, Alex Hillkurtz, Richard Hoppe, Edward A. Ioffreda, John R. Johnston, Brian Jones, Richard W. Jones, Scott G. Jones, Judie Juracek, Caroline Keating, Tina Khayat, Hinju Kim, Adam Kirby, Anthony Klaiman, Ray Kluga, Hugh Landwehr, Roger Lang, John Leone, Ana Lombardo, Brick Mason, Lyle Maves, Merdyce McClaran, Ryan McGrath, Wayne Miller, Ken Nelson, Dan Ondrejko, Leah Palen, Jeff Passanante, Mark Peltzer, James Radin, Charlotte Raybourn, Diane Rich, Alexander Ross, Clint Schultz, Karl Shefelman, Sha-Sha Shiau, Bruce G. Smith, Easton Smith, Mark Sparks, David Stein, Jeffrey Thomas, Robert Topol, M. Tony Trotta, Edward L. Turk, Mark Tuttle, Peter Van Zyl, Dan Vranesich, Marc Vranesich, Tom Warren, Mark Weissenfluh, Kate Yatsko, Armando Abarca, Anthony Baldasare, John R. Boucher, Kevin L. Bright, Mark Lambert Bristol, Wendy Brown, Shane Buckallew, John Coda, Tim Davies, William Depaolo, Lexi Fry, Gregory P. Fuller, John Geisler, Caroline Ghertler, Hector M. Gonzalez, Adam Jones, David R. Lawson, Richard Lepore, David M. Milstien, Sky Nathan, Michael Lee Nirenberg, Michael Powsner, Annie Simeone, Peter Van Zyl

Sound Department

Brian Armstrong, Rick Canelli, Kelly Doran, Dennis Drummond, Kim Drummond, Ann Ducommun, David Giammarco, Gregg Harris, Jack Heeren, Xavier Horan, Mike Howells, Bobby Johanson, Randall L. Johnson, Goro Koyama, Anna MacKenzie, Andy Malcolm, Paul Massey, Danny Michael, Jonathan Norton, Thomas J. O Connell, Michelle Pazer, Dan Sharp, D. Chris Smith, Kira Smith, Don White, Mark Yardas, Jenna Dalla Riva, Brooke Graeff, Howard London, Beauxregard Neylen, Will Riley, Peter Schneider, Jason Stasium, Greg Steele, Greg Zimmerman

Special Effects by

Fred Buchholz, Doug Coleman, Garry Elmendorf, Erik Haraldsted, Fred Buchholz, Edward T. Reiff Jr.

Visual Effects by

Daniel Chuba, Aliza Corson Chameides, Robert Cribbett, Jon Doyle, Derick Dressel, Deborah Hiner, Les Hunter, Justin Jones, Kelly Rae Kenan Green, Michael Kennedy, Shira Mandel Kluger, Dan Levitan, Daniel Mellitz, Gavin Miljkovich, Fatima Mojaddidy, Eric Osmond, Linda Tremblay, Rick Whitfield, Christopher Cram

Stunts

Blaise Corrigan, Norman Douglass, Blaise Corrigan, Chris Object, Christopher Place, Matthew Porter, Stephen W. Schriver, Ray Siegle

Camera and Electrical Department

Bill Almeida, Robert Anderson, Scott Ballew, Angela Bellisio, Hilary Benas, Mike Bicknell, James Boniece, Sarah Brandes, Branch M. Brunson, Paul Candrilli, Henry Cantor, Patrick Capone, Tim Christie, Peter Clemence, Mark Combs, Will Dearborn, Shannon Deats, Ralph Del Castillo, Richard Dolan, Steven Edick, Jeffrey A. Eplett, Kevin Erb, Morris Flam, Doug Foote, Samuel G. Friedman, Jim Galvin, John Gatland, Eric Gearity, Melinda Sue Gordon, Quinn Grove, Shahen Guiragossian, Vincent P. Hale, Dana Hook, Nils Johnson, Thomas Landi, Mitchell Andrew Lillian, Clay Liversidge, Dennis J. Lootens, William Louthe, Gary Louzon, John Loveless, Kevin Lowry, Glen Magers, Lee Majors, John Maltbie, Rick Marroquin, Michael A. McFadden, Monique Mitchell, Juan Morse, Jonathan Norton, John O Malley, John Oliveri, Haydn Pazanti, Andrew Peck, Mark Rappaport, Peter Reniers, Donis Rhoden, Felix Rivera, Peter Rosenfeld, Austin Salisbury, David Scott, Dennis Seawright, Alan Shultz, Darrin Smith, Eric Swanek, Mike Thomas, Nicky Nuckles Vaccaro, Mark van Rossen, Tomas von Rauchhaupt, Fritz Weber, James Wilsey-Murphy, Antar Abderrahman Jr., Olga Abramson, Tristan Allen, Richard A. Anderson, Tony Arnaud, Nico Bally, John Billeci, Doug Cordonier, James Dombey, Max Frankston, Chris Funk, Ted Goodwin, Michael N. Green, Emily Millay Haddad, Don Haggerty, Tommy Klines, Steve Koster, Jeff Lomaglio, Dwayne McClintock, Guillermo Navarro, Antonio Ponti, Guillaume Renberg, Peter Rosenfeld, Daniel D. Sariano, Eric Swanek

Casting Department

Maryellen Aviano, Beth Bowling, Ranjani Brow, Susie Farris, Wendy Hoffman, Megan Larche, Geoffrey Miclat, Kim Miscia, Amelia Rasche McCarthy, Nadia Lubbe Simon, Tannis Vallely, Grant Wilfley, Debra Zane, Jenny-Lind Angel, Lauren Bass, Claire Benjamin, Melissa Braun, Lauren Cokeley, Casey Dady, Kimberly Ehrlich, Stephanie Forrest, Allison Hall, Erin Hughes, Matt Kane, Helen McCready, Jamie Schulman, Aubrey Villareal, Wendy Washbrook

Costume and Wardrobe Department

Denise Andres, Natalie Arango, Valentina Aulisi, Myron Baker, Suzanne Cranfill, Lisa A. Doyle, Nina Johnston, Cheryl Kilbourne-Kimpton, Vern Malone, Laura McCarthy, Grace Pyke, Amanda Ross, Hilary Sahn, Autumn Saville, Hayley Stuppel, Wade Sullivan, Amy L. Teets, Kanani Wolf, Gina Battoglia, Danielle Cadorette, Nina Cinelli, Havi Elkaim, Meghan Kasperlik, Jared B. Leese, Terri Middleton, Angela Mirabella, Caroline Quiroga, Yaneya Rovira, Monica Ruiz-Ziegler, Cassiopeia Smith, Martha Smith, Serge Walker, Kristina West, Jeffrey Wirsing

Editorial Department

David Bilow, Alex Brownley, Des Carey, Salvatore Catanzaro, Elliott Eisman, Ryan C. Fill, Stephen Nakamura, Carrie Puchkoff, Jonathan Schwartz, Cheryl A. Tkach, Taylor Black, John Bonta, Gardner Gould, Donald Likovich, James Nichols Jr., Jeff Smithwick, Arthur Tremeau, Gina Zappala

Location Management

Matt Anderson, Jillian Demmerle, Grace Doherty, Damon Michael Gordon, Zachary Kahn, David B. Lyons, Ryan Neary, John Panzarella, David Park, Andrew Poppoon, Antonio Ragona, Carter Schmitt, Paul Singh, Laura Sode-Matteson, Robert T. Striem, Leslie Thorson, Lori A. Balton, Ernest Belding, Peter Gonzalez, Amanda Harrington, Kenneth Hunter, Daniel Pollack, Richard Michael Raine, Paul Singh

Music Department

Ryeland Allison, Tom Broderick, Sandy DeCrescent, Jack Dolman, Mark Eshelman, Bruce Fowler, Walt Fowler, Rick Giovinazzo, Nick Glennie-Smith, Endre Granat, Bonnie Greenberg, Henry Jackman, Kevin Kaska, Steven Kofsky, Greg Loskorn, Stephanie Lowry, Larry Mah, David Marquette, Hallie Meyers-Shyer, Alan Meyerson, Adam Michalak, Kathy Nelson, Sandra Park, Heitor Pereira, Satnam Ramgotra, Peter Rotter, Ryan Rubin, Czarina Russell, Andrew Silver, Mark Wherry, Booker White, Andrew Zack, Tim Boot, Anastasia Brown, Robert Danzey-Persaud, Nick Delaplane, Opie Gruves, The Hollywood Studio Symphony, Daniel Kresco, Frank Macchia, David Metzner, Aaron Meyer, Julia Michels, Satoshi Mark Noguchi, Sandra Park, Daniel Rojas, Carl Rydlund, Lee Scott, Greg Vines, Sebastian Zuleta

Script and Continuity Department

Jeanne Byrd, Paul D. Fischer

Transportation Department

Joseph Buonocore, Neil Marshall, Mike McGoldrick, Kenny Searle, Chris Walden, James Patrick Whalen Jr., David Becerra, Robert C. Cawley, Don Haggerty, Alana McGaughy, Jimmy Ray Pickens, Frank Porras, David Urich

Additional Crew

Alexander Barrow, Alex Berard, Joseph K. Borrelli, Allan Bragg, Michael Braun, Jamie Buckner, Ibrahim Brian Bulinski, Silvia Veronica Cadmilema, Anne Carlisle, Abby Coon, Eileen M. Dennis, Ethan Duffy, Erin Engman, Niko Godfrey, Kristin Gomez, Mark Hagerman, Teddy M. Haggarty, Heidi Harlan, Laura Heaney, Scott M. Hevesy, Sean R. Jackson, Katrina Kaufman, David Kennedy, April Klimko, Laura H. Kreft, Ethnee Lea, Jessica Lichtner, Tory Littman, Ismael Martinez, Rachel Layne McDonald, Matthew Milan, Eric Myers, Matthew Nemeth, Elizabeth Neveu, Jason Orley, Alison Parraco, Kathy Petty, Joey Pizzi, Matthew Porter, Dustin Pownall, Nicholas Ramirez, Yvonne Ramond, Michael Reilly, Kim Rideout, Wilson Rivas, Brittany Rostron, Yaneya Rovira, Simon Scott, Hana Scott-Suhrstedt, Gladys Silvera, Colleen Slattery, Cassiopeia Smith, Zack Smith, Andrea Sooch, Susan Spungen, Donald Sultan, Karen Turner, Lora Umphress, Ashley Van Buren, Jenny Ward, Ilene Waterstone, Lia Williams, Kori E. Wilson, Donald E. Wygal, Keith Young, Nick Zayas, Ahmet Ahmet, Andrew P. Alderete, Sam Alvelo, Dawn Barkan, Nicole Basile, Kelley Beaman, Sebastien Betsch, Wendy Cohen, Lyman Creason, Catherine Feeny, Rich Fellegara, Cara Fitzgerald, Kristin Gomez, Charles Gough, David Goulard, Kevin Graham-Caso, Eddie Griffith, Jennifer Hackney, John Hamilton, Tina Hamilton, Gale Hansen, Robert Hatfield, Henry Humphreys, Jeff Joslin, Ryan Kaercher, Abby Kingston, David R. Lawson, Brendan C. Lynch, Maggie Martin, Olivia McCallum, Teresa Nance, Brian Papworth, Ivan Paric, Debbie Pearl, Kurt Peloquin, Laura Pena, Airica Prange, Travis Rehwaldt, Marlaine Reiner, Mishi Reyes, Buck P.B.D. Rodgers, Jessie Rodgers, Yaneya Rovira, Jackson Rowe, Jason Salzman, Karla Shelton, Matthew Switzer, Christina Thompson, Nathan Tomaszewski, Randy Weiss, Tony Whitmore, Karin Elena Wolf, Jac Woods, Will Zullo, Frank Zwick

Thanks

David Hooper

Genres

Comedy, Drama, Romance

Companies

Universal Pictures, Relativity Media, Waverly Films

Countries

Japan, USA

Languages

English, French

ContentRating

R

ImDbRating

6.5

ImDb Rating Votes

92893

Metacritic Rating

57

Short Description

It s Complicated is a 2009 American romantic comedy film written and directed by Nancy Meyers. It stars Meryl Streep as a bakery owner and single mother of three who starts a secret affair with her ex-husband, played by Alec Baldwin, ten years after their divorce – only to find herself drawn to another man: her architect, Adam (portrayed by Steve Martin). The film also features supporting performances by Lake Bell, Hunter Parrish, Zoe Kazan, John Krasinski, Mary Kay Place, Robert Curtis Brown, and Rita Wilson, among others.

The film was met with average reviews from critics, who praised the acting of its ensemble cast but declared its story rather predictable. It became another commercial hit for Meyers, however, upon its Christmas Day 2009 opening release in the United States and Canada. It played well through the holidays and into January 2010, ultimately closing on April 1 with $112.7 million. Worldwide, It s Complicated eventually grossed $219.1 million, and surpassed The Holiday (2006) to become Meyer s third-highest-grossing project to date.

For their performances, the cast was awarded a National Board of Review of Motion Pictures Award for Best Ensemble Cast the same year. In addition, the film was nominated at both the Critics Choice Awards and the Satellite Awards and garnered Meyers two Golden Globe nominations, including Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and Best Screenplay. Streep and Baldwin each were individually recognized with Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor nominations at the Golden Globe and BAFTA award ceremonies, respectively.

Box Office Budget

$85,000,000 (estimated)

Box Office Opening Weekend USA

$22,100,820

Box Office Gross USA

$112,735,375

Box Office Cumulative Worldwide Gross

$219,103,655

Keywords

Mature romance,female protagonist,lovers,ex husband ex wife rekindling their relationship,divorced couple