It has been established in previous posts that I am no longer ahead of the game when it comes to films; I can now wait for DVD and/or OnDemand. I chose to watch this film after a somewhat trying day at the office when I just wanted to zone out and be entertained.
Summary: Jane Adler (Meryl Streep) reconnects with and has an affair with her married ex-husband (Alex Baldwin), while flirting with her architect (Steve Martin) in the first relationship she has had in ten years. High anxiety situations ensue.
In a modern day Doris Day/Rock Hudson film, directed by Nancy Meyers, team Streep/Baldwin/Martin take you along while they have fun making a movie. Casting can be everything. I have to mention John Krasinski (Harley), who is an almost too perfect future son-in-law but who brings some laughs to the adventure. He, I suppose, would be the single friend or Tony Randall in my Doris Day/Rock Hudson comparison.
Most of the storyline was predictable and relied on easy, broad laughs; sometimes, there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. I won't pick apart the Baldwin character, even though I soooo could. For me, the more perfect ending would have been at the moment Streep and Baldwin are sitting in the front yard swing. I imagine that would have been too vague an ending for a test audience, and so we got the ending that we did.
I suppose the same film about a divorced woman raising three children while her ex-husband marries a younger woman and starts a new family, and one without an interesting job, great salary, time for Pilates, and four close and funny female friends would be called an indie film.
In the world of films, I would consider it 'cute'. 3 1/2 out of 5 stars
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