Beanbioca As Good As It Gets

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Roman Sampson One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Ramneek Suri Pleasant romantic drama for the older set with Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin. Streep and Baldwin have appealing chemistry which papers over the holes in the script. Baldwin specially seems to be enjoying himself. Streep makes the most of a well written role. Martin feels a touch miscast in a dramatic role.Watchable7/10

Maria Trim Loved it maybe i am easily pleased, but what a combination of talent, Steve Martin, Meryl Streep, and Alec Baldwin. Great acting good story, and i laughed a lot through out the story, especially with the laptop omg so funny a classic moment i will never forget. Meryl Streep is so beautiful and looks great for her age. Yes i enjoyed it, it kept my interest right the way through, and i am still chuckling over the laptop scene. They don't make romantic comedies like this enough as far as I am concerned, its just not complicated, it is what is on the box easy to watch cant believe i had missed it for so long but glad i have watched it now.

Katerina Robertovla I highly recommend reading the IMDb review titled "Garbage." This reviewer tackled all the major failures in this film and I totally agree with him. So, I will not restate those points, but will offer just a few of my own comments.Here's my two cents: I feel the script, directing and subsequent acting is grossly sub-par. If I have to see Meryl Streep laugh like a 13 year old one more time I'm going to throw up. The whole company of actors in this film are simply mugging for the camera. It is just hammy, hammy, hammy all the way around.This brings to mind the hilarious SNL skits titled "Master Thespian." Jon Lovitz is superb as he skewers actors. If you do a Google search for SNL + Jon Lovitz + Master Thespian + NBC, you will find there are seven skits at the NBC website to enjoy. They are all beautifully written, acted and directed. Simply genius."Acting!""Genius!""Thank you! "

spelvini Every time Alec Baldwin appears on screen in this flick in some gnarly moment immersed in emotional conflict between his ex-wife Meryl Streep and children there's always slightly bitter-sweet feelings in the viewer because we're reminded of his real-life domestic issues between him and his real ex-wife Kim Bassinger and their child which were made so public when the power couple officially broke up.Successful restaurant owner Jane Adler (Meryl Streep) is saddened as her three children have all moved out and when her ex-husband attorney Jake Adler (Alec Baldwin) approaches her for a romantic reconnecting she must reevaluate their differences and possible new beginning. Jake's current trophy wife Agness (LakeBell) is pressuring Jake for another child, and sensitive architect Adam Schaffer (Steve Martin) begins a relationship with Jane. As Jake and Jane go through numerous sexual exploits they begin to understand themselves better and their differences and when it seems there is no hope for the future, they realize just what they mean to each other.These are fleeting nano-moments as Baldwin manages to anchor this movie in ways that allow the mediocre writing to soar. His character never comes off as some obnoxious attorney but rather as a needy sincere professional approaching his golden years. His argument to Streep's Jane at one point is solid when he claims that they are in the perfect place in their lives to make it work between them, since the children are moved out and they can finally spend time with each other without distraction.The who-cares attitude we get from the picture is infused by the antics of the lead characters Jake and Jane and the overt way that the script insists on hitting the clichéd high points in the narrative and the feel-good gee, what-if concept of two successful middle-aged people having an affair since one of them has divorce and married a trophy wife.Even the script is pastry thin. Writer/director Nancy Meyers wisely hands the material over to a stalwart cast Meryl Streep, Steve Martin, Alec Baldwin, John Krasinski, and Lake Bell and although the real comedic heavy lifting is managed by Baldwin, his partner Meryl Streep shows her particular comedic side as a lonely successful business woman and mother in her fifties who hasn't dated in years.Writer/director Nancy Meyers relates the entire commerce between men and women to food, and in particular to how food, and drink bond couples and families. When Jake and Jane reconnect it occurs during a mistaken meal together that they stumble on, opening the door to a night of renewed coupling. When Jane turns it on to win over Adam's affection an extensive sequence involves their preparing chocolate croissants which brings their love together.Jane's core problem with her relationships is that it is defined by her handling of food, and by extension her male partners are insulated by how they redefine meals and other consumables. After a night of getting high and dancing Jane drags Adam back to her factory and in essence puts him to work before making love to him using the food as a conduit. When Jane agrees to a nightly tryst with Jake she temps him with a voiced menu including his favorite chocolate cake, and when Jake stands her up.The core issues with Jane's inability to connect with men is reflected in her own inability to connect honestly with her own feelings, so when she urgently tracks down her analyst and asks him to tell it's okay to have an affair with her married husband, she is relived when he merely suggest that she "let it go" and explore what she feels about Jake.The movie also stacks the deck with some characters coming across with little sympathy. LakeBell's trophy wife Agness is a no-nonsense single mother who lacks little soft points. She orders Jake around and has him going to a fertility lab every other day so they can have a child of their own. It is a shame that Agness isn't given more sympathetic moments. She is introduced as a snake charmer who harangues Jake through several scenes and only manages to get one humanizing moment when she looks at Jake and sees his love for Jane.Agness's young son from a previous marriage Emjay Anthony's Pedro is an undisciplined terror, and Jake is helpless and unmotivated to rein him in. In one small scene the Gestapo-type cross examination that Pedro lays on Jake will make any single mother rethink her home-schooling techniques.If you have gone through a divorce, or even had a break up, and even if you're not in a mid-life love affair, you'll have a fun time watching Baldwin, Streep and all the others in this bedroom farce, which delivers some real poignancy at the end.