It’s Complicated
It’s Complicated stars Meryl Streep as Jane, a California divorcee who has an affair with a married man around the time of her middle child’s college graduation. The laugh (and a last one at that) is that the married man is her ex-husband Jake (Alec Baldwin) who is now cheating on his current trophy wife Agness (Lake Bell) with whom he used to cheat on Jane. This is sweet music to Joanne (Mary Kay Place), Trisha (Rita Wilson), Sally (Nora Dunn) and Diane (Alexandra Wentworth) Jane’s first wives club but old embers are starting to flare with Jake just as a more sensible relationship is brewing with Adam (Steve Martin) Jane’s architect who not only has designs on her kitchen but also on her. Can Jake really let go of his child bride or should Jane start building something new with the architect? Like any affair, anyone can start one but it take a genius to resolve one gracefully and here that’s when these complications get clumsy. Streep and Baldwin are too professional to let this passable script falter and massage some heart laughs but It’s Complicated is not really any more complicated than the dictates of the Hollywood movie formula.