Something's Gotta Give (2003)

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Wikidata Q584766, film, IMDb tt0337741, TMDB 6964: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by episode credits Diane Keaton as actor (‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins); 1 more episode agrees.

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Who talked about it

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Came from

What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Meet the Parents: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. programming (programming): Meet the Parents ⇒ Something's Gotta Give (the host's read). Nicholson may have seen Meet the Parents and wanted a piece of that audience.
    “Do you think he saw meet the parents and was like, I can do that too?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 0:05:06 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

Led to

What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.

No line says another film or person drew on it.

Connected to

It's Complicated: 5 lines contrast ×3 craft ×1 theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): It's Complicated → Something's Gotta Give. Meyers's idea of how children process divorce is drawn from her own children.
    “I think Nancy Meyers perception of how children process a divorce is entirely based on her children.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 0:50:14 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Nancy Meyers: 3 lines craft ×2 career ×1

  1. career (career path): Nancy Meyers → Something's Gotta Give. After the divorce she developed a corner of films about women of a certain age thriving in later life.
    “the corner that she eventually develops is like woman of a certain age, just real, like figuring out how to thrive in later life”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 0:22:18 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them)

Meet the Parents: 2 lines programming ×1 industry ×1

  1. programming (programming): Meet the Parents → Something's Gotta Give. Nicholson may have seen Meet the Parents and wanted a piece of that audience.
    “Do you think he saw meet the parents and was like, I can do that too?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 0:05:06 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

The Intern: 2 lines verdict ×1 industry ×1

  1. industry (industry): The Intern → Something's Gotta Give. The Intern's press story gave people permission to revisit all of Meyers's movies.
    “it gave them permission to revisit all of her movies with that eye”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 0:40:48 · Bobby Finger (0.55 sure it was them)

About Schmidt: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): About Schmidt → Something's Gotta Give. Nicholson was nominated for About Schmidt because he played against type; critics punished him for doing Jack elsewhere.
    “the only modern one he gets the nomination for is about Schmidt, because he played so thoroughly against hype.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:11:33 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Anger Management: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): Anger Management → Something's Gotta Give. After a bad run and time off, Nicholson came back to light comedy: Anger Management, then this.
    “He came back with anger management, something's got to give.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 0:04:53 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Bringing Down the House: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (industry): Bringing Down the House → Something's Gotta Give. Steve Martin's two 2003 hits made a second wave of him.
    “this weird 2nd wave of Steve Martin”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 2:00:36 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Defending Your Life: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): Something's Gotta Give → Defending Your Life. The white, bleached look makes the film read like a heaven set, like Defending Your Life.
    “It looks like defending your life or something.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:03:34 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Diane Keaton: 1 line verdict ×1

  1. verdict (career apex): Something's Gotta Give → Diane Keaton. Keaton's mainstream apex is Something's Gotta Give, her full Meyers star vehicle, while her true Apex Mountain is Annie Hall.
    “it's something's got to give, which is her like full Nancy Meyers movie that she stars in.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 1:02:20 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them)

Jack Nicholson: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): Something's Gotta Give → Jack Nicholson. The film is a deconstruction of Nicholson's own star persona.
    “It's very much a deconstruction of his star persona.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 0:05:47 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Jerry Maguire: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Something's Gotta Give → Jerry Maguire. Its time-jumping structure of long scenes then skips is like Jerry Maguire.
    “It's very, it's very Jerry Maguire in that.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 0:24:24 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

La La Land: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Something's Gotta Give → La La Land. Keaton's character's play, with its mirror staging, recalls Emma Stone's one-woman show in La La Land.
    “it reminds me a lot of Emma Stone's one woman show in La La Land.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:30:19 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

Michael: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Michael → Something's Gotta Give. Keanu as a possible angel prompts a question whether it remakes Michael.
    “Is this a remake of Michael?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:01:31 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

Orange County: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (industry): Something's Gotta Give → Orange County. Butterfly was already a running joke in Orange County, so it was stale for this film's opening.
    “And Orange County makes the running joke of everyone's listening to butterfly.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 0:48:13 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Ratatouille: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Something's Gotta Give → Ratatouille. The Paris shot with the Eiffel Tower looks like Ratatouille, and the speaker starts to say the music does too.
    “the shot when he steps out and the Eiffel Towers behind him is one of the ones that looks like Ratatouille. The music also sounds like...”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:43:29 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)

Stuck on You: 1 line programming ×1

  1. programming (programming): Stuck on You → Something's Gotta Give. Stuck on You opened the same week as the film and ranked number three.
    “Big broad comedy, high concept.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:54:21 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

The Departed: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): Something's Gotta Give → The Departed. Nicholson in this film is partway toward his Departed performance.
    “He's like 40% of the way to his departed performance.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:11:05 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

The Grand Budapest Hotel: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): Something's Gotta Give → The Grand Budapest Hotel. Like Grand Budapest, the film explains why its maker is so fussy: to build a fantasy world people can escape to.
    “the Ray Fines character explained to the audience why Wes Anderson is so fussy about these things”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:31:56 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)

The Parent Trap: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): The Parent Trap → Something's Gotta Give. Parent Trap may be her favorite directed film, but this is the Nancy Meyers movie.
    “oh, Parent Trap might be your favorite movie that she directed, but someone's got to give is the Nancy Myers movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 0:27:02 · unknown (0.45 sure it was them)

What Women Want: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): What Women Want → Something's Gotta Give. What Women Want has no Nancy-surrogate character, unlike this film.
    “Helen Hunt is not Nancy Myers at all.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:18:44 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

career (3)

  1. career (career path): Nancy Meyers → Something's Gotta Give. After the divorce she developed a corner of films about women of a certain age thriving in later life.
    “the corner that she eventually develops is like woman of a certain age, just real, like figuring out how to thrive in later life”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 0:22:18 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Anger Management → Something's Gotta Give. After a bad run and time off, Nicholson came back to light comedy: Anger Management, then this.
    “He came back with anger management, something's got to give.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 0:04:53 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Something's Gotta Give → The Departed. Nicholson in this film is partway toward his Departed performance.
    “He's like 40% of the way to his departed performance.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:11:05 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

contrast (6)

  1. contrast (contrast): The Parent Trap → Something's Gotta Give. Parent Trap may be her favorite directed film, but this is the Nancy Meyers movie.
    “oh, Parent Trap might be your favorite movie that she directed, but someone's got to give is the Nancy Myers movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 0:27:02 · unknown (0.45 sure it was them)
  2. contrast (contrast): About Schmidt → Something's Gotta Give. Nicholson was nominated for About Schmidt because he played against type; critics punished him for doing Jack elsewhere.
    “the only modern one he gets the nomination for is about Schmidt, because he played so thoroughly against hype.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:11:33 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. contrast (contrast): What Women Want → Something's Gotta Give. What Women Want has no Nancy-surrogate character, unlike this film.
    “Helen Hunt is not Nancy Myers at all.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:18:44 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. contrast (contrast): Something's Gotta Give → It's Complicated. It has aged much better than It's Complicated, which people wrongly rank above it.
    “it has aged so much better than it's complicated.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:25:45 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. contrast (contrast): It's Complicated → Something's Gotta Give. It's Complicated is the sketch-comedy version of this film.
    “it's complicated, feels like the sketch comedy version of this.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:26:17 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  6. contrast (contrast): It's Complicated → Something's Gotta Give. The daughter here has more grace than Lake Bell's character in It's Complicated.
    “there's more grace in this to her versus like the Lake Bell character”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:28:35 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

craft (6)

  1. craft (craft): Something's Gotta Give → It's Complicated. The same trick: a strong supporting character is big in the first half hour and then drops out.
    “This movie does the exact same thing that it's complicated does”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 0:23:39 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft): Something's Gotta Give → Jerry Maguire. Its time-jumping structure of long scenes then skips is like Jerry Maguire.
    “It's very, it's very Jerry Maguire in that.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 0:24:24 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. craft (craft): Something's Gotta Give → Nancy Meyers. The film's structure is Meyers's own and unlike her Meyers-Shyer collaborations.
    “this is Nancy Meyers storytelling style and is distinctly different than the Meyers shire collaborations.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 0:24:35 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. craft (craft): Something's Gotta Give → La La Land. Keaton's character's play, with its mirror staging, recalls Emma Stone's one-woman show in La La Land.
    “it reminds me a lot of Emma Stone's one woman show in La La Land.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:30:19 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  5. craft (craft): Something's Gotta Give → Ratatouille. The Paris shot with the Eiffel Tower looks like Ratatouille, and the speaker starts to say the music does too.
    “the shot when he steps out and the Eiffel Towers behind him is one of the ones that looks like Ratatouille. The music also sounds like...”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:43:29 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
  6. craft (craft): Something's Gotta Give → Nancy Meyers. A speaker says Meyers's signature score sound, including the delicate Spanish guitar, begins with this film.
    “This is where her like, you know, her like delicate like Spanish guitar comes in for the 1st time.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:43:47 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)

industry (4)

  1. industry (industry): Meet the Parents → Something's Gotta Give. The two comedies are aimed at the same viewer.
    “that's what these movies, they're they're aimed at the same viewer.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 0:05:12 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  2. industry (industry): The Intern → Something's Gotta Give. The Intern's press story gave people permission to revisit all of Meyers's movies.
    “it gave them permission to revisit all of her movies with that eye”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 0:40:48 · Bobby Finger (0.55 sure it was them)
  3. industry (industry): Something's Gotta Give → Orange County. Butterfly was already a running joke in Orange County, so it was stale for this film's opening.
    “And Orange County makes the running joke of everyone's listening to butterfly.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 0:48:13 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. industry (industry): Bringing Down the House → Something's Gotta Give. Steve Martin's two 2003 hits made a second wave of him.
    “this weird 2nd wave of Steve Martin”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 2:00:36 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (lineage): Michael → Something's Gotta Give. Keanu as a possible angel prompts a question whether it remakes Michael.
    “Is this a remake of Michael?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:01:31 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

programming (2)

  1. programming (programming): Meet the Parents → Something's Gotta Give. Nicholson may have seen Meet the Parents and wanted a piece of that audience.
    “Do you think he saw meet the parents and was like, I can do that too?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 0:05:06 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  2. programming (programming): Stuck on You → Something's Gotta Give. Stuck on You opened the same week as the film and ranked number three.
    “Big broad comedy, high concept.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:54:21 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

theme (4)

  1. theme (theme): Something's Gotta Give → Jack Nicholson. The film is a deconstruction of Nicholson's own star persona.
    “It's very much a deconstruction of his star persona.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 0:05:47 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. theme (theme): It's Complicated → Something's Gotta Give. Meyers's idea of how children process divorce is drawn from her own children.
    “I think Nancy Meyers perception of how children process a divorce is entirely based on her children.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 0:50:14 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. theme (theme): Something's Gotta Give → Defending Your Life. The white, bleached look makes the film read like a heaven set, like Defending Your Life.
    “It looks like defending your life or something.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:03:34 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. theme (theme): Something's Gotta Give → The Grand Budapest Hotel. Like Grand Budapest, the film explains why its maker is so fussy: to build a fantasy world people can escape to.
    “the Ray Fines character explained to the audience why Wes Anderson is so fussy about these things”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:31:56 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)

verdict (2)

  1. verdict (career apex): Something's Gotta Give → Diane Keaton. Keaton's mainstream apex is Something's Gotta Give, her full Meyers star vehicle, while her true Apex Mountain is Annie Hall.
    “it's something's got to give, which is her like full Nancy Meyers movie that she stars in.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 1:02:20 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. verdict (verdict): Something's Gotta Give → The Intern. Saying it is Meyers's best movie.
    “it's her best movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 0:09:48 · Bobby Finger (0.50 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

  1. fun, about Something's Gotta Give: Fox turned the film down because the leads were too old, per IMDb trivia.
    “Fox turned this down because they said the leads were too old.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 0:03:09 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Something's Gotta Give: The script as written in 2002 named Ja Rule's Living It Up for the opening; the film used Crazy Town's Butterfly.
    “Nancy Myers penned the words, Ja Rule, living it up.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 0:47:45 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Something's Gotta Give: Romley Newman: this is the most kitchen-heavy Meyers movie, with an amazing Viking range and huge island.
    “this is the most kitchen heavy movie out of any Nancy Myers movie, probably any movie ever.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 0:58:35 · Romley Newman (0.80 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Something's Gotta Give: A reading: Nicholson is in a heavenly afterlife after his heart attack, hence the all-white look.
    “there are very few movies that commit so hard to their color palette being white.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:03:12 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Something's Gotta Give: The characters say 'me too' to each other constantly, which jumps out now.
    “how many times in this movie they say, me too.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:20:34 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about Something's Gotta Give: Keaton wears turtlenecks until she is bare-necked; the neck insecurity pays off visually.
    “And then for the rest of the movie, she's wearing V-neck.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:25:13 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Who the speakers said made it

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