The entire cast is engaging, there’s no falsely engineered conflict that stretches the film’s credibility, and ultimately Nicholson’s character is put on a journey of self-discovery that rings pretty true.
Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton doing a romantic comedy together is something that should have happened a lot more throughout the course of Hollywood history.
The film certainly plays just as well as it did on day one, as it succeeds in a lot of places a typical rom-com tends to fail through.
At least, that’s what it feels like after watching them effortlessly play off of each other in Something’s Gotta Give, which is already somehow 14 years old!