A Work in Progress: It’s Complicated Begins Over the past 30 years, Nancy Meyers has made several successful romantic comedies featuring adult characters forced to come face-to-face with truths they’ve long been avoiding. Throughout the years, the filmmaker has incorporated her own life experiences into her work. In It’s Complicated, she taps into the world…
It’s Complicated (2009)
Tagline: Divorced… with benefits. Jane Adler (two-time Academy Award winner Meryl Streep) is the mother of three grown kids, owns a thriving Santa Barbara bakery / restaurant and has-after a decade of divorce-an amicable relationship with her ex-husband, attorney Jake (Alec Baldwin). But when Jane and Jake find themselves out of town for their son’s…
Jennifer’s Body Production Notes (2009)
About the Production After writing “Juno,” which Diablo Cody describes as a warm, sweet, life-affirming movie, she wanted to venture into darker territory. “I wanted to write something that was about my fears, something that was a little edgy and eerie, but also funny,” Cody notes. As in “Juno,” Cody uses an offbeat writing voice…
Jennifer’s Body (2009)
Tagline: She’s evil… and not just high school evil. Anita “Needy” Lesnicki (Amanda Seyfried), once an insecure and bookish teenager in a Twin Cities area suburb, is now a violent mental inmate who narrates the story as a flashback while in solitary confinement. She has been friends with a selfish and popular cheerleader, Jennifer Check…
Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience (2009)
The film blends excerpts from the Brothers’ “Burning Up” concert tour, including guest performances from Demi Lovato and Taylor Swift, with exclusive behind-the-scenes footage, off-the-wall segments, a never-before-heard song (“Love Is On Its Way”), swarming fans and a lot of JB-style humor—giving fans never-before-seen insights into the lives of Kevin, Joe and Nick. In this…
Julia Movie Production Notes (2009)
They spend two days in preparation for the exchange. Julia and Tommy start to interact more. Julia leaves Tommy in the desert, promising him that she will bring him to his mum, before she drives into the city to get the ransom. But before Julia gets the money from the locker at the bus station,…