[Boomer]

It's Complicated is the new Meryl Streep movie. She plays a woman in her 50's who has an affair with her ex-husband, played by Alec Baldwin. He had left her ten years ago for a younger woman, to whom he is now married. (At one point, Baldwin's character describes himself as "a walking cliché.")

Steve Martin plays an architect who is designing a new kitchen for Meryl Streep. (She is always cooking in this movie, too. I guess she is still somewhat in Julia Child mode.)

I liked the movie a lot. And I knew the screenplay had to have been written by a woman. So I looked it up and found that the writer/director was Nancy Meyers who wrote Something's Gotta Give, the movie with Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton, from a few years ago. Meyers writes from the perspective of being 60 years old, so she understands the characters she is writing.

Anyway, it is a good movie. And at the end Meryl Streep picks the right man. But some of you might disagree. (Maybe we will have to talk about that some night over in the "Girl Talk" thread.)

Boomer