Over four decades, she has created a very specific filmmaking language.
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ANancy Meyersmovie is comfort incarnate.
Nobody looks for love, but everyone stumbles upon it.
There is at least one hospital visit often as a by-product of sex and at least one hot doctor.
Children, when they appear, are precocious and wry.
There is at least one beautifully roasted chicken and a lot of white wine.
Over four-plus decades of filmmaking, Meyers has created her own, very specific cinematic world and language.
She is career focused, independent, and a little bit lonely.
Mid-movie, she shops for gourmet groceries.
Sex itself is rendered comic.
yo grab your own towering glass of Chardonnay and join me.
The movie follows Hawn as a cocktail waitress who incidentally stops a terrorist attack.
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I honestly cant tell you what happens in this movie.
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This is in part, of course, because she wrote it early on, at age 30.
What is this list if not a subtle summary of the naked desires of many of Meyerss subsequent protagonists?
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All of the Nancy Meyers elements are there, but it does not evoke the same feelings.
The film is aWestworldrobot version of a Nancy Meyers movie.
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Theres some leftover Nobu.
(+1 white wine glass)Whats Nobu?
In the meantime, Steve Martin loses his mind and tries to sell his insanely gorgeous house.
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It is also the only Nancy Meyers movie to star two people fromWorkaholicsand to explicitly feature an erection.
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Its also one of Meyerss first films that uses a house as … a metaphor for life!
This time, the house is in Vermont, and it is gorgeous but falling apart at the seams.
You know the rest!
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Its not in my nature.
Its a sweet, heartwarming movie absolutely brimming with Nancy Meyers vibes.
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Love when you arent looking!
Fantastical circumstances leading to cross-continental twins discovering each others identities!
I am running out of new ways to say these things!
Im also running out of words forcozyandwarm.
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I literally cant imagine this movie not being 136 minutes long.
Winslet and Eli Wallach are in another movie that is basically a fledglingThe Internwith more fun gossip.
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And it is the word count on this article.
At this point, you understand what I am getting at here.
This movie is like if you turned Nancy Meyers herself into a bottle of white wine and chugged it.
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Dont ask questions!!
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