Something’s Gotta Give

Make sure to check out Criterion’s Polaroid wall, located in the Walter Reade Theater’s lobby throughout the series. For attendees on Saturday, February 14 don’t miss your chance to have your own Polaroid taken and bring it home in a special Criterion-branded envelope.

The fourth collaboration between Keaton and screenwriter-turned-director Nancy Meyers (following Baby Boom and Father of the Bride parts 1 and 2), Something’s Gotta Give also saw Keaton reteaming with Reds costar Jack Nicholson for what would prove to be her most critically beloved and commercially successful film of the 2000s. As emblematic of its decade’s rom-com sensibility as Annie Hall in the 1970s, the film afforded its star a zeitgeist-defining outlet for her endlessly surprising comedic instincts. Keaton received her fourth Oscar nomination for her performance as Erica Barry, a celebrated playwright and thriving divorcée whose long-dormant love life is suddenly, unexpectedly thrown into disarray when she finds herself torn between an unexpected chemistry with her grown daughter’s much older boyfriend, Harry (Jack Nicholson)—a media mogul and inveterate playboy who suffers a heart attack during a weekend getaway at Erica’s Hamptons vacation home—and the affections of Julian (Keanu Reeves), the much younger doctor overseeing Harry’s treatment while he recuperates under Erica’s care.