If this movie came out in 2003, then wasn't it the same time to when "Something's Gotta Give" also premiered? She is after all 57 years old and it looks like she was 50 when she had her youngest child in the movie.
Other than that I thought it was a very good movie. I'm glad to see Lothaire Bluteau in the movie as well. He's a very good and kind actor.
Does it really matter when the movie came out as long as Diane did the great job she always does. Don't forget she also has two children of her own at her young age, a daughter age 8 and a son age 3. Diane does not look like a lady over 45yrs. old.
Other than that Diane and the movie were excellent am I correct. It is to bad that some people don't take the time out to look at characters before judging them, as we all know Ms. Keaton is well known for any type of acting.
Diane looks every day of 57 and then some.
Her real-life children are adopted. She did not give birth at 50.
I also thought that Diane was too old for the part, though she really put herself into it. In the beginning I thought she was the grandmother and her drug-selling friend was her daughter. It was a distraction. But she did direct or produce it, which is why she played the role. another producer would not have chosen her for this role.
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Diane ruled in this part, and she looked fabulous, just as she always does.
The mother in this film was to play a part of a very stressed person, that had a very hard life
Every rinkle you have on your face IS EARNED!
I appreciate that Diane shows off how hard she has worked in her life, and is not some botox loving maniac. Diane always looks fabulous!
You people are idiots Diane Keaton is perhaps one of the finest actresses ever to appear in film and how dare anyone say the only reason shes in it is because she produced hello dumbasses usually the producer is chosen after the film is cast and sometimes producers are changed cause they dont have enough money and to do with her age i could care less if shes 100 she can act and i think shes beautiful for a woman her age and personally ive liked some of her recent movies more then her older ones i loved the Family Stone, Surrender Dorothy, and Somethings Gotta Give....also i find it so repulsive that actors can be in movies basically till death and people love them just as much but actresses are always judge by there wrinkles well hello my favorite actresses are Diane Keaton, Susan Sarandon, Bette Midler, Sally Field, Meryl Streep, Shirley Maclaine, Lily Tomlin, Cher, Jane Fonda, Kathy Bates, Hellen Hunt, Julia Roberts, Meg Ryan & Goldie Hawn, and correct me if im wrong byt all of them are 50 atleast or close to it and there all far superior actresses to Jennifer Aniston and Sarah Jessica Parker who's only reason there doing movies is because of all the fame there TV Shows gave them personally though i loved the TV Show friends but almost all of her movies have sucked of have been good but her acting sucked in them..... PS im just very angry at the assumption of an actresses age being any reason for being cast in a movie unless its about a teenager or something this movie didnt specify an age did it?
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What great comments!! I have not seen this movie yet, but it is coming on in a few minutes. I can't wait to see it. From all the comments, I am guessing that Diane "looks her age". I am with you; well, so what??? Has anyone seen what drugs do to people, especially women? My husband's sister is a druggie and she looks many years older than him even though she is younger. So, I imagine the producer did quite a bit of research about female drug addicts and found out that bit of information.
You are so right about your choices of actresses, though I am not a big fan of a few of them. Nonetheless, they are far better than Jennifer Aniston and Sarah Jessica Parker. Parker is repulsive; she isn't that great of an actress and she wears way too much make-up. You said what I've know all along; she thrives on attention; that is the only reason she is an actress. It sure isn't to entertain anyone. She is just an insecure woman who needs attention; what better way than to be an actress? What Matthew Broderick sees in her I will never understand. He could do so much better.
What gets me about Hollywood is how they will cast a beautiful, young actress woman with an old, overweight actor who is about 30 years older than the actress; Jack Nicholson opposite Helen Hunt, for example. Seldom, if ever will we see Cher or Goldie Hawn cast in a love story with Brad Pitt, though if either have any taste, they would turn it down. He can't hold a candle to the likes of Sean Connery, Harrison Ford, Patrick Stewart, Bruce Wilis, Paul Michael Glaser, and Mark Harmon.
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I agree
This movie isn't my favourite, but Diane always always always tries her very best in anything.
That is so true! Diane Keaton as Patsy McCartle is due to the role she plays supposed to be someone who is not a beauty queen. I mean she is a widowed mother of two boys with no money and no resources who has to turn to selling meth to get by. In this she becomes her biggest customer. How can she possibly look good? It's only normal that she looks like Hell and looks old.
shareNope. I thought she was perfect and never thought about her age once while watching this movie.
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Keaton was excellent and really threw herself into the part. She deserved an Emmy. Personally, I didn't think she looked too old. She's a beautiful woman and a terrific actress. To my mind no one else could have tackled the role as well. Perfect casting.
shareI don't think she looks too old either, not at all. Besides, people watched Friends and when the show ended the characters were supposed to be around 30, when in reality some of them were 40!
I thought Diane Keaton was awsome in this. As she is in every movie she's ever been in!
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I love this movie, and Diane was great in it. I never thought of her age either
I was just floored how believeable she was in it.
she really put her all into it..why do people always think of peoples age so much? its NOT like she was 75!
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Diane Keaton is a great actress.
Although I haven't seen this movie, part of it was filmed at my brother's house.
While I didn't get to meet her, I did get her autograph on my Annie Hall DVD.
Just had to brag.
Thank you.
D.
Of course it matters. The story has to be believable and the actors have to be age appropriate. Diane Keaton is a talented actress but she is too old for this part. At least that's my opinion.
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I didn't even think of her age until I came on here and saw all the age posts. I still don't think she was too old (or at least too old looking) for the part. She looks fortyish in this movie, imo, which is passable enough to have children those ages. It's really common for older actors to play much younger people. I see them doing that in movies and tv shows all over the place.
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She's brilliant in this movie and that is ALL that I saw. She looks way younger than she is "supposed" to be. And oh...she's one of our finest actresses ever!
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She was too old. I wonder if she was picked out, the movie was delayed a lot then they didn't re cast. It looks like the movie was supposed to be early 80s so the kids would be my age.
shareI started this thread not to question Keaton's acting ability though it seems that's the direction people have taken it. I questioned her age according to her on screen child/ren because I was thinking about genetics etc. A good majority of women aren't able to give birth let alone carry a child at what looks like 50 yeas old. Maybe she had a surrogate, who knows? Maybe she got extra hormonal treatments so that her body could carry the child to term. But all those options require money and maybe that's where her character's financial troubles began.
If only people could differentiate the actor from the character. After all, I did post this under the "film" message board and not the "actor" message board. This is not an attack on the actor.
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And that's where I was going with it too.
I wonder if either the real woman imagined Keaton playing her or Keaton was cast like in the late 80s or 90s and then the movie was shelved for a while.... It looks from the cars and just the general feel of the movie that this was taking place early 80s (when I would have been a little younger than the little guy). Assuming I'm right, the actual boys from the movie would now in 2015 be in their mid to late 40s, possibly early 50s for the hs kid. The station wagon and other cars looked early 80s. Back in those days, single moms struggled and were pariahs of society, even if their husband died or left them, it was thought of as their fault and I grew up with a single white mom in a neighborhood of other kids with single white moms or together parents that were broke. Not in our house like that but in our neighborhood there were drugs/drug dealers like that. A lot the kids had parents that were addicts. My moms sister's kids (my cousins) they were mostly addicts or at least used something. Anyway if the real incident was in the 80s then maybe Keaton was cast when she was younger. I think she did an excellent job and it even suspended the reality that she was clearly too old to have been cast for that part when the movie was made.
If this place had a point system like on Reddit, I would upvote your posts and given you gold.
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Aw thanks
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