įor their performances, the cast was awarded a National Board of Review of Motion Pictures Award for Best Ensemble Cast the same year. Worldwide, It's Complicated eventually grossed $219.1 million, and surpassed The Holiday (2006) to become Meyer's third-highest-grossing project to date. It played well through the holidays and into January 2010, ultimately closing on April 1 with $112.7 million. It became another commercial hit for Meyers, however, upon its Christmas Day 2009 opening release in the United States and Canada. ![]() The film was met with average reviews from critics, who praised the acting of its ensemble cast but declared its story rather predictable. The film also features supporting performances by Lake Bell, Hunter Parrish, Zoe Kazan, John Krasinski, Mary Kay Place, Robert Curtis Brown, and Rita Wilson, among others. It stars Meryl Streep as a bakery owner and single mother of three who starts a secret affair with her ex-husband, played by Alec Baldwin, ten years after their divorce – only to find herself drawn to another man: her architect, Adam (portrayed by Steve Martin). It's a child of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids with a Twilight Zone spirit, and it's a pleasant holiday diversion.It's Complicated is a 2009 American romantic comedy film written and directed by Nancy Meyers. Downsizing is rare, a comedy in sci-fi mode with a toolbox of social concerns. More than that misplaced motif is that he has nicely set up already the humanity that will save Paul, who must choose between survival and being together for however long with the ones he truly loves. ![]() Where Payne veers from the staples of his drama is bringing in an apocalyptic climate change, a danger not even appearing earlier. ![]() Once Paul witnesses real poverty he can never turn back to his truly shrunken life of excess and worthlessness. At least until Paul experiences caring for those less fortunate than he, for those shrunk but still with relatively nothing, viz., the poor, the immigrant, and the sick to name a few disadvantaged souls living in a ghetto-tenement world far from the eyes of the advantaged. Payne and co-writer Jim Taylor deftly move the Twilight-Zone story into a melodrama that stresses the humanity of a man who forsakes family and friends for a seemingly higher purpose such as saving the environment. ![]() Of course, in his decision to help out the planet, he is really helping to mitigate his envy of his richer friends in their McMansions. To shrink means to have a bigger miniature mansion, the kind he couldn't afford in a regular size that his shrinking paycheck keeps him from. Paul (Matt Damon), an occupational therapist who at best is just a nice guy, and his ambitious wife, Audrey (Kristen Wiig), decide to have a richer life by downsizing, but contrary to our conventional use of that term. The more challenging part is to understand how he can pack climate change and economic decay also into his themes. The easiest part to get of writer/director Alexander Payne's sci-fi comedy, Downsizing, is the allegory of shrinking ourselves and our possessions to miniature to save the planet from our excess yet become miniature plutocrats in the process.
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