IT’S COMPLICATED (2009)

2025-03-07

SMALL TALK & BIG KITCHENS, our mini-series on the romcoms of Nora Ephron and Nancy Meyers, continues with the story of a divorcée looking for love in the wrong place. With the financial success of The Holiday, Nancy Meyers basically had a blank check to get anything greenlit she wanted, so for her next film she looked at her own life and her relationship with Charles Shyer as inspiration for a what if scenario in which a divorced woman has a steamy affair with her ex husband. Join Nick and Scott a...

SMALL TALK & BIG KITCHENS, our mini-series on the romcoms of Nora Ephron and Nancy Meyers, continues with the story of a divorcée looking for love in the wrong place.

With the financial success of The Holiday, Nancy Meyers basically had a blank check to get anything greenlit she wanted, so for her next film she looked at her own life and her relationship with Charles Shyer as inspiration for a what if scenario in which a divorced woman has a steamy affair with her ex husband.

Join Nick and Scott as they pretty wildly different experiences with a film that doesn’t demand much from it’s audience (despite its title) with 2009’s IT’S COMPLICATED.

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