Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin star in Nancy Meyers' mature rom-com. What makes this rather mainstream film particularly interesting are several pot-smoking scenes involving Streep, Martin and Baldwin's characters.
Jane (Streep) and Jake (Baldwin) have been divorced for 10 years, but at a family reunion (they have three kids), their romance rekindles. Problem is, Jake remarried (Jane didn't), so now by seeing Jane she becomes his mistress. One night Jake offers Jane a joint. She declines, saying she hasn't smoked pot in 27 years, but keeps the doobie.
Enter Adam (Martin), a mild-mannered divorcee who's designing an addition to Jane's house. Adam asks Jane out. She's stoned as they drive to a party. "Do you by any chance poke smot?" Jane asks, tipping her hand. At the party, she gives Adam the joint and he sparks it up. They giggle as Jake walks over. "It's not a great time to be feeling groovy," Adam says nervously.
A few minutes later, Jake and Jane's future son-in-law Harley (the predictably funny John Krasinski) barge in on Jane and Adam while they're in the bathroom finishing off the joint. The stoniest moment of the film is Jake giving Harley a shotgun hit.
It's all payed for laughs, but pot serves a purpose in It's Complicated - to draw everyone closer together. Though Jake supplies the joint, it's Jane and Adam who benefit the most from it.
Quote: "You’d think that I was the biggest ’head! I am so not. Well, I have a dim memory of all that. [Laughs] I do find it amusing - I love playing drunk, I love all these things of loss of control." - Meryl Streep
