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"OPENS FRIDAY 12/25\r\nIn this funny but flabby comedy, a Santa Barbara, California, divorcee (Meryl Streep, who earned Golden Globe nods for this as well as Julie &amp;amp; Julia) meets an eligible architect (Steve Martin) just when her lecherous former hubby (Alec Baldwin) returns to her life. Streep&amp;apos;s and Baldwin&amp;apos;s characters bounce back into bed, but she&amp;apos;s then filled with remorse about becoming the &amp;quot;other woman,&amp;quot; as her ex now has a bitch-on-heels of a younger wife (Lake Bell). The two actors make a fun pair and feel believable as former mates working through unfinished business (and seeing Baldwin&amp;apos;s hairy, husky torso is funny and revolting at the same time). But this Sex and the City for an older generation, written and directed by Nancy Meyers (Something&amp;apos;s Gotta Give), gets off to a slow start and then suffers from pacing that&amp;apos;s as uneven as the script. Though Martin&amp;apos;s sweet in a scene in which he and Streep&amp;apos;s upscale bakery owner make chocolate croissants, he mostly seems uncomfortable in this role. And while Streep is good as always, she&amp;apos;s simply playing it for laughs. Nothing too complicated here.\r\n-- THELMA ADAMS"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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