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Created Aug 02, 2014 10:29PM PST • Edited Jun 02, 2019 06:45PM PST

1. Quality

2. Summary

   Very Good 3.5

   And So It Goes goes very well as a date night destination, especially for those of us who have received AARP junk mail. It’s a RomCom for the ages, the golden ages, which start pretty early these days.

   Diane Keaton & Michael Douglas are perfectly cast in this classic Rob Reiner RomCom. It’s not Harry Met Sally quality, but plenty cute nonetheless. Add in an adorable granddaughter and it’s irresistible.

4. Acting

   Great 4.0

   Diane Keaton is a delight as the leading lady in yet another RomCom. Long since in the sensible underwear stage of her career, she’s charming as ever, even more so when she sings. It turns out Diane Keaton has got a great voice. Of course she does.

   Michael Douglas has the misfortune of playing a character whose first name is Oren. What were Reiner and screenwriter Mark Andrus thinking? Kirk’s son overcomes. It helps that he wears a panoply of great summer suits & jackets, a grumpy but well-dressed leading man being his late career stock in trade.

   Sterling Jerins – who looks to be all of 8 years old – charms beautifully as a little girl with no mother and a father off to prison. The girl can act. Can she hold it together being a child star? That’s the question.

   Everyone else pales in comparison.

   • Annie Parisse as a mom of three rambunctious boys
   • Yaya DaCosta as a hot mama living upstairs. Albert Jones as her husband.
   • Frances Sternhagen – the old pro – plays Douglas’s foul-mouthed boss.
   • Frankie Valli cameos as a Club Owner looking for a lounge singer. Think he knows the type?

5. Male Stars Great 4.0

6. Female Stars Really Great 4.5

7. Female Costars Very Good 3.5

8. Male Costars Good 3.0

10. Film

    Very Good 3.5

    Rob Reiner’s film has a strong sense of place: Bridgeport, Connecticut and its Black Rock neighborhood. Unfortunately, it’s choppy to start and only gets a meager comic rhythm halfway through.

11. Direction Very Good 3.5

12. Play OK 2.5

13. Music Great 4.0

14. Visuals Great 4.0
15. Content

16. Edge

    Risqué 1.7

    A harmless “dick” joke and the aftereffects of awkward sex limit the edginess to barely risqué, though the sight of a heroin addicted Mother is a true fright.

17. Sex Titillating 1.7

18. Violence Gentle 1.5

19. Rudeness Salty 2.0

21. Reality

    Glib 1.3

22. Circumstantial Glib 1.8

23. Biological Natural 1.0

24. Physical Natural 1.0