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Partners
Yup, the last half hour.
Playboy bachelor Harry Sanborn (Jack Nicholson) heads off for a dirty weekend with new squeeze Marin Barry (Amanda Peet) only for their private party at the family retreat to be crashed by Marin's mother, Erica (Diane Keaton). The stress proves too much for Harry, suffering a mild heart attack and advised to rest up in the Barry beach house under the watchful eye of Erica. The usual hijinks occur as the two initially hate each other, notice positive aspects in the other's character, fall in love, change for the better and all the usual clich?d tosh in a romantic comedy that makes few deviations from type. It's more successful in the comedy department than the romance, Nicholson's impeccable delivery balancing some strangely lifeless scenes that would still be enough to earn this an unreserved thumbs up if it'd didn't drag a deadweight half hour along at the tail end purely for a grotesquely cheesy happy ending. As it stands it outstays it's welcome and undoes some of the good favour it had built up, but there's still enough laughs present to be enjoyable for at least the majority of its runtime.
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