Something's Gotta Give isn't a particularly daring comedy, but it does subvert some of the conventions that Hollywood has espoused in recent years, such as the predilection of young women for older men. Here, Meyers begins by giving us a movie that fits the typical Hollywood format: Jack Nicholson plays a horndog who habitually confines himself to young women, and the movie complies by giving him a beautiful young girlfriend (Amanda Peet). Their attempt at a tryst is foiled when her mother (Diane Keaton) and aunt (Frances McDorman) show up at the family's summerhouse in the Hamptons.