The 8 Actors Diane Keaton Has Hooked Up With Onscreen This Decade
I have not yet seen Morning Glory, but based entirely on the smoldering sexagenarian chemistry between Diane Keaton and Harrison Ford in the trailer, I am willing to bet half of my tailored white pantsuit collection that their warring talk show hosts engage in some form of spontaneous hate sex during the film. In anticipation of this -- and in celebration of Diane Keaton's ability to bag dudes onscreen when most actresses her age are cast as grandmothers and corpses -- here is a list of all eight men the neurotically endearing (and sometimes just neurotically annoying) actress has romanced onscreen in the last decade.
Warren Beatty (Town and Country)
In this dead-on-arrival Peter Chelsom comedy, Diane Keaton's Ellie realizes that her high-powered architect husband is having an affair with a knockout cellist (Nastassja Kinski), Ellie's best friend (Goldie Hawn) and a kooky heiress (Andie MacDowell) after decades of loving monogamy.
Jack Nicholson (Something's Gotta Give)
This 2003 Nancy Meyers rom-com cast Diane Keaton opposite Nicholson as Harry Sanborn, a comically bare-assed (when necessary) music industry executive with an affection for younger women, cigars and saying the wrong thing at the wrong time, until a health scare forced him into the arms of Diane Keaton's frazzled playwright.
Keanu Reeves (Something's Gotta Give)
Keanu Reeves has never been more believable as a well-read doctor who romances neurotic cougars than in this film, where the baritone dreamboat even gave Keaton's character a second shot -- and a ring! -- after he had been stood up.
Craig T. Nelson (The Family Stone)
In Keaton's first collaboration with Rachel McAdams, she played the loving (yet protective) matriarch to Craig T. Nelson's loving (yet stoic) patriarch in this screwball Christmas comedy.
Stephen Collins (Because I Said So)
After going to extreme lengths to set up her love-lost daughter (Mandy Moore), Keaton's overbearing mother ended up falling for the father (Collins) of the musician (Gabriel Macht) whom she ultimately did not want said daughter to date.
Jeff Daniels (Mama's Boy)
Again, Keaton played an overbearing mother who only lets go of her 29-year-old son (Jon Heder) after falling in love with an eerily perfect self-help guru (Daniels) in this unfunny comedy.
Ken Howard (Smother)
In a plot described as "an assembly line explosion at the Bad Idea Factory" by filmcritic.com, Diane Keaton embodied another -- say it with me -- overbearing, neurotic mother who moves in with her son (Dax Shepard) and his wife (Liv Tyler) after her husband (Howard) allegedly cheated on her.
Ted Danson (Mad Money)
Keaton's atrociously named character Bridget Cardigan is motivated to rob a bank after her husband Don is laid off of his cushy corporate gig and reveals that the couple is nearly $300,000 in debt.





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