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Heartburn

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Heartburn
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R,1hr 49min
Genres:
Comedy,Drama
Released:
July 25, 1986
Director:
Mike Nichols
Distributor:
Paramount Pictures
Starring:
Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson, Jeff Daniels  ...more
Synopsis: Though she always played coy about the fact in interviews, Nora Ephron's novel Heartburn is a thinly disguised "a clef" rehash of her marriage to Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein. Meryl Streep plays Rachel, an influential food critic who marries charismatic columnist Mark (Jack Nicholson) after a whirlwind courtship. Warned that Mark is constitutionally incapable of settling down with any one woman, Rachel gives up her own job to make certain that her marriage works. When Rachel announces ... Full Synopsis
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Donald Guarisco, AMG Review
This well-crafted but disappointing comedy-drama has talent to burn on both sides of the camera but is curiously uninvolving. The major reason for this lies in Nora Ephron's script, which never presents any believable reason for the two main characters to be interested in each other, much less married. This script also suffers from a diffuse, episodic structure that fritters away much of the story's ... Full Review
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