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Heartburn is a 1986 American comedy-drama film directed and produced by Mike Nichols, starring Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson. The screenplay, written by Nora Ephron , is based on her novel of the same name , a semi-biographical account of her marriage to Carl Bernstein .
Jul 25, 1986 · Heartburn: Directed by Mike Nichols. With Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson, Jeff Daniels, Maureen Stapleton. She's a magazine writer who gives up her career for love and family. He's a playboy newspaper columnist who can't quite give up his old tricks.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Mike Nichols
- 1986-07-25
Mar 15, 2023 · Heartburn, the darkly complex 1986 comedy about the implosion of a marriage, written by Ephron and directed by Mike Nichols, could reasonably be called the black sheep of the...
- Cady Lang
Rachel Samstat (Meryl Streep), a New York food critic, beds Mark Forman (Jack Nicholson), a Washington, D.C., newspaper columnist. The two fall in love, and Rachel relinquishes her job and ...
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- Mike Nichols
- R
- Meryl Streep
This is a bitter, sour movie about two people who are only marginally interesting. The characters are Rachel, a New York writer, and Mark, a Washington political columnist. The originals for the characters are Ephron and Watergate journalist Carl Bernstein, whom she married and then divorced when she learned he was having affairs. Advertisement.
Heartburn. Summaries. She's a magazine writer who gives up her career for love and family. He's a playboy newspaper columnist who can't quite give up his old tricks. And if that combination doesn't give a relationship Heartburn, nothing will.
Overview. Rachel is a food writer at a New York magazine who meets Washington columnist Mark at a wedding and ends up falling in love with him despite her reservations about marriage.
