With the star power of Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep topping the billing for Heartburn you would think you would have a major league item in their careers. Still this one is strictly Double A and won't make a top 10 list for either of the mega stars.
Nora Ephron wrote the novel Heart Burn is based on and it's the story of her marriage and breakup with Carl Bernstein in real life. Streep is a food columnist and Nicholson a major Washington political columnist.
Ephron wasn't about to give you a favorable impression of the personal side of one of the two men who broke the real story behind the Watergate burglary. The idealist who broke the biggest scandal of the last century is nothing more than a lying cheating dog. I'm sure that if Bernstein wrote his side of the breakup it might turn out differently. For myself Nicholson could do very little with what he was given. He's about 10 yards short of Snidely Whiplash.
Streep does far better, but then the whole thing was written from the point of the wronged woman. Streep has that one down since she did Kramer vs. Kramer.
As the parents of Streep, Steven Hill and Maureen Stapleton get honorable mention. I'm in agreement with another reviewer who said that Ephron was too close to write a really good telling of the tale.
Nora Ephron wrote the novel Heart Burn is based on and it's the story of her marriage and breakup with Carl Bernstein in real life. Streep is a food columnist and Nicholson a major Washington political columnist.
Ephron wasn't about to give you a favorable impression of the personal side of one of the two men who broke the real story behind the Watergate burglary. The idealist who broke the biggest scandal of the last century is nothing more than a lying cheating dog. I'm sure that if Bernstein wrote his side of the breakup it might turn out differently. For myself Nicholson could do very little with what he was given. He's about 10 yards short of Snidely Whiplash.
Streep does far better, but then the whole thing was written from the point of the wronged woman. Streep has that one down since she did Kramer vs. Kramer.
As the parents of Streep, Steven Hill and Maureen Stapleton get honorable mention. I'm in agreement with another reviewer who said that Ephron was too close to write a really good telling of the tale.