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Tonight's movie review is the romantic drama comedy Heartburn (1986), based on an autobiographical look at the break-up of screenwriter Nora Ephron's marriage to Carl Bernstein who wrote "All the President's Men." The film stars the queen herself Meryl Streep playing divorced New York City food writer Rachel Samstat who meets divorced playboy Washington D.C. newspaper columnist Mark Forman, played by the legend himself Jack Nicholson. The plot is simple, divorced woman meets a sort-of heartless playboy at a wedding, falls for him, relinquishes her career, relocates for him, marries him, has children with him and believes that are living happily ever after. Of course, that is until she figures out that he's been cheating on her. The film is a good insight around the ups and downs of a marriage including juggling personal careers, pregnancy and social events.
This isn't the best of films however the acting is what makes this film worth watching, just to see Streep and Nicholson together in a movie is good enough for me and you can tell how some of the scenes together seemed kind of improvised. The eating pizzas scene and singing of songs about babies then Nicholson jumps up and begins braying "My Boy Bill" feels natural and improvised. They're crazy good together. Nicholson plays the uber cool guy who always seems to be dancing between genius and insanity and Streep plays her role with authenticity during the different stages of her life including a career driven woman, a married woman to a woman with children. Her characterization of how she plays the character in different moments in the movie displays her range including the final 5 minutes of the movie.
The director, Mike Nichols, uses interesting imagery in the movie in particular the wedding of the two characters - have a look at the people who are sitting in their respective spots for the bride and groom and then look at how each character is sitting next to Streep's character Rachel, as they are trying to comfort her. Anyways, some parts of the film are sad however this is balanced out by a some of the humour. This isn't your typical romcom and isn't full of gags. The film is a reflection of the main song which is heard throughout the flick, the song by Carly Simon, 'Coming Around Again' and is compared to the childlike song Itsy Bitsy Spider. Both I guess is a story of how life has its ups and downs including loving someone and getting hurt by that someone but it all comes around. Bittersweet flick, good acting and watch out for a Kevin Spacey cameo, overall 7/10
Tonight's movie review is the romantic drama comedy Heartburn (1986), based on an autobiographical look at the break-up of screenwriter Nora Ephron's marriage to Carl Bernstein who wrote "All the President's Men." The film stars the queen herself Meryl Streep playing divorced New York City food writer Rachel Samstat who meets divorced playboy Washington D.C. newspaper columnist Mark Forman, played by the legend himself Jack Nicholson. The plot is simple, divorced woman meets a sort-of heartless playboy at a wedding, falls for him, relinquishes her career, relocates for him, marries him, has children with him and believes that are living happily ever after. Of course, that is until she figures out that he's been cheating on her. The film is a good insight around the ups and downs of a marriage including juggling personal careers, pregnancy and social events.
This isn't the best of films however the acting is what makes this film worth watching, just to see Streep and Nicholson together in a movie is good enough for me and you can tell how some of the scenes together seemed kind of improvised. The eating pizzas scene and singing of songs about babies then Nicholson jumps up and begins braying "My Boy Bill" feels natural and improvised. They're crazy good together. Nicholson plays the uber cool guy who always seems to be dancing between genius and insanity and Streep plays her role with authenticity during the different stages of her life including a career driven woman, a married woman to a woman with children. Her characterization of how she plays the character in different moments in the movie displays her range including the final 5 minutes of the movie.
The director, Mike Nichols, uses interesting imagery in the movie in particular the wedding of the two characters - have a look at the people who are sitting in their respective spots for the bride and groom and then look at how each character is sitting next to Streep's character Rachel, as they are trying to comfort her. Anyways, some parts of the film are sad however this is balanced out by a some of the humour. This isn't your typical romcom and isn't full of gags. The film is a reflection of the main song which is heard throughout the flick, the song by Carly Simon, 'Coming Around Again' and is compared to the childlike song Itsy Bitsy Spider. Both I guess is a story of how life has its ups and downs including loving someone and getting hurt by that someone but it all comes around. Bittersweet flick, good acting and watch out for a Kevin Spacey cameo, overall 7/10