Storyline

An autobiographical look at the break-up of Screenwriter Nora Ephron's marriage to Carl "All the President's Men" Bernstein that was also a best-selling novel. The Ephron character, Rachel Samstat (Meryl Streep), is a food writer at a New York City magazine who meets Washington, D.C. columnist Mark Forman (Jack Nicholson) at a wedding and ends up falling in love with him despite her reservations about marriage. They buy a house, have a daughter, and Rachel thinks they are living happily ever after until she discovers that Mark is having an affair while she is waddling around with a second pregnancy.—Lisa Todorovich

Plot Keywords

suspicion, husband wife relationship, pregnant wife, infidelity, philanderer, yuppie, divorce, extramarital affair, critic, yelling, picnic, motherhood, journalist, fatherhood, unfaithful husband, cheating, subway, armed robbery, computer, beauty salon

Short Review

What's profound about it is its intimacy. You feel as if you were there, and it happened to you, and its heroism, the heroism of everyday life, is yours.

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