Heartburn (1986)
If you rent Heartburn without knowing anything about it, you’ll probably think it’s a two-hour whine-fest about a bad marriage and a woman struggling to have it all. If you look it up, you’ll find out that that’s exactly what the movie is supposed to be about. Heartburn is an unabashed, unapologetically biased account of screenwriter Nora Ephron’s marriage to Carl Bernstein. If that subject doesn’t interest you, or you didn’t know about it, you might be drawn in by the cast: Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep.
While Jack has a reputation of being a ladies’ man, he woos Meryl out of her common sense and gets her to marry him. She gives up her career and tries to keep up in her new surroundings: Washington politics. It’s a very tough life, as anyone who’s had any experience in it knows, so it’s no wonder that she feels her plate is full without adding in marital difficulties.
I love both Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep, but this isn’t my favorite of either of their movies. Since they’re both such legends and have so many other indelible roles that have marked their careers, you won’t find it difficult to say, “I liked her better in The Iron Lady,” or “He’s more likable in As Good As It Gets.” Neither one gives lousy performances—that’s not really possible, is it?—and there’s nothing particularly wrong with the story, but it’s just not as fantastic as the other movies they’ve made through the decades.
More Meryl Streep movies here!
While Jack has a reputation of being a ladies’ man, he woos Meryl out of her common sense and gets her to marry him. She gives up her career and tries to keep up in her new surroundings: Washington politics. It’s a very tough life, as anyone who’s had any experience in it knows, so it’s no wonder that she feels her plate is full without adding in marital difficulties.
I love both Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep, but this isn’t my favorite of either of their movies. Since they’re both such legends and have so many other indelible roles that have marked their careers, you won’t find it difficult to say, “I liked her better in The Iron Lady,” or “He’s more likable in As Good As It Gets.” Neither one gives lousy performances—that’s not really possible, is it?—and there’s nothing particularly wrong with the story, but it’s just not as fantastic as the other movies they’ve made through the decades.
More Meryl Streep movies here!