HEARTBURN Original Daybill Movie poster JACK NICHOLSON Meryl Streep Jeff Daniels

Heartburn (1986)

Directed by Mike Nichols.

With Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson, Jeff Daniels, Maureen Stapleton

An autobiographical look at the breakup of Ephron's marriage to Carl "All the President's Men" Bernstein that was also a best-selling novel. The Ephron character, 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. 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.