Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Meryl StreepRachel
- Jack NicholsonMark
- Jeff DanielsRichard
- Maureen StapletonVera
- Stockard ChanningJulie
- Richard MasurArthur
- Catherine O'HaraBetty
- Steven HillRachel's Father
- Miloš FormanDimitri
- Mamie GummerAnnie
Recommandations
- 100
Washington Post
Heartburn is a masterpiece, a collaboration of mature artists at the peak of their craft, and something of a summing up for Mike Nichols, who, more successfully than any other American director, has staked out the terrain where men and women meet as his own. Here it is -- a movie that is seriously funny. - 50
Chicago Sun-Times
This is a bitter, sour movie about two people who are only marginally interesting. - 50
The New York Times
Unhappily, the movie begins to show signs of wear even before the marriage does. - 50
Chicago Tribune
Ephron delivered an incredibly flimsy script based on her novel about her former husband's repeated infidelity during their marriage and her pregnancies. Nicholson isn't given a character to play. He just lumbers onto the screen and cheats off-camera. - 50
Miami Herald
Heartburn doesn't have enough good inside semi-fiction to be of much interest to the Washington cognoscenti, and it's not enough of a movie to stay in the memory of the outside-the-beltway crowd more than an hour or two. What it is is a chance to see our two most celebrated actors at work for a while between films. [25 July 1986, p.D1] - 50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
The script, based by Ephron herself on her own tua culpa memoir of her marriage, is spread wide, but the film never goes deeper into its subject - estrangement and adultery - than a bent dipstick. Heartburn is gentrified Neil Simon. [25 July 1986, p.D1] - 50
The New Yorker
The film is rich in fillips--smart little taps and strokes. But after a while you start asking yourself, what is this movie about? (You're still asking when it's over.) - 40
Los Angeles Times
You can fret at Heartburn's flimsiness, may even find it insufferably smug in its portrait of our set, but you probably won't be bored by it. And it is peopled with adults, these days enough to make you whimper in gratitude. If only these talents were in the service of something.
