Read More: Nora Ephron’s Son Pays Tribute in ‘Everything Is Copy’
Heartburn is the film that best embodies the maxim coined by her mother, the playwright Phoebe Ephron, which largely defined Ephron’s work: “Everything is copy.” The film is also the most cogent example of how this ethos, inescapably tied to Ephron’s legacy, was a double-edged sword when it came to her public perception. And of all the heroines she created, Rachel skews closest to who Ephron was in real life: intellectual but thorny, deploying her sharp wit as a defense against her deepest insecurities. Of all the films she wrote or directed, Heartburn is the most overtly personal. Bernstein famously cheated on Ephron while she was pregnant with their second child both the book and the film center on Rachel Samstat, a pregnant food writer who, like Ephron, discovers that her political journalist husband Mark is having an affair.Įphron died in 2012. The movie is based on Ephron’s deliciously acerbic roman a clef of the same name-a book that turns 40 this month-written in the aftermath of her divorce from her second husband, Watergate journalist Carl Bernstein. Heartburn, the darkly complex 1986 comedy about the implosion of a marriage, written by Ephron and directed by Mike Nichols, could reasonably be called the black sheep of the Ephron canon.
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