Heartburn (1986)
Directed by Mike Nichols
She's a magazine writer who gives up her career for love and family. He's a playboy newspaper columnist who can't quite give up his old tricks. And if that combination doesn't give a relationship heartburn, nothing will.
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What critics compared Heartburn to
…from The Shining to Heartburn, audiences will be familiar with the ultimate horror that anyone can endure, that of finding themselves married to a writer.
When Mike Nichols ("The Graduate" and "Heartburn") saw the original French film of Jean Poiret's popular play "La Cage aux Folles," he immediately wanted to direct an American version with a script by his former comedy partner, Elaine May.
If Harry is Reiner's alter ego, Sally is another Ephron heroine who gets "Heartburn," but how much more easily she finds the Maalox this time.
If that doesn't sound quite like the Ephron of old (certainly not the Ephron of "Heartburn," which had an undertaste so nasty you could be puckered for a month afterward), it's possibly because Reiner and Billy Crystal, longtime collaborators, reportedly added a good deal themselves during the film making.
The movie was written by Nora Ephron , and could be a prequel to her novel and screenplay " Heartburn ," which starred Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep in the story of a marriage and divorce.