Product Description

Nora Ephron's novel, based on her stormy marriage to reporter Carl Bernstein, is brought to the screen by director Mike Nichols. Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson star as the ill-fated lovers, struggling with new responsibilities (home, family) and old problems (infidelity). Jeff Daniels, Stockard Channing, Catherine O'Hara, Milos Forman also star; look for Kevin Spacey (his film debut) as a subway hood. 109 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English. NOTE: This Title is Out Of Print; Limit One Per Customer.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #41834 in DVD
• Brand: Par
• Released on: 2004-07-06
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 1.77:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English
• Dimensions: 1.20 pounds
• Running time: 108 minutes

Amazon.com
You'd have thought that Nora Ephron and Mike Nichols had remade Heaven's Gate: that was the critical reaction to this film version of Ephron's semiautobiographical novel about her own marital woes. The fact that they had Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep playing thinly disguised versions of Carl Bernstein and Ephron probably made them bigger, fatter targets. In fact, the film was a genuinely funny and painful look at the effects of marital infidelity and divorce, in the story of two married writers and what happens when the pregnant wife finds out the husband has been fooling around behind her back. The film is more dramatic and less quip-filled than Ephron's novel, which made the Ephron character a food writer and was peppered with recipes. Nicholson stepped into his role at the last minute, when Nichols fired Mandy Patinkin for being too intense and not funny enough. --Marshall Fine