Mike Nichols directs Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson and Jeff Daniels in this drama where a magazine writer marries a cad journalist.

Exactly the type of movie that I would have watched on TV as a kid, not understood and therefore it didn’t gel into the long term memory banks. You see they used to make movies just for adults back then. And us nine year olds just sat through the infidelity and tiffs as the swearing had been dubbed out. The entertainment would have been seeing two great performances, a witty script and some wealth porn. The melodrama is a bit hard faced and it doesn’t help the overall mood of the piece that Jack steals every scene. The reality of the situation is of course he is fucking around. What else are you bringing to bed but a load of neuroses and a big sharer bowl of pasta. Jack had to get his. Fans of Ephron’s later, more magical, rom coms might find this a bit too intellectual and tough skinned. I’m actually not sure it is as smart as it thinks it is.

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