Heartburn

Heartburn

1986 · 108 min · EN · R · 6.0 (173 votes)
Dir. Mike Nichols · Starring Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson, Jeff Daniels, Maureen Stapleton, Stockard Channing, Richard Masur · Music Carly Simon

Sex. Love. Marriage. Some people don't know when to quit.

ComedyDramaRomance

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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A sharp, funny, and ultimately sad look at the unraveling of a marriage. It captures the mundane anxieties and sharp pains of domestic life with a relatable, lived-in feel.

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