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.
Acting
Streep and Nicholson's volcanic chemistry—hate and desire indistinguishable.
Writing
Ephron's autobiographical script drips with lived-in specificity.
Direction
Nichols lets silences scream louder than arguments.
Director
Mike Nichols
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ephron wrote the screenplay from her own marriage to and divorce from Carl Bernstein, literally airing their dirty laundry—including his affair while she was pregnant.
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