Heartburn (film)
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| German title | heartburn |
| Original title | Heartburn |
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| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1986 |
| length | 108 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Mike Nichols |
| script | Nora Ephron |
| production | Robert Greenhut , Mike Nichols, Joel Tuber |
| music | Carly Simon |
| camera | Néstor Almendros |
| cut | Sam O'Steen |
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Heartburn is an American comedy film from 1986. Mike Nichols filmed the screenplay by Nora Ephron with Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson in the lead roles , which was based on her eponymous autobiographical novel and in which she processed her failed relationship with journalist Carl Bernstein , who wrote for the exposure of the Watergate affair is known.
The German title is a literal translation of the original title Heartburn , but the ambiguity is lost because in English the word "heart" refers to the subject of love.
action
New York columnist Rachel Samstat meets Mark Forman, a charismatic political journalist from Washington, at a wedding. After a short time they get married and move into a house in the US capital that has to be renovated.
When Rachel becomes pregnant and has a daughter, Annie, that can only barely cover up the problems of her everyday life. When word got around in the circle of friends that a TV journalist friend, Thelma, was having an affair, Rachel didn't realize for a long time that this affair was about Mark. It was only during her second pregnancy that she discovered the truth by chance.
Rachel leaves Washington and rushes to New York, where she spends most of the time waiting for a reaction from her husband and relating the acts of soap operas to her life. After being ambushed and forced by the mugger to give up her diamond-studded wedding ring, Mark comes to her in New York and asks her to forgive him. Rachel returns to him because he promises never to see his lover again.
But the relationship remains fragile. Again and again both humiliate each other. Rachel tells friends under the alleged seal of secrecy that Thelma, whose affair with Mark was not known, had confessed to her that she had an STD . In the end, the police gave her the wedding ring back. Since this is loose, she goes to the jeweler, where she learns that Mark has bought a necklace. This is how Rachel realizes that her husband continues to cheat on her. At a dinner with friends, she takes revenge by pressing a cream cake in his face.
After the birth of the second child, Rachel leaves Mark and Washington again, this time for good. The film ends when she boarded the plane to New York with her daughters.
Soundtrack
The song for the film was the hit Coming Around Again by Carly Simon , which was ranked 32nd in the Federal Republic of Germany and sixth in Austria for 12 weeks.
Awards
Meryl Streep was named Best Actress at the Semana Internacional de Cine de Valladolid .
Reviews
The film received very different ratings. Roger Ebert judged that Nora Ephron was too close to the story to make Mark a reasonably interesting character. Pat Graham found Meryl Streep miscast. The lexicon of international film stated that the sympathetic film remains on the surface, but it is also a "soulful and humorous, sometimes snappy-satirical portrayal of a relationship based on partnership, in which the gleefully rumored and high-spirited, sovereign cinema theater with two brilliant actors ”.
literature
- Nora Ephron : Heartburn. Novel (original title: Heartburn ). German by Ursula Gail . Droemer Knaur, Munich 1987, 235 pp., ISBN 3-426-01457-2
Individual evidence
- ↑ rogerebert.suntimes.com
- ↑ onfilm.chicagoreader.com
- ↑ heartburn. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 28, 2017 .
Web links
- Heartburn in the Internet Movie Database (English)