![]() ![]() Of all the films she wrote or directed, Heartburn is the most overtly personal. ![]() ![]() Bernstein famously cheated on Ephron while she was pregnant with their second child both the book and the film center on Rachel Samstat, a pregnant food writer who, like Ephron, discovers that her political journalist husband Mark is having an affair.Įphron died in 2012. The movie is based on Ephron’s deliciously acerbic roman a clef of the same name-a book that turns 40 this month-written in the aftermath of her divorce from her second husband, Watergate journalist Carl Bernstein. Heartburn, the darkly complex 1986 comedy about the implosion of a marriage, written by Ephron and directed by Mike Nichols, could reasonably be called the black sheep of the Ephron canon. ![]()
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