Heartburn
Sex. Love. Marriage. Some people don't know when to quit.
1986 | 108m | English
Popularity: 3 (history)
| Director: | Mike Nichols |
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| Writer: | Nora Ephron |
| Staring: |
| 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. | |
| Release Date: | Jul 25, 1986 |
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| Director: | Mike Nichols |
| Writer: | Nora Ephron |
| Genres: | Comedy, Drama, Romance |
| Keywords | journalist, husband wife relationship, infidelity, based on memoir or autobiography, semi autobiographical |
| Production Companies | Paramount Pictures |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $52,600,000
Budget: $15,000,000 |
| Updates |
Updated: Feb 01, 2025 Entered: Apr 13, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Meryl Streep | Rachel |
| Jack Nicholson | Mark |
| Jeff Daniels | Richard |
| Maureen Stapleton | Vera |
| Stockard Channing | Julie |
| Richard Masur | Arthur |
| Catherine O'Hara | Betty |
| Steven Hill | Rachel's Father |
| Miloš Forman | Dimitri |
| Mamie Gummer | Annie |
| Karen Akers | Thelma Rice |
| Aida Linares | Juanita |
| Anna Maria Horsford | Della |
| Ron McLarty | Detective O'Brien |
| Kenneth Welsh | Dr. Appel |
| Kevin Spacey | Subway Thief |
| Mercedes Ruehl | Eve |
| Joanna Gleason | Diana |
| R.S. Thomas | Dan |
| Jack Gilpin | Ellis |
| Christian Clemenson | Sidney |
| John Wood | British Moderator |
| Sidney Armus | Jeweler |
| Yakov Smirnoff | Contractor Laszlo |
| Caroline Aaron | Judith |
| Lela Ivey | Hairdresser |
| Tracey Jackson | Hairdresser's Friend |
| Libby Titus | Rachel's Sister |
| Angela Pietropinto | Hospital Receptionist |
| Cynthia O'Neal | Magazine Colleague |
| Susan Forristal | Magazine Colleague |
| Dana Ivey | Wedding Speaker |
| John Rothman | Jonathan Rice |
| Elijah Lindsay | Anesthetist |
| Jack Neam | Butcher |
| Kim Fertman | Arthur & Julie's Daughter |
| Salem Ludwig | Judge |
| Patricia Falkenhain | Dinner Party Hostess |
| Margaret Thomson | Irritated Wedding Guest |
| Charles Denny | Dinner Party Guest |
| Gregg Almquist | Dinner Party Guest |
| Garrison Lane | Dinner Party Guest |
| Ryan Hilliard | Dinner Party Guest |
| Dana Streep | Dinner Party Guest |
| Mary Streep | Dinner Party Guest |
| Cyrilla Dorn | Dinner Party Guest |
| May Pang | Dinner Party Guest |
| Michael Regan | Father of the Bride |
| Ari M. Roussimoff | Workman |
| Luther Rucker | Workman |
| Gary Jones | Waiter in Opening Sequence (uncredited) |
| Natasha Lyonne | Rachel's Niece (uncredited) |
| Jorge Pupo | Subway Rider (uncredited) |
| Grant Harper Reid | Man in Maternity Scene (uncredited) |
| Carlotta Schock | Dinner Guest (uncredited) |
| Tony Shalhoub | Airplane Passenger (uncredited) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Susan Bode Tyson | Set Decoration |
| Sam O'Steen | Editor |
| Joel Tuber | First Assistant Director |
| Chaim Kantor | Second Assistant Camera |
| Geraldine Peroni | Assistant Sound Editor |
| Timothy M. Bourne | Second Second Assistant Director |
| Bruce MacCallum | Assistant Camera |
| John Kasarda | Art Direction |
| Ezra Swerdlow | Production Manager |
| David Dreyfuss | Second Assistant Director |
| James Mazzola | Property Master |
| Mike Nichols | Director |
| Nora Ephron | Screenplay, Novel |
| Juliet Taylor | Casting |
| Ann Roth | Costume Design |
| Néstor Almendros | Director of Photography |
| Brian Hamill | Still Photographer |
| Tony Walton | Production Design |
| Carly Simon | Original Music Composer, Songs |
| Lee Halls | Makeup Artist |
| Romaine Greene | Hairstylist |
| J. Roy Helland | Hairstylist, Makeup Artist |
| John W. DeBlau | Gaffer |
| Dan Lerner | Camera Operator |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Joel Tuber | Producer |
| Robert Greenhut | Producer |
| Mike Nichols | Producer |
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| 2024 | 4 | 18 | 30 | 10 |
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| 2025 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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