Heartburn

Rachel and Mark meet at a friends wedding and the sparks fly almost immediately, a love at first sight kind of thingy. 

                                     

Just seeing Meryl Streep and Jack Nicolson there makes you expect some electrifying and fun stuff, but...well there's a 'But'. Don't know if the 'but' is the plot, the story, or the characters, but somewhere along it seems to fall into a rut...their life...and the movie.

She is a New York Food critic, and he is a Washington columnist who uses his friends and social life as stories for his column. The conflict, atleast internally starts at the word go. 

Even at the Church, Rachel all ready in bridal attire, has all her reservations about marriage surface and there's so much self doubt, the amount of convincing she needs is nuts. Then they're married.

They pick up this really old decrepit house that needs lots of renovation, and when Rachel says 'you'll need your imagination to see the beauty of it, there's a remark by a friend which says, 'sure, but it looks like work that's going to go beyond your lifetime'. That I guess symbolizes the whole story.

They start great, so in love, but then life takes over..... they evolve differently, their focuses shift, and the knowing they are in love, all the effort, all the want......doesn't help hold them together. You can see that, they each in their own way want to, but can't.