Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson, Jeff Daniels, Maureen Stapleton, Stockard Channing, Richard Masur,  Catherine O'Hara, Steven Hill, Milos Forman

Based on a novel by Nora Ephron. A comedic drama about a food writer, her tumultuous relationship with another journalist, and all the dinner parties in between. In Nichols's fashion, the film is cold and distant despite its seemingly convivial scenes. Rachel (Streep) is the film's focus, and although she offers her own citrus smack (The Public Enemy), hitting Mike (Nicholson) with a Key Lime Pie, she, like the other characters, is minimally sympathetic. For all their eating, food, apparently, does not feed their souls.

(by Rebecca L. Epstein)