Meg Ryan was the dominant romantic comedy performer of the late 1980s and 1990s, in When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle and You’ve Got Mail, and the deli scene is the most reproduced comic moment of the period.
Courage Under Fire and In the Cut show a different register, the latter deliberately against type and poorly received. Press coverage of her personal life around 2000 was hostile and the career declined sharply afterward. She has directed two films.
Greg KinnearNora Ephron had been one of the most accomplished American romantic comedy writers and directors of the late twentieth century. The play had been previously adapted as The Shop Around the Corner in 1940 starring James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan,…
Billy CrystalRob Reiner romcom with Nora Ephron screenplay. Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan across twelve years.
Bill PullmanNora Ephron's foundational early-1990s romantic comedy. An Affair to Remember homage.
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