Michael (1996)
Nora Ephron's 1996 angel comedy with John Travolta. Gentle commercial work that uses spiritual material as premise instead of substantial engagement.
Writer: Nora Ephron
Nora Ephron was nominated for Best Original Screenplay three times, for Silkwood, When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless in Seattle, and her scripts are built on people talking around what they mean.
When Harry Met Sally is a decade-long argument about a proposition stated in the first scene, and the deli sequence exists because Ephron insisted the film needed a moment where the woman was demonstrably right.
She came from journalism and essay writing and never lost the essayist’s habit of using a small specific observation to carry a large one.
