Word: ephron
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Baby-boomer parents were supposed to take their five-year-olds to the movies. In fact, they took their teenagers as well -- probably in separate cars -- to films that cut across generational chasms. "Someone called me yesterday," says Fugitive director Andrew Davis, "whose nine-year-old loved it." Nora Ephron, director of Sleepless in Seattle, surmises that her audience is "grownups -- over 18s, anyway -- and more females than males. But when you get up to where we are, everybody is going to see it." Wolfgang Petersen, whose In the Line of Fire is in the same box-office stratosphere...
...film's characters are simply more memorable--and seem more real--than those in movies which are supposed to be about real life (such as the overrated Nora Ephron snoozer "Sleepless in Seattle"). For all the focus on head shapes, this celluloid presentation is special because it's got something very human: corpuscle-churning muscle, also known as "heart...
WRITERS: NORA EPHRON, DAVID S. WARD AND JEFF ARCH...
DIRECTOR: NORA EPHRON...
...drama of boy losing girl and the final satisfaction of boy getting girl cannot happen. The complications in this movie are all logistical. They are never confrontational, as they so giddily were in the classic comedies of muddled love, the spirit of which co-writer and director Nora Ephron has said she wanted to recapture...