As well as the movies’ best fake-orgasm scene,Nora Ephron’s sharp script brought emotional literacy to relationship comediesThose of us getting alert to watch Carrie Fisher reprise her most famous role as Princess-turned-General Leia will also relish this chance to see her in another great film. It’s the 1989 gem, written by Nora Ephron and directed by Rob Reiner; Ephron re-invented the metropolitan romantic comedy, and taking it from writers like Woody Allen and Neil Simon and melding it with the more contemporary concept of the “relationship” comedy,something with more emotional literacy. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com