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Mixed Nuts is a Misunderstood Christmas Sleeper

Nora Ephron flopped big time with a world-class cast with the 1994 Christmas dark comedy Mixed Nuts.

My World Of Flops, Nora Ephron MonthNathan RabinDecember 18, 2022Steve Martin, Adam Sandler, Rita Wilson, Juliette Lewis, Anthony LaPaglia, Nora Ephron, Christmas movie, Madeline Kahn, dark comedy, Liev Schreiber, Garry Shandling, Haley Joel Osment, Jon Stewart

Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildering Case File #196 Bewitched (2005)

Nora Ephron Month concludes with an affectionate look back at 2005’s Bewitched, a muddled, excessively convoluted meta take on the 1960s sitcom that god help me, I kinda liked.

My World Of Flops, Nora Ephron MonthNathan RabinNovember 29, 2021Nora Ephron, Will Ferrell, Nicole Kidman, Steve Carell, tv adaptation, post-modern, meta, Kristin Chenowith, Jason Schwartzman, Stephen Colbert, bro, romantic comedy

My World of Flops Crumby Case File #195: Cookie (1989)

Before she was a big time director Nora Ephron was the writer of scruffy comedies like 1989’s Cookie.

Nora Ephron Month, My World Of FlopsNathan RabinNovember 23, 2021Peter Falk, Emily Lloyd, Jerry Lewis, Dianne Weist, Nora Ephron, mob comedy, New York, Ricki Lake, Susan Seidelman

Nora Ephron Month: My Blue Heaven (1990)

Screenwriter Nora Ephron and director Herbert Ross’ goofy, giddy Goodfellas riff My Blue Heaven is a goddamn delight, is what it is.

Nora Ephron MonthNathan RabinNovember 9, 2021Steve Martin, Rick Moranis, Joan Cusack, Carol Kane, Herbert Ross, Nora Ephron, mob comedy, Goodfellas

First and Last 2.0 Nora Ephron: This Is My Life (1992) and Julie & Julia (2009)

Nora Ephron Month kicks off with a look at 1992’s This is My Life, her charming directorial debut and final film, 2010’s Julie & Julia, which is half great, half terrible.

Nora Ephron Month, First and Last 2.0Nathan RabinNovember 1, 2021Nora Ephron, Julie Kavner, Dan Aykroyd, Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, debut, Samantha Mathis, Gaby Hoffman

November will be Nora Ephron Month at the Happy Place!

2020: The Year YOU Control Nathan Rabin is FINALLY over! And just a year late!

The Big WhoopNathan RabinOctober 28, 2021Nora Ephron

My World of Flops, Stormy Weather Case File #179 The Travolta/Cage Project #62 Lucky Numbers (2000)

John Travolta and Nora Ephron flopped big time with Adam Resnick’s deliciously mean screenplay about the darkly comic machinations of some small-time, small town losers in 1980s Pennsylvania.