As well as being an acclaimed writer of novels and essays, the prolific and hilarious Ephron created a small array of film classics as a screenwriter and director.
Ephron was the writer and director of this adaption of Julie Powell's blog and book about cooking all the recipes in Julia Child's first cookbook.
Ephron directs Meryl Streep as Julia Child.
Ephron wrote and directed this comic tale of love and email between Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan (seen here on set).
She wrote and directed this John Travolta movie about an angel living on Earth.
Ephron wrote and directed this classic love story between Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.
For this comedy about a mobster in the Witness Protection Program, Ephron wrote the screenplay.
Rob Reiner's classic romantic comedy with Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan soars on the strength of Ephron's hilarious script.
Doing double (or triple?) duty on this Jack Nicholson-Meryl Streep film, Ephron wrote a screenplay based on her own novel which was based on her own marriage.
Ephron wrote the gripping, based-on-real life screenplay about a whistleblowing plutonium processing plant worker (played by Meryl Streep) who dies under mysterious circumstances.
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