![]() Those movies were "romantic comedies for smart women, about smart women" - female characters with the rare combination of "bite and vulnerability." The women may have been "a tad too hyper-analytical or neurotic but they were always highly verbal" and deserved their happy endings.Įphron wrote films that appealed to women, arguing that male filmmakers had little interest in portraying women except as "'girlfriends or wives,'" says John Horn and Rebecca Keegan at the Los Angeles Times. "The very mention of her name calls to mind a certain kind of movie, something you can't say about many filmmakers, regardless of gender," says Christy Lemire of the Associated Press. Her hit films "reinvented the banter-rich romantic comedies of the '30s and '40s for the modern era." She's also responsible for what may be "one of the most quoted lines of film dialogue ever": After Meg Ryan's Sally fakes an orgasm in a crowded New York deli, a nearby customer, overhearing the ecstatic shrieks, informs the waitress, "I'll have what she's having." ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "Ephron's witty way with words paved her career path," first as a journalist and then as a renowned screenwriter, says Susan Wloszczyna at USA Today. ![]()
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