Rachel is a food writer at a New York magazine who meets Washington columnist Mark at a wedding and ends up falling in love with him despite her reservations about marriage. They buy a house, have a daughter, and Rachel thinks they are living happily ever after until she discovers that Mark is having an affair while she is waddling around with a second pregnancy.

• Paramount Pictures
• Meryl Streep
• Jack Nicholson
• Jeff Daniels
• Maureen Stapleton
• Stockard Channing
• Richard Masur
• Catherine O'Hara
• Steven Hill