The Nancy Meyers Hall of Fame

The Big Picture

The Ringer

Tv & Film

4.2 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2020

⏱️ 114 minutes

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This week is the 40th anniversary of ‘Private Benjamin,’ Meyers’s first screenplay. Meyers would go on to write and direct a number of modern comedy classics, including ‘What Women Want,’ ‘Something’s Gotta Give,’ ‘It’s Complicated,’ and, yes, ‘The Holiday.’ Sean and Amanda dive deep into her filmography to build a Hall of Fame for one of the most successful and arguably underrated filmmakers of her time. Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Amanda Davins.
0:07.0	I'm Sean Fennesee.
0:08.7	And this is the big picture, a conversation show about one of our most influential filmmakers
0:13.7	and the woman who truly can have it all, Nancy Myers.
0:17.9	This week is the 40th anniversary of Private Benjamin.
0:21.0	Myers' first screenplay written with Charles Shire and Harvey Miller and Myers' only
0:25.4	Academy Award nomination.
0:27.2	It is quite an artifact.
0:28.2	We will be discussing it.
0:29.9	Myers would go on to co-write and eventually write and direct a number of modern comedy
0:33.6	classics, including What Women Want.
0:35.8	Something's got to give.
0:37.2	It's complicated.
0:38.4	And yes, the holiday.
0:40.4	Her work is filled with beautiful kitchens and neurotic career women seeking love, which
0:44.8	is why Nancy Myers is the first filmmaker featured in the month of Amanda, a festival that Sean
0:49.6	made up.
0:50.6	You can also watch Myers' most recent effort, Father the Bride Part III-ish, a Zoom sequel
0:55.8	released to benefit World Central Kitchen on Netflix's YouTube.
0:59.6	It's the full Nancy Myers experience on the big picture right after this.
1:03.6	You're doing that thing when you act like you know what's the thing to me, but think
1:08.2	about what I said.
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