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.
Meryl Streep
as Rachel
Jack Nicholson
as Mark
Jeff Daniels
as Richard
Maureen Stapleton
as Vera
Stockard Channing
as Julie
Richard Masur
as Arthur
Catherine O'Hara
as Betty
Steven Hill
as Rachel's Father
Miloš Forman
as Dimitri
Mamie Gummer
as Annie
Karen Akers
as Thelma Rice
Aida Linares
as Juanita
