Nancy Meyers

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q235555: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as director, the making department they hold the most credits in. The films the hosts said they directed, which the two lists below run through too: Private Benjamin (1980); Father of the Bride (1991); The Parent Trap (1998); Something's Gotta Give (2003); The Holiday (2006); It's Complicated (2009); The Intern (2015); (rom-com filmmakers); Meyers filmography; What Women Want. Count them as writer (12 films), craft (1 film) instead.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Father of the Bride (1950): 1 line

lineage (remake) · through Father of the Bride (1991), which they directed: Father of the Bride ⇒ Father of the Bride (the host's read). The 1991 film remakes the Spencer Tracy and Elizabeth Taylor original, and the duo argue the remake anxiety has faded with time.
“there is obviously the original with Spencer Tracy and Elizabeth Taylor, but fine.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 0:02:04 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

Meet the Parents (2000): 1 line

programming (programming) · through Something's Gotta Give (2003), which they directed: Meet the Parents ⇒ Something's Gotta Give (the host's read). Nicholson may have seen Meet the Parents and wanted a piece of that audience.
“Do you think he saw meet the parents and was like, I can do that too?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 0:05:06 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

Parenthood (1989): 1 line

verdict (best-Martin-movie rival) · through Father of the Bride (1991), which they directed: Parenthood ⇒ Father of the Bride (the host's read). Some would pick Parenthood as his best because it tried this type of movie first and spun off into a TV show.
“Some people might say parenthood actually, because it's the 1st type of movie that tried to do the stuff they did.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 1:19:51 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

Father of the Bride Part 3 (Netflix Zoom reunion): 1 line

lineage (pandemic sequel) · through Father of the Bride (1991), which they directed: Father of the Bride ⇒ Father of the Bride Part 3 (Netflix Zoom reunion) (the host's read). The virtual Netflix reunion is called a low point of the pandemic.
“The virtual Netflix sequel. I think was one of the low points of the pandemic.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 0:47:27 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)

Father of the Bride Part II (1995): 1 line

lineage (sequel) · through Father of the Bride (1991), which they directed: Father of the Bride ⇒ Father of the Bride Part II (the host's read). Dobbins is okay with Part II because it comments on weddings and pregnancy smartly and she likes the family; it made $76.6M on a $30M budget.
“I'm okay with Father of the Bride too.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 0:46:18 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90 sure it was them)

Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994): 1 line

lineage (genre influence) · through Father of the Bride (1991), which they directed: Father of the Bride ⇒ Four Weddings and a Funeral (the host's read). Father of the Bride starts the 90s wedding-movie explosion that includes Four Weddings, Wedding Planner and Wedding Singer.
“This like really starts the 90s explosion of everything from 4 weddings and a funeral to wedding planner and wedding singer and you name it.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 1:03:26 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Craft (1) everyone in craft

builds the houses and sets, the movie's look ("this is her vision"), Father of the Bride (The Rewatchables, ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins)

What was said about them, by kind

career (3)

career (career path): Nancy Meyers → Something's Gotta Give. After the divorce she developed a corner of films about women of a certain age thriving in later life.
“the corner that she eventually develops is like woman of a certain age, just real, like figuring out how to thrive in later life”
The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 0:22:18 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them)
career (career): Nancy Meyers → Charles Shyer. With this film she separates herself from the Shyer filmography and goes deeper.
“this is Nancy, like, separating herself from the Shire filmography and being like, I'm gonna go deeper.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:34:25 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Nancy Meyers → Hans Zimmer. The speakers treat Zimmer's sweeping orchestral score as a fixture of Meyers's films.
“Hans Zimmer again. Nancy's reliable sweeping score.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:43:39 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)

contrast (1)

contrast (contrast): Nancy Meyers → You've Got Mail. Meyers was starting then and would have paired everyone off at the end; Ephron did not.
“Nancy Myers is starting, you know, around the same time as this movie's coming out and she's like, yeah, baby, everyone's going to be together at the end.”
Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 1:08:26 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)

craft (9)

craft (craft): Nancy Meyers → Father of the Bride. Nancy Meyers is the goat of picking houses; Father of the Bride is the best to live in of all her houses.
“she was the goat of picking house.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ With Bill Simmons, Mallory Rubin, and Amanda Dobbins · 1:00:25 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Nancy Meyers → Nora Ephron. Juliet judges Nancy Meyers better as a writer than as a director, grouping her with Nora Ephron as writers with a specific female lens.
“Nancy Myers is like better as a writer than as a director”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:04:54 · Juliet Litman (0.75 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Something's Gotta Give → Nancy Meyers. The film's structure is Meyers's own and unlike her Meyers-Shyer collaborations.
“this is Nancy Meyers storytelling style and is distinctly different than the Meyers shire collaborations.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 0:24:35 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
craft (craft): The Holiday → Nancy Meyers. Meyers uses a lot of CGI backgrounds; The Holiday reportedly had heavy CGI work.
“I heard from reliable sources that the holiday costs $100 million and 20 plus CGI.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:04:45 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Nancy Meyers → David Fincher. Her perfectionism is compared to Fincher and Kubrick.
“it's in it, like, to a David Fincher Kubrick degree.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:05:15 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Nancy Meyers → Stanley Kubrick. Same comparison: perfectionist takes.
“it's in it, like, to a David Fincher Kubrick degree.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:05:15 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Nancy Meyers → National Treasure. Griffin ties Jon Voight's soufflé line about National Treasure to Meyers: light, airy films that collapse if one element is wrong.
“I feel like Nancy is like a souffle filmmaker”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:33:22 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Something's Gotta Give → Nancy Meyers. A speaker says Meyers's signature score sound, including the delicate Spanish guitar, begins with this film.
“This is where her like, you know, her like delicate like Spanish guitar comes in for the 1st time.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:43:47 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Nancy Meyers → Hans Zimmer. A joke that Meyers hands Zimmer the name of a spa-waiting-room track and tells him to replicate it for 90 minutes.
“She goes to the receptionist and goes, can you give me the name of the track, sends it to Hans Zimmer and says, replicate this for 90 minutes.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:44:01 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)

industry (1)

industry (industry): Nora Ephron → Nancy Meyers. Four rom-com filmmakers covered on Blank Check; two of the men got Oscar nominations, the women did not.
“they're Cameron Crowe, James L. Brooks, Nora Efron, and Nancy Myers, and 2 of those 4 guys got best picture nominations of best director nominations.”
Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 1:37:41 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)

people (2)

people (people): Diane Keaton → Nancy Meyers. Keaton is Meyers's stand-in on screen.
“Diane Keaton is like her perfect representation on screen.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 0:06:07 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
people (people): The Intern → Nancy Meyers. Anne Hathaway plays young Nancy in The Intern.
“Hathaway's like the adventures of young Nancy.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:18:56 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

programming (2)

programming (programming): Nancy Meyers → Alfred Hitchcock. Director-filmography episodes (Hitchcock, every Meyers movie) dictate what the hosts have to watch.
“we talked about every single Nancy Myers movie”
The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:18:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Robert Zemeckis → Nancy Meyers. Eclectic careers (Zemeckis) tend to help in March Madness, while Meyers is more consistent.
“I think people vote for a weird eclectic career to a certain degree”
Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:19:04 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)

theme (2)

theme (theme): Aaron Sorkin → Nancy Meyers. Neurotic, driven characters reflect their writer, as with Nancy Meyers.
“the same way when we talked about Nancy Myers.”
The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 0:11:50 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Danny DeVito → Nancy Meyers. DeVito is said to have Nancy Meyers energy with voters.
“Danny DeVito has Nancy Myers energy.”
Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:25:54 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

unmapped (marriage and directing team): Nancy Meyers → Charles Shyer. Husband and wife team who did Baby Boom and both Father of the Bride films, then divorced and she went on to direct Parent Trap and others.
“they were like a husband and wife directing team, and they did Baby Boom, they did Father-Bride, Father-Bride part 2, and then they flip, and she directs Parent trap.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 0:22:00 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)

what-if (2)

what-if (what-if): Gone Girl → Nancy Meyers. Meyers directing Gone Girl could nail Amy but might soft-pedal her viciousness.
“the Nancy Myers movie I want to see is Gone Girl”
The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 1:12:33 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Panic Room → Nancy Meyers. Panic Room is a drama of domesticity, a house that turns on you, suited to Meyers.
“a house and a room that turns against you, she would be engaging with a lot of the core themes”
The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 1:13:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

fun, about Nancy Meyers: A joking aside that Nancy Meyers recommends L.L.Bean sheets, spoken in mock-ad voice.
“Sheets that Nancy Myers recommends from LLB.”
The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:46:20 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Nancy Meyers: Meyers wrote the film for Nicholson and Keaton.
“She wrote it for the 2 of them.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 0:05:43 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Nancy Meyers: Pictures of Meyers look like Keaton in this film, down to the turtlenecks.
“when you look at pictures of Nancy Meyers, she looks like Diane Keaton in this movie down to the turtlenecks”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 0:06:12 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Nancy Meyers: In a press cycle she was annoyed by questions about her houses and said she keeps a Pinterest board.
“I keep a Pinterest board.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:44:39 · Bobby Finger (0.55 sure it was them)
fun, about Nancy Meyers: Meyers on why she cares about costume details.
“which sweater a character wears can say as much if you choose it correctly as any other element of a film?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:45:12 · Bobby Finger (0.55 sure it was them)