Why Making Movies is Still Tough For Million-Dollar Filmmaker Nancy Meyers2 min read

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Although filmmaker Nancy Meyers appears to be on familiar ground with her latest feature, “The Intern,” the popular writer and director of romantic comedies starring a wide cast of well-known Hollywood stars has put a twist on her own formula. Despite her notoriety for making romances, Meyers has long been interested in the intersection of the personal and the professional in her feel-good films. She did, after all, write “Baby Boom,” a forward-thinking comedy about how one woman (Diane Keaton, of course) juggles sudden motherhood with her career ambitions. “The Intern” combines both those elements in a new way.

Anne Hathaway stars in the film as Jules Ostin, the founder of a successful internet clothes retailer who’s mostly unable to juggle her personal commitments (husband, daughter, friends, down time) with her strong drive to make her company great. Enter “senior intern” Ben Whittaker, played by an uncharacteristically warm and fuzzy Robert De Niro. Like Jules, Ben is defined by his work, and he joins her company as an intern because he’s been pretty lonely – and feeling pretty useless – since his retirement and the death of his wife. The two take a while to bond, but when they do, it makes for one of Meyers’ most satisfying on-screen relationships yet.

Meyers has never been one to churn out a film a year, but the break between “The Intern” – which cycled through plenty of casting changes, including an early version set to star Tina Fey and Michael Caine – and her previous film, 2009’s “It’s Complicated,” has been a long one. Once Hollywood’s most successful female filmmaker (thanks to the big box office earn of “What Women Want”), Meyers remains a bankable director whose films bring both the star power and audience dollars. But, as it turns out, making movies can be tough, even for Nancy Meyers.

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