Soon after the play opened on Broadway, co-producer Scott Rudin asked him to turn it into a film, which starred Meryl Streep as Sister Aloysius and Philip Seymour Hoffman as Father Flynn, and invited him to direct.
She directed (but didn't write) the much inferior "What Women Want, " and co-wrote (but didn't direct) "Baby Boom, " starring Ms. Keaton, as well as the remake of "Father of the Bride" and "Father of the Bride Part II, " in both of which Ms. Keaton played opposite Steve Martin.