The read
Audiences rate it 25 points higher than critics do.
Synopsis
Single mom Dottie Ingels sells cosmetics in a department store while dreaming of becoming a comedian. After she inherits some money, she decides to move to New York with her children Erica and Opal in order to begin a stand-up career in small bars. Dottie soon rises to stardom, but while she travels all over the USA, her daughters stay home lonely.
Ratings
IMDb6.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes36%
Audiences rate it 25 points higher than critics do.
21 audience votes
Key crew
- Nora EphronDirector
- Nora EphronWriter
- Delia EphronWriter
- Carly SimonOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Julie KavnerDottie Ingels
- Samantha MathisErica Ingels
- Gaby HoffmannOpal Ingels
- Carrie FisherClaudia Curtis
- Dan AykroydArnold Moss
- Bob NelsonEd
- Marita GeraghtyMia Jablon
- Welker WhiteLynn
- Caroline AaronMartha Ingels
- Kathy NajimyAngela
- Danny ZornJordan Strang
- Renée LippinArlene
Stills
Themes
stand-up comedysingle motherwoman directormoving to a citymother daughter relationshipsisters