A middle-aged screenwriter pulls the ultimate Hollywood con: her nephew becomes her beard.
Quickly approaching her fiftieth birthday, talented and once-famous screenwriter Byrdie has lately had a hard time finding work in the movie biz. As she's aged, the industry hasn't, and the new regime isn't interested in what a maturing wordsmith has to say. In desperation, Byrdie dreams up a script-selling scheme, enlisting her attractive nephew Jason, a car salesman, to pitch her work as his own. The ruse is a wild success: All the key players eat up his charm, and her scripts soon become the hottest thing in town!
Acting
Kirstie Alley's bitter-candy performance as invisible woman
Writing
Meta-commentary on scripts by actual overlooked writers
Director
Graeme Clifford
Kirstie Alley
Byrdie Langdon
Eric Christian Olsen
Jason 'Krueger' Langdon
Stacy Grant
Andrea Davis
Britt Irvin
Stacy Herskowitz
Tobias Mehler
Richard Fleiss
Rob LaBelle
Steve Brooks
Jerry Wasserman
Marty Rosen
Malcolm Stewart
Peter Langdon
P. Lynn Johnson
Gloria Langdon
Nick Misura
Billy
Alex Kliner
Jimmy
David James Lewis
Lev Jordanson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kirstie Alley produced this herself after struggling to get age-appropriate roles post-Cheers — making the film its own meta-commentary.
Released the same year as Nancy Meyers' 'Something's Gotta Give,' this TV movie asks what happens when the Diane Keaton character doesn't have a beach house.
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