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.
Acting
Julie Kavner's stand-up feels painfully lived-in.
Writing
Ephron scripts jokes that land and ache equally.
Costume
Dottie's chaotic stage lewks are peak early-90s.
Director
Nora Ephron
Julie Kavner
Dottie Ingels
Samantha Mathis
Erica Ingels
Gaby Hoffmann
Opal Ingels
Carrie Fisher
Claudia Curtis
Dan Aykroyd
Arnold Moss
Bob Nelson
Ed
Marita Geraghty
Mia Jablon
Welker White
Lynn
Caroline Aaron
Martha Ingels
Kathy Najimy
Angela
Danny Zorn
Jordan Strang
Renée Lippin
Arlene
Joy Behar
Ruby
Estelle Harris
Aunt Harriet
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Nora Ephron's directorial debut, made between Heartburn and Sleepless in Seattle. She fought hard to cast Julie Kavner over studio preferences.
One of the rare 90s films to seriously examine working motherhood without punishing ambition—no wonder audiences didn't know what to do with it.
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