This Is My Life (1992)

User Rating:

5.6/10   

Director:

Nora Ephron

Writers (WGA):

Meg Wolitzer (book)
Nora Ephron (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

21 February 1992 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Tagline:

It's 10pm. Do you know where your mother is?

Plot:

A stand-up comic (Julie Kavner) neglects her two daughters in the midst of her newfound fame.

Plot Keywords:

Mother Daughter Relationship | Las Vegas | Tour | Single Mother | Stand Up Comedy

Awards:

3 nominations

Cast

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 (as Kathy Ann Najimy)
Danny Zorn	...	Jordan Strang
Renée Lippin	...	Arlene
Joy Behar	...	Ruby
Estelle Harris	...	Aunt Harriet
Sidney Armus	...	Morris Chesler

Runtime:

USA:105 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

USA:R (original rating) | Iceland:L | Australia:M | USA:PG-13 (edited for re-rating) | Singapore:PG

Filming Locations:

Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

Company:

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Movie Connections:

References It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

Soundtrack:

The Show Must Go On

The polka dots keep getting bigger and bigger!

This movie has a funny script by Nora and Delia Ephron, (You've Got Mail). Linda Obst (One Fine Day, Hope Floats) is the producer. The music is by Carly Simmon, which is great. Here we have all the ingredients for a good chick movie! Perhaps the lack of box office success it had was because of timing. It was released before Nora and Delia, and Obst were really known in the industry. If it was released today, it would get all the attention. It a really good movie.

Dottie Ingels, Julie Kavner (Forget Paris, Jake's Women) is a single parent. She has two daughters, Erica Ingels, Samantha Mathis (Little Women, The American President) and Opal Ingels, Gaby Hoffmann (Sleepless in Seattle). They live with their Aunt Martha Ingels, Caroline Aaron (Deconstructing Harry ) until Martha dies and leaves them the house which they sell. Dottie can now pursue her dream of becoming a stand up comedian. Aunt Martha had died while she was shopping, she literally shopped until she dropped. No one could figure out which outfit was really hers and as the body went out of the store the alarm went off because the outfit still had the price tag on. Erica plays the critical teenager growing up with a somewhat realistic but by the same token negative view on things. Opal is the little one always trying to cheer things up. The kids are absolutely adorable. Their dialogue makes me laugh! They keep saying: did too, did not, did too, did not? Dottie wears those off-beat outfits, all polka dots. They are small at the beginning of the movie and their get bigger as she gets more famous. Favorite quotes:" Don't chew you hair, sweetheart". Life lesson: Everyone in the world is two phone calls from everyone else in the world you just need to know who the phone calls are." "Sometimes the audience was so dead that they were wearing toe tags." "Dad said that we were going to fidgety like mom...Opal says. Later Erica says it is not fidgety like mom. It is frigid. Opal: do you think that mom is cold in bed"? I recommend this fun movie. It is a feel good movie. I enjoyed watching it.