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Only When I Laugh is a 1981 American comedy-drama film based on Neil Simon's 1970 play The Gingerbread Lady. The story is about an alcoholic Broadway actress who reenters society after a long stay in a rehab clinic.
Sep 25, 1981 · Only When I Laugh: Directed by Glenn Jordan. With Marsha Mason, Ed Moore, Joan Hackett, James Coco. A Broadway actress fresh out of rehab navigates sobriety, her career, demanding daughter, and supporting her troubled friends' personal crises.
- (1.7K)
- Comedy, Drama
- Glenn Jordan
- 1981-09-25
Neil Simon's magic touch shimmers at its very best in this story about a Broadway actress, Georgia Hines (Marsha Mason), who six years earlier gave up custod...
Actress Georgia (Marsha Mason) gets out of treatment for alcohol addiction, only to be greeted by a host of interpersonal problems. Her two best friends are dragging her down with their self ...
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- Glenn Jordan
- R
- Marsha Mason
Neil Simon's “Only When I Laugh” is basically a movie about a woman who is recovering from alcoholism, although the film also provides us with a lonely homosexual, a disturbed teenager, a fortyish woman losing her husband, and a “Looking for Mr. Goodbar” scene in which protagonist Marsha Mason is assaulted and raped.
A boozy Broadway actress comes out of a 12-week cure to face the problems of her best friends as well as her needy daughter. She tries to balance the terrors of returning to work with the demands of all around her with humor and insight, while staying off the booze.
- 120 min
Only When I Laugh - (Original Trailer) An alcoholic actress (Marsha Mason) fights to come back while trying to raise her teen daughter (Kristy McNichol) in Neil Simon's Only When I Laugh (1981).
