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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.
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- 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...
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.
Stress levels skyrocket when Georgia's angst-ridden teenager, Polly (Kristy McNichol), needs a place to live, and her ex-husband (David Dukes) pressures her to star in a new...
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- Glenn Jordan
- R
- Marsha Mason
Only When I Laugh. 1981 · 2 hr 1 min. R. Drama · Comedy. Polly decides she's going to move in with her alcoholic mother, Georgia Hines, a Broadway actress who is trying to straighten out her life. Subtitles: English. Starring: Marsha Mason Kristy McNichol James Coco Kevin Bacon Joan Hackett. Directed by: Glenn Jordan.
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.
