Soapdish (1991)

Directors

Michael Hoffman

Cast

Sally Field, Kevin Kline, Robert Downey Jr., Cathy Moriarty, Elisabeth Shue, Whoopi Goldberg

The story

Celeste Talbert, the long-time star of the daytime soap opera The Sun Also Sets, is targeted by her ambitious co-star Montana Moorehead; Montana connives to replace Celeste as the star by promising sexual favors to producer David Seton Barnes. To make the audience hate Celeste's character, Montana and David come up with a plot in which she will accidentally kill a young, homeless deaf-mute, played by the newly cast Lori Craven. Despite the objections of head writer Rose Schwartz and Celeste herself, the scene plays out, but is interrupted by the latter's recognition of Lori as her real-life niece.

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