This Is My Life (1992)

Directors

Nora Ephron

Cast

Julie Kavner, Samantha Mathis, Gaby Hoffmann, Carrie Fisher

The story

Dottie Ingels is a single mother in Queens who works on a Macy's cosmetics counter but aspires to be a stand-up comedian. She and her two daughters—bookish teenager Erica and pre-teen Opal—have lived with Dottie's aunt Harriet ever since Dottie's ex-husband, Norm, walked out on them several years earlier. Dottie dreams of stardom but keeps bumping up against the reality of living paycheck to paycheck, and the only way she can practice her material is while selling cosmetics.

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