This Is My Life
1992 · 1h 35m · 6.0
Comedy, Drama
Single mom Dottie Ingels sells cosmetics in a department store while dreaming of becoming a comedian. After she inherits some money, she decides to move to New York with her children Erica and Opal in order to begin a stand-up career in small bars. Dottie soon rises to stardom, but while she travels all over the USA, her daughters stay home lonely.
Julie Kavner, Samantha Mathis, Gaby Hoffmann, Carrie Fisher, Dan Aykroyd, Bob Nelson, Marita Geraghty, Welker White, Caroline Aaron, Kathy Najimy
stand-up comedy, single mother, woman director, moving to a city, mother daughter relationship, sisters