Only When I Laugh (1981) on Netflix
Georgia Hines, a Broadway actress, comes home to Manhattan after three months in rehab for alcohol abuse. Her teenage daughter Polly, who has lived with her father, asks to move in.
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- Rotten Tomatoes63%
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Plot summary
Georgia Hines is a divorced Broadway actress who leaves a clinic after three months of treatment for alcohol abuse and returns to her New York apartment. She says she can keep her sobriety and ease back into stage work. Her two best friends are Jimmy Perrino, an actor who cannot find steady work, and Toby Landau, a wealthy socialite who worries about her fading youth. Polly, Georgia's seventeen-year-old daughter, has stayed with her father and his new wife Felicia; she asks to spend her senior year of high school with Georgia, and Georgia agrees. Writer David Lowe, Georgia's former boyfriend, telephones and asks to meet; he brings a new script drawn from the time they spent together and wants her for the leading part.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Only When I Laugh (1981)
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- James Coco became the first performer in history to be nominated for both an Academy Award and a Golden Raspberry Award for the same performance, his Supporting Actor role in Only When I Laugh. Amy Irving and Glenn Close have since matched the feat, for Yentl and Hillbilly Elegy.
