This Is My Life (1992) on Netflix
Dottie Ingels sells cosmetics at a Macy's counter and dreams of stand-up comedy while raising daughters Erica and Opal in Queens. Inheriting a house lets her move the family to Manhattan.
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- IMDb6.1/101,537 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes38%
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Plot summary
Divorced and sharing a house in Queens with her aunt Harriet, Dottie Ingels works at a Macy's cosmetics counter and dreams of stand-up comedy. Her two daughters are Erica and Opal; their father, Norm, walked out years earlier and is not part of their lives. Dottie practices her material on customers, and when Harriet dies she inherits the house. She sells it and rents an apartment in Manhattan, betting everything on comedy. Dressing in polka dots to stand out, she works small clubs and makes friends among the local comics. Through the assistant Claudia Curtis she lands a meeting with the agent Arnold Moss, who sends her to a Los Angeles showcase, leaving Erica and Opal with her New York friends.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about This Is My Life (1992)
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- When Nora Ephron asked producer Jon Peters whether he had read her script, he allegedly replied that he had made over 60 movies and did not have to read a script to know whether it worked. The film was put into turnaround at Columbia Pictures in 1990.
- The talent agent Arnold Moss, played by Dan Aykroyd, is based on the famous New York agent Sam Cohn, right down to eccentricities such as a habit of eating paper.
