Single mother Adele August is bad with money, and even worse when it comes to making decisions. Her straight-laced daughter, Ann, is a successful high school student with Ivy League aspirations. When Adele decides to pack up and move the two of them from the Midwest to Beverly Hills, Calif., to pursue her dreams of Hollywood success, Ann grows frustrated with her mother's irresponsible and impulsive ways.
11-12-1999
1h 54m
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Main Cast
Movie Details
Production Info
Director:
Wayne Wang
Writers:
Mona Simpson, Alvin Sargent
Production:
Fox 2000 Pictures, 20th Century Fox
Revenue:
$18,653,615
Budget:
$23,000,000
Key Crew
Director of Photography:
Roger Deakins
Casting:
Victoria Thomas
Special Effects Coordinator:
R. Bruce Steinheimer
Music Editor:
Ellen Segal
Second Assistant Director:
Jonathan McGarry
Locations and Languages
Country:
US
Filming:
US
Languages:
en
Main Cast
Susan Sarandon
Susan Abigail Sarandon (née Tomalin; born October 4, 1946) is an American actor. She is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award, in addition to nominations for a Daytime Emmy Award, six Primetime Emmy Awards, and nine Golden Globe Awards. In 2002, she was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Natalie Portman (born Neta-Lee Hershlag, June 9, 1981) is an actress with dual American and Israeli citizenship. Her first role was in the 1994 action thriller Léon: The Professional, opposite Jean Reno. She was later cast as Padmé Amidala in the Star Wars prequel trilogy (released in 1999, 2002 and 2005).
Born in Jerusalem to an Israeli father and American mother, Portman grew up in the eastern United States from the age of three. She studied dancing and acting in New York, and starred in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace while still at high school on Long Island. In 1999, Portman enrolled at Harvard University to study psychology, alongside her work as an actress; she completed a bachelor's degree in 2003. During her studies she starred in a second Star Wars film and opened in New York City's The Public Theater production of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull in 2001.
Portman won a Golden Globe and was nominated for an Academy Award for starring in the 2004 drama Closer, appeared in Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith the following year, and won a Constellation Award for Best Female Performance and the Saturn Award for Best Actress for her starring role in the political thriller V for Vendetta (2006). She played leading roles in the historical dramas Goya's Ghosts (2006) and The Other Boleyn Girl (2008), and also appeared in Thor (2011) and its 2013 sequel. In 2010, Portman starred in the psychological thriller film Black Swan. Her performance received widespread critical acclaim and she earned her first Academy Award for Best Actress, her second Golden Globe Award, the SAG Award, the BAFTA Award and the BFCA Award in 2011. In 2016, she portrayed First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy in the biographical drama Jackie. She was nominated for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award and won the BFCA for Best Actress. In May 2008, Portman served as the youngest member of the 61st Annual Cannes Film Festival jury. The same year she directed a segment of the collective film New York, I Love You. Her first feature film as a director, A Tale of Love and Darkness, was released in 2015.
Hart Matthew Bochner (born October 3, 1956) is a Canadian film actor, screenwriter, director, and producer.
Bochner was born in Toronto, Ontario, the son of Ruth (née Roher), a concert pianist, and actor Lloyd Bochner.
Bochner appeared in such films as Islands in the Stream (1977), Breaking Away (1979), Terror Train (1980), Rich and Famous (1981), Supergirl (1984) and Die Hard (1988). He portrayed a cold-blooded killer in Apartment Zero (1988) and also starred in Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000). Among the films he has directed are PCU and High School High. He also starred in a key role as Byron Henry in the 1988 ABC miniseries War and Remembrance.
He is a board member of the Environmental Media Awards.
He starred as Zach, boyfriend of Molly Kagan (Debra Messing), on USA Network's The Starter Wife.
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Eileen Ryan (born Eileen Annucci, October 16, 1927 – October 9, 2022) was an American actress. She was the widow of actor and director Leo Penn, and the mother of actors Sean Penn, Chris Penn and singer Michael Penn.
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John Diehl (born May 1, 1950) is an American character actor with over 150 credits to his name in film and television. He is best known for his roles as Charles Kawalsky in the 1994 film Stargate, Det. Larry Zito on the 1980s cop show Miami Vice, Assistant Chief Ben Gilroy on The Shield, and as "the Cruiser" in Stripes. His other notable roles include Pvt. Bucklin, the spokesman of the 2nd Maine mutineers in Gettysburg, Cooper in Jurassic Park III (2001), as G. Gordon Liddy in the Oliver Stone movie Nixon, the Klansman informant ("Mickey Mouse") in A Time to Kill, and as Keith, a credit card company supervisor in Mo Money. He also appeared as the spirit of Harley Earl in a series of commercials for Buick. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and graduated from St. Xavier High School in 1968. For a time, he flirted with a professional boxing career, leaving Miami Vice to pursue it.
Shawn Wayne Hatosy (born December 29, 1975) a versatile American actor with over 40 film and television credits to his name. Hatosy gained recognition for his roles in projects like "Animal Kingdom," where he played the intense and troubled character Andrew 'Pope' Cody, showcasing his ability to delve into emotionally layered roles with authenticity and depth.
Bonnie Bedelia (born Bonnie Bedelia Culkin; March 25, 1948) is an American actress. After beginning her career in theatre in the 1960s, Bedelia starred in the CBS daytime soap opera Love of Life and made her film debut in The Gypsy Moths. Bedelia subsequently appeared in the films They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, Lovers and Other Strangers, Heart Like a Wheel, The Prince of Pennsylvania, Die Hard, Presumed Innocent, and Needful Things.
For her television work, Bedelia has earned two Emmy Awards nominations. From 2001 to 2004, Bedelia played the lead role in the Lifetime television drama series The Division. She later starred as family matriarch Camille Braverman in the NBC drama series Parenthood (2010–2015).
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Faran Haroon Tahir (Urdu: فاران ہارون طاہر) is an American actor.
Tahir made his film debut as Nathoo in Disney's 1994 film The Jungle Book. He went on to star in a variety of roles, such as Raza in Iron Man (2008), Captain Robau in Star Trek (2009), and President Patel in Elysium (2013). In 2016, he played the title role of Othello in a production by the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C.
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Elisabeth Singleton Moss (born July 24, 1982) is an American actor and producer. She is known for her work in several television dramas, earning such accolades as two Primetime Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards, which led Vulture to name her the "Queen of Peak TV".
Moss began acting in the early 1990s and first gained recognition for playing Zoey Bartlet, the youngest daughter of President Josiah Bartlet, in the NBC political drama series The West Wing (1999–2006). Wider recognition came for playing Peggy Olson, a secretary-turned-copywriter, in the AMC period drama series Mad Men (2007–2015). She won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film for playing a detective in the BBC miniseries Top of the Lake (2013), and she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series and Outstanding Drama Series for producing and starring in the Hulu dystopian drama series The Handmaid's Tale (2017–present).
In film, Moss has appeared in Girl, Interrupted (1999), Virgin (2003), Get Him to the Greek (2010), The One I Love (2014), Listen Up Philip (2014), Queen of Earth (2015), The Square (2017), The Seagull (2018), Her Smell (2018), Us (2019), and The Invisible Man (2020). Her theatre work includes Broadway productions of David Mamet's Speed the Plow and Wendy Wasserstein's The Heidi Chronicles. For the latter, she received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. She has also appeared in the West End production of Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour.
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John Carroll Lynch (born August 1, 1963) is an American actor, known for his role as Drew Carey's cross-dressing brother on The Drew Carey Show, and for his role as Norm, the unassuming husband of Margie Gunderson (Frances McDormand) in Fargo.
In the fall of 2003, he starred in the CBS show The Brotherhood of Poland, New Hampshire, with Randy Quaid, Chris Penn, Mare Winningham, Elizabeth McGovern, and Ann Cusack. The show was cancelled after only a few episodes. He also had a recurring role in the HBO show Carnivàle, playing escaped convict Varlyn Stroud. Lynch appeared as a district attorney in the CBS series Close to Home and as NASA official Bob Gilruth in the HBO mini-series From the Earth to the Moon. Lynch appeared in the 2003 thriller Gothika and the 2007 biopic Zodiac.
Caroline Aaron (born August 7, 1952) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as acid-tongued talk show host Mary Pat Lee on Wings.
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Paul Guilfoyle is an American stage and screen actor, best known for playing Captain Jim Brass on the television series "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation". He graduated from Yale University in 1977 with a major in economics and studied at the Actor's Studio in New York City.
He is often mistakenly referred to as the son of character actor Paul Guilfoyle but they are not related.
Thora Birch (born March 11, 1982) is an American actress. She was a child actor in the 1990s, starring in movies such as All I Want for Christmas (1991), Patriot Games (1992), Hocus Pocus (1993), Now and Then (1995), and Alaska (1996). She came to prominence in 1999 after earning worldwide attention and praise for her performance in American Beauty. She then starred in the well received film Ghost World (2001), which earned her a Golden Globe nomination.
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Mary Ellen Trainor was an actress well-known for roles in a variety of 80s movies including Romancing the Stone, The Goonies, Lethal Weapon (and its sequels), The Monster Squad, Action Jackson, Die Hard, Scrooged, Ghostbusters II, and Back to the Future 2, among other things. One of her most iconic roles was that of the greedy wife in the famous killer Santa episode of Tales From the Crypt "And All Through the House".
Ashley Suzanne Johnson (born August 9, 1983) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Chrissy Seaver on ABC's sitcom Growing Pains and its' subsequent TV movies, Patterson on NBC's FBI drama Blindspot, Mary Beth Caldwell in The Help, Amber Ahmed on AMC's The Killing, and Alex Marshall (daughter of Mel Gibson's character) in What Women Want. She also starred on the live stream show Critical and its' spinoffs.
She's also known for her voice roles in animated television series including Gwen Tennyson on Ben 10: Alien Force and its' spinoffs, Gretchen Grundler on Recess and all its' spinoffs, Terra on Teen Titans, and Peter Shepherd on Jumanji (animated series).
Corbin Allred (born May 25, 1979) is an American actor, most notably as starring in the 2003 award-winning motion picture Saints and Soldiers, and the 1997–1998 television series Teen Angel.
He was also in Josh Kirby... Time Warrior!, Quest of the Delta Knights and known for his role in Robin Hood: Men in Tights. He has also appeared on an episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and in an episode of NCIS. He also appeared in in the 1999 films Diamonds alongside Dan Aykroyd and Kirk Douglas and Anywhere but Here with Natalie Portman and Susan Sarandon.
He is the second of four children. Allred's acting career began when he was 12 years old after attending an open casting call in his home town. His hobbies include rock climbing, mountain biking and fly fishing. He teaches climbing classes. Allred is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and served a two year mission to Australia for his church. He was born in Salt Lake City, Utah and currently resides in Cedar City, Utah, where he is a pre-med student at Southern Utah University.
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Eva Amurri (born March 15, 1985) is an American actress.
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Stephanie Lynne Niznik (May 20, 1967 - June 23, 2019) was an American film, television, and theatre actress most famous for her role as Nina Feeney on Everwood.
Besides Everwood, Niznik's television roles include guest roles on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, Profiler, Sliders, JAG, Frasier, Epoch, Star Trek: Enterprise, Traveler, and Diagnosis: Murder, in addition to being a series regular on the mid-1990s action drama Vanishing Son and the 2007 drama Life Is Wild. She has also appeared in the films Star Trek: Insurrection and Exit to Eden. She received her Masters of Fine Arts from Duke University.
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Heather McComb (born March 2, 1977) is an American actress.
McComb started acting at age 2 in a commercial for Publisher's Clearing House. When she appeared in the telefilm "Generation X" in 1996, she became the first actress to portray the X-Men character of Jubilee on screen. She joined the cast of Party of Five in 1998, playing the part of Maggie.
McComb married actor James Van Der Beek on July 5, 2003. They are followers of the New Age version of Kabbalah and regular attendees of the Kabbalah Centre. On June 10, 2009, it was confirmed that the couple had split.
Michael was born and raised in St. Petersburg, Florida. He spent most of his youth studying jazz music and attended North Texas State University on a scholarship. He played lead trumpet with Stan Kenton's 1979 Tour and appeared with Woody Herman and his Thundering Heard. After a car accident left him unable to play, Michael re-directed his creativity into acting. On the small screen, Michael starred in the series Something So Right, landed the leads in two television movies The Princess And The Marine and A Loss Of Innocence and recurred on 3rd Rock From The Sun as the high school gym coach. He has also made a number of guest starring appearances in series including That 70's Show, X-Files, Arli$$, The Drew Carey Show, Home Improvement, Seinfeld, Murphy Brown, Two Guys And A Girl, and 7th Heaven, where he played the father of a child with Tourette's Syndrome. An avid golfer, Michael is most recognizable for his role as Boone in Tin Cup with Kevin Costner. Additional big screen credits include Pearl Harbor, Collateral Damage, Anywhere But Here, Crimson Tide, Executive Decision, Phenomenon, Dreamweaver as James Spader's lawyer, and as Chicago White Sox third baseman Buck Weaver in Field Of Dreams. When not working, Michael spends every free minute golfing. Set on achieving one of his goals, playing on a PGA Senior tour. IMDb Mini Biography By: Christy Lawson
Robert Selden Duvall was born on January 5, 1931, in San Diego, California. He grew up in a military family, with his father, William Howard Duvall, being a career military officer who later became an admiral. His mother, Mildred Virginia (Hart), was an amateur actress, which perhaps influenced his early interest in acting.
Duvall attended Principia College in Illinois, where he majored in drama. After graduating in 1953, he served a two-year stint in the U.S. Army. Following his military service, he moved to New York City and studied acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre under the renowned teacher Sanford Meisner. During this time, he shared an apartment with fellow aspiring actors Dustin Hoffman and Gene Hackman.
Duvall's career began on stage and television in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He made his film debut in 1962, playing the reclusive Boo Radley in "To Kill a Mockingbird." This role marked the beginning of a prolific film career. Over the decades, Duvall has appeared in numerous iconic films, including "The Godfather" (1972) and its sequel, "Apocalypse Now" (1979), "The Great Santini" (1979), and "Tender Mercies" (1983), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor.
Throughout his career, Duvall has been recognized with numerous awards, including four Golden Globe Awards, a BAFTA Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. He has also directed and produced several films, showcasing his versatility in the industry.
In addition to his film work, Duvall has had a significant presence on television, earning acclaim for his roles in miniseries such as "Lonesome Dove" (1989) and "Broken Trail" (2006).
Duvall's contributions to the arts have been widely recognized, and he continues to be celebrated as one of the most talented and respected actors of his generation.
James H. Harrington III, professionally known as Jay Harrington, is an American actor. He is known for his role as the title character in the ABC sitcom Better Off Ted and as Deacon Kay in the CBS crime action series S.W.A.T.
Rick Hurst was born on January 1, 1946 in Houston, Texas, USA as Richard Douglas Hurst. He is an actor, known for Steel Magnolias (1989), The Dukes of Hazzard (1979) and In the Line of Fire (1993). He was previously married to Katherine Shelley Weir and Candace Kaniecki.
Megan Mullally (born November 12, 1958) is an American actress and singer. After working in the theatre in Chicago, Mullally moved to Los Angeles in 1985 and began to appear in supporting roles in film and television productions. She made her Broadway debut in Grease in 1994 and she has since appeared in several Broadway musicals. From 1998 until 2006, she played Karen Walker on the TV sitcom Will & Grace, most arguably her best known role to date. From 2006 until early 2007, Mullally hosted the talk show The Megan Mullally Show.
She has since appeared in guest-starring roles in television programs such as Parks and Recreation, 30 Rock, Boston Legal and a Glaad Award-winning episode of The New Adventures of Old Christine. In 2010, Mullally starred as Lydia in the critically acclaimed second season of Party Down. She's currently starring as Chief on Adult Swim's cult hit Childrens Hospital.
She received seven consecutive Emmy Award nominations for "Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series" for her role on Will & Grace, winning twice in 2000 and 2006. She has also received four Screen Actors Guild Awards for her performance, and was nominated for four Golden Globe awards.
2000, Mullally met actor Nick Offerman while doing a play together in Los Angeles. The two married in 2003. Offerman guest-starred on Will & Grace during its fourth season; in return, Mullally has guest-starred on Parks and Recreation, on which Offerman plays a lead role. Mullally plays Tammy, the conniving ex-wife of Offerman's character Ron Swanson, appearing in eight episodes.
