I Ought to Be in Pictures

IMDb link: 0084109
IMDb rating: 6.1 (1,126 votes) Search
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Director: Walter Matthau, Herbert Ross
Cast: Ann-Margret, Dinah Manoff, Lance Guest and others

Release date: 26 Mar 1982
Release year: 1982
Runtime: 108 minutes
Country: United States
Keywords: literature on screen, american literature on screen, humoristic literature on screen, american humoristic literature on screen, 20th century literature on screen, claim in title, first person title, screenplay adapted by author, graveyard, hairstylist

Plot Storyline

Brooklynite Libby Tucker leaves her mother in Brooklyn to visit her screenwriter dad Herbert Tucker in L. A. She hasn't seen him for years and aspires to find a fast-paced life in movies. Along the way, Libby discovers who her dad is.

Grandmother has nothing to say when Libby tells her that she is off to LA to look up Dad, a Hollywood screenwriter. Grandmother has been in a New York cemetery for six years and Dad has been out of Libby's life for 16 of her 19 years. Libby arrives in LA on a Tuesday and phones Dad the one night that Stephanie, who does Jane Fonda's hair, stays over. Stephanie is there the next morning when Libby decides she needs to tell her story face-to-face.

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