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This Is My Life

1992 · 95 min

A bittersweet, gently funny look at a mother's ambition and the daughters left watching from the couch, warm but quietly sad.

Directed by
Nora Ephron
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Tagline
It's 10pm. Do you know where your mother is?
Overview
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.

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Directed by
Nora Ephron
Genres
Comedy, Drama
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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • lightstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • family
  • parenthood
  • ambition
  • coming-of-age
  • identity
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour5
Realism8
Romance3
Tension3
Darkness3
Complexity4
Emotional weight6

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Genres
comedy, drama
Directed by
Nora Ephron
Written by
Delia Ephron, Nora Ephron
Starring
Julie Kavner, Samantha Mathis, Gaby Hoffmann, Carrie Fisher, Dan Aykroyd, Bob Nelson, Marita Geraghty, Welker White
Music
Carly Simon
Cinematography
Bobby Byrne
Runtime
95 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
English

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