I Ought to Be in Pictures

March. 26,1982      PG
Rating:
6.1
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

Walter Matthau as  Herbert Tucker
Ann-Margret as  Steffy Blondell
Dinah Manoff as  Libby Tucker
Lance Guest as  Gordon
Michael Dudikoff as  Boy on bus
Eugene Butler as  Marty
David Faustino as  Martin
Martin Ferrero as  Monte Del Rey
Allan Graf as  Baseball Fan

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