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Soapdish
1991
Jealousy and intrigue, on and off the set of a popular daytime soap opera. Celeste Talbert (Sally Field) is the neurotic diva of "The Sun Also Sets," but her popularity with the show's fans does not extend to her relationships with her envious co-stars. Sultry Montana Moorehead (Cathy Moriarty) has set her eyes on the soap's .. Read more
| Starring | Sally Field, Kevin Kline, Robert Downey Jr, Cathy Moriarty |
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| Director | Michael Hoffman, Pernille Fischer Christensen |
| Genres | Comedy |
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Soapdish
Jealousy and intrigue, on and off the set of a popular daytime soap opera. Celeste Talbert (Sally Field) is the neurotic diva of "The Sun Also Sets," but her popularity with the show's fans does not extend to her relationships with her envious co-stars. Sultry Montana Moorehead (Cathy Moriarty) has set her eyes on the soap's top spot, and she even offers to sleep with the show's nervous young producer if he'll have Celeste written off the program. In a moment of inspiration, the horny executive decides to bring Talbert's hated ex-lover, Jeffrey Anderson (Kevin Kline), back onto the series, with the hope of driving the fragile star to an early retirement. The fact that Anderson's character was decapitated in an earlier episode is seen as a difficult, but not insurmountable, obstacle.
| Starring | Sally Field, Kevin Kline, Robert Downey Jr, Cathy Moriarty, Whoopi Goldberg, Carrie Fisher, Elisabeth Shue, Garry Marshall, Robert Camilletti, John Tesh, Trine Dyrholm, David Dencik, Frank Thiel, Elsebeth Steentoft, Christian Tafdrup, Jacob Lohmann, Jacob, Pauli Ryberg, Claes Bang |
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| Director | Michael Hoffman, Pernille Fischer Christensen |
| Studio | PARAMOUNT HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 32 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Comedy |
| Language | English |
| Dubbed | French, German, Italian, Spanish |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Subtitles | Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish |
| Released | DVD: 14 Oct 2002 Production year: 1991 |
| Format | DVD |
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Critics' reviews (6)
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The inside dope on daytime soap, with Sally Field (she began her career in TV shows such as Gidget and its ilk), Carrie Fisher and Whoopi Goldberg among the stars and creators of a ghastly TV show called The Sun Also Sets. Actors are written out, has-beens stage comebacks, real life echoes fiction, emotional wreckage piles up, you know the rest. As for the always brilliant Kevin Kline, he's been off the show for years. But, executive producer Robert Downey Jr and Field's co-star and rival (Cathy Moriarty) want him back to induce Field to leave. Despite some longueurs, this farce has genuinely hysterical moments, and can be seen as a sly reworking of All about Eve for couch potatoes.
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"...A spirited and amusing comedy....[Hoffman] has kept SOAPDISH moving at the crackling pace this kind of material demands..."
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Lightweight fun
If you like Kevin Kline, you will like this film.
Nothing heavy, daft plot but good fun. -
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Lightweight fun
If you like Kevin Kline, you will like this film.
Nothing heavy, daft plot but good fun. -
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Soapdish
Jealousy and intrigue, on and off the set of a popular daytime soap opera. Celeste Talbert (Sally Field) is the neurotic diva of "The Sun Also Sets," but her popularity with the show's fans does not extend to her relationships with her envious co-stars. Sultry Montana Moorehead (Cathy Moriarty) has ...
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