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This Is My Life is a 1992 American comedy-drama film that marked the directorial debut of screenwriter Nora Ephron. The screenplay, written by Ephron and her sister, Delia Ephron, is based on the book, This Is Your Life, by Meg Wolitzer.

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This Is My Life
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Nora Ephron
Screenplay by	Nora Ephron Delia Ephron
Based on	This Is Your Life by Meg Wolitzer
Produced by	Lynda Obst
Starring	Julie Kavner Samantha Mathis Gaby Hoffmann Carrie Fisher Dan Aykroyd
Cinematography	Bobby Byrne
Edited by	Robert M. Reitano
Music by	Carly Simon
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date	February 21, 1992 (1992-02-21)
Running time	105 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$10 million[1]
Box office	$2,922,094[2]

Plot

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Dottie Ingels works at a cosmetics counter but aspires to be a stand-up comedian. Ingels' Aunt Harriet dies and leaves the family her home in Queens, which Ingels then sells to move to an apartment in Manhattan. Ingels' comedy career starts to take off with the help of her agent, Arnold Moss and Moss's assistant, Claudia Curtis. Ingels' children, Erica and Opal get angry at Dottie because they hardly ever see her. Erica and Opal then run away to find their father upstate in Albany, whom Opal doesn't even remember, being only 1 or 2 years old when he left them.

Cast

Production

The film was at Columbia Pictures but was put into turnaround in 1990. Ephron allegedly asked Jon Peters if he had read the script who answered that "I've made over 60 movies. I don't have to read a script to know whether it works or not."[3]

The character portrayed by Aykroyd, Arnold Moss, is based on the famous New York talent agent Sam Cohn, and has some of the eccentricities for which Cohn was known, such as a habit of eating paper.[4]

Soundtrack

The film's soundtrack was performed by Carly Simon and released on Qwest Records. Although the album failed to chart, the single "Love of My Life" reached No. 16 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart.

Reception

This Is My Life was met with lukewarm critical responses. On Rotten Tomatoes, it has an approval of 36% rating based on reviews from 14 critics, with an average rating of 5.5/10.[5]

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave it 3 out of 4.[6][7] Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly gave it a C+.[8]

In 2020, David Sims of The Atlantic called it "the forgotten gem in Ephron’s filmmaking career".[9]

Home media

20th Century Fox released the film on DVD-R in 2012 as part of its Fox Cinema Archives line.[10]

Sources

• LeVasseur, Andrea "This Is My Life". Allmovie.

References

External links

• This Is My Life at IMDb
• This Is My Life at the TCM Movie Database
• This Is My Life at AllMovie

На других языках

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- [en] This Is My Life (1992 film)

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[ru] Это моя жизнь (фильм)

«Это моя жизнь» (англ. This Is My Life, 1992) — американский художественный фильм — дебютная кинолента режиссёра Норы Эфрон по одноимённой книге американской писательницы Мэг Волитцер (англ. Meg Wolitzer). Сценарий к фильму написала Нора Эфрон совместно со своей сестрой Делией Эфрон.

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