I Ought to Be in Pictures

Year: 1982

Runtime: 108 mins

Language: English

Director: Herbert Ross

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Libby Tucker hitchhikes from Brooklyn to Los Angeles, hoping to enter Hollywood and surprise her estranged screenwriter father. She tells her grandmother—who tends a New York cemetery—that she hasn't seen her dad for most of her life. Arriving Tuesday, Libby calls him, stays at Stephanie’s house—Jane Fonda’s—and decides to confront him face‑to‑face.

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