A young woman, struggling to become a novelist, has her life go into a tailspin. Her first novel is rejected, her non-committal boy friend decides to take a powder, her best friend moves to Mexico for an acting job, and her mother announces that her long presumed dead father is actually a hippie photographer who has come to town to meet her. Sinking into a depression at being a total failure at 28, she starts fantasizing about suicide. In her depths of despair she meets various eccentric characters including a chain-smoking Santa Claus and an obnoxious literary agent. But her belief in herself is only restored when she meets a patient in a hospital where she does volunteer work.

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Cast

Dedee Pfeiffer

Emily Hall

Laura Leighton

Amber Lee

Teri Garr

Mona Hall

Howard Hesseman

Yogi Cook

Bert Remsen

Mr. Finch

Lorraine Toussaint

Janie

Octavia Spencer

Nurse #2

Merrin Dungey

Sheila

Fran Bennett

Mrs. Quinn

Sirena Irwin

Gabby

Eric Close

Mike

Stefan Marks

Jerry