Only When I Laugh

1981

Action / Comedy / Drama

5
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 63% · 8 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 75% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.4/10 10 1850 1.9K

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Plot summary

A boozy Broadway actress comes out of a 12-week cure to face the problems of her best friends as well as her needy daughter. She tries to balance the terrors of returning to work with the demands of all around her with humor and insight, while staying off the booze.

Director

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Glenn Jordan

Top cast

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Kevin Bacon as Don
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John Vargas as Manuel
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Frank Slaten as Restaurant Patron
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Rebecca Stanley as Denise Summers
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1.08 GB
1280*714
English 2.0
R
us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 59 min
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2 GB
1920*1072
English 2.0
R
us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 59 min
Seeds ...

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Kellie G 7 / 10

A very in between movie. Marcia Mason’s character

A very in between movie. Marcia Mason’s character out of rehab and not making the best choices . I think it works she is both frustrating and sympathetic. Her friends and her daughter stick together with her but call her on some of her choices. It’s believably messy like life . They mess up and make jokes about it. Very relatable.
Reviewed by Ed . 6 / 10

I laugh only when it's funny. More of

I laugh only when it's funny. More of a smile-riot than a laugh one, but enjoyable for its plot as well as for a nostalgic view of an early 80s NYC. Also, the last of the 60s/70s style Simon film before he went off on a path similar to Woody Allen, albeit more middlebrow.
Reviewed by Michael H 10 / 10

One of my childhood favorites. Completely changed from

One of my childhood favorites. Completely changed from a serious comedy. To a very serious film with light-hearted moments. Tragic-Comedy with a devastating performance from Marsha Mason, she shines even brighter here than in The Goodbye Girl, who's holding on too hard and naturally relapses. Maybe because her ex-Beau, playwright (David Dukes) introduces his new Girlfriend. We see on Mason's face her joyous optimism slowly crumble into her abyss of dreadful endings, she puts on a brave face, a performance of 'I'm so happy for you both' - then her bestie, Toby cancels her fortieth birthday bash cause her husband is leaving her and her other bestie, James Coco gets fired from the first acting gig he's had in years. Everything is falling apart around her except her strong, emotionally intelligent, wiser beyond her years, held together by her loss of time with Mom and her guilt daughter, played by Kristie McNichol. The supporting players are all wonderful especially Joan Hackett as the uptown, watching herself cause no one will, holding to her beauty like Mason holding on to her sobriety -it's going crumble, weighs herself like gold and silver, never lets anyone see anything but perfection, is the one who puts Georgia on the path of 'try...try better' - See the good in your life. Only When I Laugh has been the inspiration for lots of later films and Tv shows.-It's the finest film work of Marsha Mason who is Harrowing at the same time wickedly funny and at times manic but always grounded...in a more hopeful, redemptive future. Not always her own....with her daughter and her best friends.
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