I Ought to Be in Pictures

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I Ought to Be in Pictures ★★ 1982 (PG)

After hitchhiking from New York to Hollywood to break into the movies, a teenage actress finds her father, a screenwriter turned alcoholic-gambler. Late, desperately unfunny Neil Simon outing, adapted from a Simon play. 107m/C VHS . Walter Matthau, Ann-Margret, Dinah Manoff, Lance Guest, Michael Dudikoff; D: Herbert Ross; W: Neil Simon; M: Marvin Hamlisch.