Single mom Dottie Ingels sells cosmetics in a department store while dreaming of becoming a comedian. After she inherits some money, she decides to move to New York with her children Erica and Opal in order to begin a stand-up career in small bars. Dottie soon rises to stardom, but while she travels all over the USA, her daughters stay home lonely.

• 20th Century Fox
• Julie Kavner
• Samantha Mathis
• Gaby Hoffmann
• Carrie Fisher
• Dan Aykroyd
• Bob Nelson
• Marita Geraghty
• Welker White