Single mom Dottie Ingels sells cosmetics in a department store, but she dreams of being a comedian. When she inherits some money, she takes the chance and moves with her two children Erica and Opel to New York to perform in small bars. Soon her agent Arnold Moss makes her famous, but while she travels all over USA, her children stay home lonely.

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