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1992 film by Nora Ephron

This Is My Life is a 1992 American comedy-drama film. It stars Julie Kavner as a working class single mother trying to break into stand-up comedy who struggles to juggle her newfound fame with her existing responsibilities as a parent.

The film—adapted from the 1988 novel This Is Your Life by Meg Wolitzer—marked the directorial debut of screenwriter Nora Ephron, who also co-wrote the screenplay with her sister Delia Ephron.

Plot

Dottie Ingels is a single mother in Queens who works on a Macy'scosmetics counter but aspires to be a stand-up comedian.

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She and her two daughters—bookish teenager Erica and pre-teen Opal—have lived with Dottie's aunt Harriet ever since Dottie's ex-husband, Norm, walked out on them several years earlier. Dottie dreams of stardom but keeps bumping up against the reality of living paycheck to paycheck, and the only way she can practice her material is while selling cosmetics.

When Harriet