Only When I Laugh (film)

Only When I Laugh is a 1981 film based on Neil Simons play The Gingerbread Lady.

Actress Georgia Hines is being released from a rehab center where she has been undergoing treatment for alcoholism and weight gain. She returns to her Manhattan apartment to begin a new sober life with her supportive friends Jimmy, an unemployed actor, and Toby, a sophisticated, vain socialite. She pledges to both that she will maintain her sobriety and slowly ease back into theatre work.Less than a week after her return, Georgias enthusiastic teenaged daughter Polly, who has been living with Georgias exhusband and his new wife, asks if she could move in. Georgia agrees, although not completely convinced she is ready. She and Jimmy repaint the apartment to remove the martini stains from the wall as a symbolic gesture towards her new life with her new daughter. Just as Polly arrives, Georgia accepts a telephone call from her exlover, writer David Lowe, who asks if they could meet. With a renewed sense of confidence she strongly refuses David and hangs up. ........

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