Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even (1992)

Director:

Joan Micklin Silver

Writers (WGA):

Frank Mugavero (story) and
Mark Goddard (story) ...

Release Date:

8 May 1992 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot:

A girl fed up with her quirky, disfunctional family runs away from home, casusing all of them to spend time with eachother.

Plot Keywords:

Beach House | Breaking The Fourth Wall | Runaway | Dysfunctional Family | Reference To Don Ho

Cast

Griffin Dunne	...	David
Dan Futterman	...	Josh
Patricia Kalember	...	Barbara
Jenny Lewis	...	Corinne
Ben Savage	...	Sam
Jessica Seely	...	Jessie
Adrienne Shelly	...	Stephanie
David Strathairn	...	Keith
Trenton Teigen	...	Kurt
Margaret Whitton	...	Melinda
Hillary Wolf	...	Laura Chartoff
Sean Blackman	...	Runaway Boy #1
Joe D'Angerio	...	Mr. Zordani
Cory Danziger	...	Leonard
Leslie Kendall Dye	...	Melissa (as Leslie Engelberg)

Also Known As:

Stepkids

Runtime:

96 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

USA:PG | Iceland:L

Filming Locations:

Arroyo-Seco Ranger District, Angeles National Forest, California, USA

Company:

New Line Cinema

Goofs:

Continuity: As Laura is taking a picture of the Smith family (when she first meets them), she is holding the camera vertically in one shot, and then horizontally in the next.

Quotes:

Laura Chartoff: He's the nicest guy though, ask anyone, but the thing is, he's almost 40, looks like he's 30, thinks like he's 20, and acts like he's 10. He's fun to play board games with.

Movie Connections:

References "The Brady Bunch" (1969)

Soundtrack:

The Brady Bunch Theme

A Great Cast with a mediocre script!

A girl, Laura, played admirably by Hilary Wolf is a child of divorce and remarriages. In this film, she decides to bail out of her posh Los Angeles home where she lives with her mother played by the divine Margaret Whitton and her stepfather, Keith, played by David Strathairn. She runs away to her stepbrother JOsh's home in the mountains while her family is planning to vacation in Hawaii which screws up their vacation plans. When they all make a detour, Laura runs away again to fend on herself. She's smart and brassy and thinks she knows it all. Her family including her stepbrother, half-brother Sam, and stepsister Corinne played by the wonderful Jenny Lewis remain in the California mountains until they find Laura. In the meantime, her real father, an artist, arrives from San Francisco with his former wife played by Patricia Kalember and Stephanie, a young girl who is pregnant with his twins. He also has a daughter, Jessie with Kalember's character. They await for Laura to return on her own but in the meantime, the family is together. It's an unusual comedy and drama but it works because of the cast.