Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even
| Big Girls Don't Cry...They Get Even | |
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| Directed by | Joan Micklin Silver |
| Produced by | Gerald T. Olson |
| Written by | Mark Goddard |
| Starring |
Hillary Wolf Griffin Dunne Patricia Kalember Ben Savage Adrienne Shelly Dan Futterman Margaret Whitton David Strathairn |
| Music by | Patrick Williams |
| Cinematography | Theo van de Sande |
| Edited by | Janice Hampton |
| Distributed by | New Line Cinema |
Release dates | May 8, 1992 |
Running time | 104 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1 million |
| Box office | $271,327 |
Big Girls Don't Cry...They Get Even (titled Stepkids in early promotional trailers and in Australia) is a 1992 American comedy film directed by Joan Micklin Silver.
Plot
Laura Chartoff is a teenage girl in a large dysfunctional family. After her parent's divorce, her father, David, has now accumulated three more ex-wives, a four-year-old daughter (with fourth wife Barbara), and is living with Stephanie – who is in advanced pregnancy with his twins. Laura's mother, Melinda, had her own two-day marriage and is now married to her third husband, Keith Power. Keith is a successful businessman and a widower with three kids of his own – resentful adult son Josh, self-obsessed teenaged daughter Corinne (who bonds with her similarly shallow step-mother), and teenaged son Kurt. Added to the mix of siblings and step-siblings is halfbrother and ten year old genius Sam, the result of an unexpected pregnancy for Melinda and Keith.
Josh visits his mother's grave on the anniversary of her death, then confronts Keith for forgetting the date. Later, Laura gets in trouble with Keith and Barbara and runs away to live with her older stepbrother at his lake side cabin as (step)siblings with a mutual frustration against Keith and Melinda.
Keith deduces that Laura will be with Josh ("brats of a feather"), but when the family arrives at the cabin, she runs away on her own thinking Josh ratted her out. Laura meets a host of colorful characters along the way including teen robbers and an all too happy family. Her entire family stays, crowded into Josh's and a second rental cabin, to search for her, having their own adventures and realizations over the next two days. After realizing she can't escape her family, Laura returns to the cabin to embrace the "weirdness" of her extended family, who have all sorted out their own lives a little more during their shared search for Laura.
Cast
- Hillary Wolf as Laura Chartoff
- Griffin Dunne as David Chartoff
- Ben Savage as Sam Powers
- Adrienne Shelly as Stephanie
- Dan Futterman as Josh Powers
- Patricia Kalember as Barbara Chartoff
- Jenny Lewis as Corinne Powers
- Margaret Whitton as Melinda Chartoff Powers
- David Strathairn as Keith Powers
- Trenton Teigen[1] as Kurt Powers
- Jessica Seely as Jessie Chartoff
Production
The movie was filmed using permits to access locations in California's east central Mammoth Ranger District in the Inyo National Forest, as well as locations in the (former) Arroyo Seco Ranger District of the Angeles National Forest near Los Angeles.
Much of the lake side action takes place at Lake Mamie in Mammoth Lakes, California, with Mammoth Crest, Crystal Crag and Lake Mary Road visible in many scenes.[2]
References
- ↑ "Trenton Teigen". Retrieved 17 December 2012.
- ↑ "Crystal Crag Photos on Web". itoda.com. Retrieved 2015-10-20.
External links
- Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even at the Internet Movie Database
- Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even at Rotten Tomatoes