Soapdish is a 1991 comedy film which tells a backstage story of the cast and crew of a popular fictional television soap opera. It stars Sally Field as an aging soap star, joined by Kevin Kline, Robert Downey, Jr., Elisabeth Shue, Whoopi Goldberg, Teri Hatcher, Cathy Moriarty, Garry Marshall, Kathy Najimy, and Carrie Fisher, as well as cameo appearances by TV personalities like Leeza Gibbons, John Tesh , and Ben Stein. Kline was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for the film. Soapdish was directed by Michael Hoffman, from a screenplay... by Robert Harling and Andrew Bergman. The film was produced by Aaron Spelling and Field's then-husband Alan Greisman. It was announced in February 2011 that comedian/actor Ben Schwartz will pen a remake of the film . Celeste Talbert, the longtime star of the popular daytime drama The Sun Also Sets, is targeted by costar Montana Moorehead; Montana connives to supplant Celeste as the show's star by promising sexual favors to its producer, David Seton Barnes.
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| Release date: | 1991 |
| Directed by: | Michael Hoffman |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 92 Minutes |
| Producer: | Alan Greisman, Aaron Spelling |
| Music by: | Alan Silvestri |
| Screenplay by: | Robert Harling, Andrew Bergman |
| Estimated budget: | $7,000,000 |
| Genre: | Comedy |