Film

Take My Advice: The Ann and Abby Story

1999 · 1h 30m · Comedy · Drama · TV Movie

IMDb

5.7

Biography of feuding advice columnist twins, Ann Landers and Abby Van Buren, starts with their early lives in Sioux City, Iowa when they were known as Esther and Pauline through their double wedding and follows them into their columnist successes. However, much of the film also concentrates on their personal and professional feuds that ran the course of their lives. Written by John Sacksteder

Wendie Malick

Ann Landers / Abigail Van Buren

Robert Desiderio

Mort

Kip Gilman

Jules (as Kenneth David Gilman)

Michelle Duffy

Grown Margo

David Groh

Abe

Tyler Gannon

Young Margo

Joann Johnson

Rebecca

Karen Johnson-Miller

Beauty parlor woman #1

Angela Nicole Babb

Beauty parlor woman #2

Raissa Fleming

Beauty parlor woman #3

Tobias Anderson

Dean Evans

George Fosgate

Cardinal Ryan

Ted Roisum

Vatican Bishop

Robert D. Heath Jr.

John Daly

Dennis Bateman

Edward R. Murrow

Carol Jones

Dais speaker

• Alan MetzgerDirector
• Howard BurkonsWriter · Producer
• Adam GiladWriter · Producer
• Gideon AmirProducer
• Eric Van Haren NomanDirector of Photography
• Seth FlaumEditor

Release date

July 19, 1999

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 30m

Genres

Comedy, Drama, TV Movie

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