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Take My Advice: The Ann and Abby Story
19993.51h 30m
Overview
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
Directed by Alan Metzger
Written by Howard Burkons, Adam Gilad
Produced by Gideon Amir, Howard Burkons, Adam Gilad
0Top Cast
Wendie Malick
Ann Landers / Abigail Van Buren
Robert Desiderio
Mort
Kip Gilman
Jules (as Kenneth David Gilman)
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Michelle Duffy
Grown Margo
David Groh
Abe
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Tyler Gannon
Young Margo
J
Joann Johnson
Rebecca
K
Karen Johnson-Miller
Beauty parlor woman #1
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Angela Nicole Babb
Beauty parlor woman #2
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Raissa Fleming
Beauty parlor woman #3
Themes & Keywords
sibling relationshiptwinsdual rolecolumniststar turn
About Take My Advice: The Ann and Abby Story
Take My Advice: The Ann and Abby Story is a comedy, drama, tv movie film released in 1999 exploring themes of sibling relationship, twins, dual role, columnist, star turn. Directed by Alan Metzger, it stars Wendie Malick, Robert Desiderio, Kip Gilman. 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
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