warn represent possible spoiler ( but not really keep reading ) . ahhh and there be so many reason to become utterly addict to this spoof gem that i would not have room to list them all . the opening credit set the playful scene with kitsch late 1950s cartoon still while an enchant peres prez prado mambo theme which appear to be curiously uncredited ( but his grunt be unmistakable and and no one else do them ) while and with familiar cast name and include kathy najimi a full year before she hit with sister act 1 and 2 plus teri hatcher from tv superman . every scene be imbue with shallow injustice fling at various actor and actress and producer in daytime tv . peek behind the career of these people be all just an excuse for an old fashion and delicious farce . robert harling pen this riotous spoof that play like an issue of mad magazine and but feel like a gift to u in the audience . some of the cliched character be a bit dim and but everyone be drizzle with high jealousy and especially against celeste talbert ( sally field ) who be the show perennial award win lead and nickname america sweetheart . the daytime emmy like award open do introduce u to celeste show and the sun also set . against all vain fear to the contrary and celeste win again . she be overjoy and because it always such a genuine thrill represent adam and do you watch . i win . well and nguh . the reason for adam absence soon become the justification for the entire plot and and be instantly off on a trip with celeste neurosis . she cry and screech and and wring her hand though the rest of the movie while her dresser tawnee ( kathy najimi and constantly waddle after celeste and unseen through celeste fog of paranoia ) indulge a taste for tammy faye baker and for which tawnee have be in fact specifically hire . rosie schwartz ( whoopi goldberg ) have see it all before . she be the head writer of the show and and she and celeste have be excellent support network to each other for 15 year . so when celeste freak and rosie offer to write her off the show for six month represent we will just say that maggie go to visit with the dalai lama . but celeste have doubt represent i think that the dalai lama move to la . well and then and some other lama and fernando lama and come on . such a skewering line must be rather affront to still live beefcake actor lorenzo lama and son of aforementioned fernando lama ( d. 1982 ) . those who can remember the economics teacher ( ben stein ) in ferris bueller day off ( 1986 ) a he deadeningly call the roll ( bueller . bueller . bueller ) and will take secret pleasure from see him again a a nitwit writer . other well hidden member of the cast include garry marshall ( in real life mr happy day and brother of penny ) and who get pay $ 1 . 2 million to make the command decision on the sun also set he say he definitely like peppy and cheap while and carrie fisher a betsy faye sharon and who a bitch . geoffrey anderson ( kevin kline ) be the yummy with a spoon ( and he be and by the way ) dinner theater actor now rescue from his hell by david seaton barnes ( robert downey jr ) and and bring back to the same show he be can from 20 year earlier . of course this present some logical challenge for the current scriptwriter because his character and rod randall and be suppose to have be decapitate all those year ago . somehow they work out the logical difficulty and and geoffrey anderson step off the choo choo . celeste can now only get bad and and her trick of go across the washington bridge no longer help . first and her hand shake a she try to put on mascara and but she soon degenerate into a stalker . unfortunately and she can not get rid of geoffrey anderson so easily . geoffrey be promise development of his one man play about hamlet and and he mean to hold the producer to that promise . i be not go back to florida no how . and argue geoffrey . you try play willie loman in front of a bunch of old fart eat meatloaf . and indeed and see geoffrey dinner theater lifestyle amongst all the hocking and accident be hilarious . back in florida in his willie loman fat suit in his room and geoffrey anderson use to chafe at be call to stage a mr loman . he be force to splat whatever cockroach crawl across his tv with a shoe and and to use plier instead of the broken analog channel changer . now he find himself a the yummy surgeon date laurie craven and the show new ingenue while so he not leave . beautiful elizabeth shue ( a laurie ) round out the amaze ensemble cast who all do the fantastic job of those who know the stereotype all too well . but and of course and the course to true love never do run smoothly . montana moorehead ( cathy moriarty ) be get impatient wait for her star to rise and and be get desperate for some publicity . will her plot finally succeed . will celeste settle her nerve and or will she kill tawnee first . will the producer get mr fuzzy . you will just have to watch the second half of this utterly lovable and farcically malicious riot . and you will really have to see to believe how the short sight geoffrey read his line without glass live off the teleprompter . if you be not in stitch with stomach heave laughter and tear pour down your face and feel free to demand your money back for the video rental . soapdish ( 1991 ) be an unmissable gem that you will need to see again and again and because it not often that a movie can deliver so amply with so many hilarious line . this be very well craft humor and almost all of it in the writing . a draw with blaze saddle ( 1974 ) for uproarious apoplexy value and although otherwise dissimilar . watch it and weep . a happy source for anyone video addiction . positive .