Movie: Take My Advice: The Ann and Abby Story

Top 10 Billed Cast

Wendie Malick
Wendie Malick

Ann Landers / Abigail Van Buren

Robert Desiderio
Robert Desiderio

Mort

Kip Gilman
Kip Gilman

Jules (as Kenneth David Gilman)

Michelle Duffy
Michelle Duffy

Grown Margo

David Groh
David Groh

Abe

Tyler Gannon
Tyler Gannon

Young Margo

Joann Johnson
Joann Johnson

Rebecca

Karen Johnson-Miller
Karen Johnson-Miller

Beauty parlor woman #1

Angela Nicole Babb
Angela Nicole Babb

Beauty parlor woman #2

Raissa Fleming
Raissa Fleming

Beauty parlor woman #3

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    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

  • Release Date

    1999-07-19

  • Average

    3.5

  • Rating:

    1.8 starts
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    English
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