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Only When I Laugh (1981): A debonnaire business manager falls for a sexy damsel-in-distress who unbeknownst to him is a pathological liar. He becomes obsessed with helping her escape her ex-husband and poverty while becoming entagled in her voluminous web of lies. Reaching the point where he is forced to sell his business, he finally expects she has been unfaithful and untangles her lies using one clue, the nervous chuckle she often makes while laughing. To his horror she is still married (and madly in love with) her "ex." |
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Only When I Laugh (1981): Comedienne and animal activist Elayne Boosler makes her first television appearance in this live telecast from a New York town hall. |
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Only When I Laugh (1981): Michael Hunter stars in this hit-or-miss screwball comedy, best-known for introducing the "milk through the nose" gag to a whole new generation. |
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Only When I Laugh (1981): A Woody Allenesque science teacher who has drunk deeply from his own test tubes one time too many changes briefly into a hyena every time he laughs. A comical twist on the werewolf legend. |
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Only When I Laugh (1981): An early Penn & Teller film, they play two street hustlers trying to get along in the streets of New York. But their streetwise cons and comic tomfoolery belie their sad, empty lives; they go in search of something more meaningful but can't seem to let go of their old lives. Will love and friendship be strong enough? |
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Only When I Laugh (1981): A boozy Broadway actress comes out of a 12-week cure to face the problems of her best friends as well as her needy daughter. She tries to balance the terrors of returning to work with the demands of all around her with humor and insight, while staying off the booze. |
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None of the synopses above could possibly be legitimate! |
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I give up! What is the answer? |
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