Take My Advice: The Ann and Abby Story

Alan Metzger
1999-07-19


3.5
90 min

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

Cast

Name Character Team
Wendie Malick Ann Landers / Abigail Van Buren Unowned
Robert Desiderio Mort Unowned
Kip Gilman Jules (as Kenneth David Gilman) Unowned
Michelle Duffy Grown Margo Unowned
David Groh Abe Unowned
Tyler Gannon Young Margo Unowned
Joann Johnson Rebecca Unowned
Karen Johnson-Miller Beauty parlor woman #1 Unowned
Angela Nicole Babb Beauty parlor woman #2 Unowned
Raissa Fleming Beauty parlor woman #3 Unowned
Tobias Anderson Dean Evans Unowned
George Fosgate Cardinal Ryan Unowned
Ted Roisum Vatican Bishop Unowned
Robert D. Heath Jr. John Daly Unowned
Dennis Bateman Edward R. Murrow Unowned
Carol Jones Dais speaker Unowned