Big Girls Don’t Cry… They Get Even (1991): Cast, Box Office & Plot

Laura Chartoff [Hillary Wolf], a 15-year-old girl, grows up inside a sprawling, chaotic clan splintered by divorce, where affection often competes with self-interest and competing loyalties. Her father, David [Griffin Dunne], is a free-spirited artist who keeps moving from one marriage to another, now living with his fourth wife Barbara [Patricia Kalember], and their child Jessie. Laura’s mother, Melinda [Margaret Whitton], has also kept remarrying and is currently with Keith [David Strathairn], a successful but sometimes calculating businessman who is a widower with three kids of his own—Josh [Dan Futterman], Corinne [Jenny Lewis], and Kurt [Trenton Teigen]. To complicate matters further, Laura’s half-brother Sam [Ben Savage], a precocious 10-year-old, adds another layer to the family dynamic.