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She doesn't want much. Just a whole new life. - Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael
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Title: Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael

Release Date: 12 Oct 1990

Runtime: 1h 35m

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Director: Paramount Pictures, ITC Entertainment

Production Companies: Paramount Pictures, ITC Entertainment

Overview: Movie star Roxy Carmichael is abandoning the bright lights of Hollywood, Calif. and returning to her small Ohio hometown -- at least long enough to dedicate a city building. And now the whole town of Clyde is bracing for Carmichael's return, most of all her now-married old flame Denton Webb and troubled teen Dinky Bossetti. An orphan with few friends, Dinky is convinced that Carmichael is her birth mother, and that the actress will reclaim her when she returns.

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Average Vote: 6.211 (102 votes)

Cast

  • Dinky Bossetti: Winona Ryder
  • Denton Webb: Jeff Daniels
  • Mayor Bill Klepler: Stephen Tobolowsky
  • Evelyn Whittacher: Dinah Manoff
  • Elizabeth Zaks: Laila Robins
  • Gerald Howells: Thomas Wilson Brown
  • Barbara Webb: Joan McMurtrey
  • Les Bossetti: Graham Beckel
  • Rochelle Bossetti: Frances Fisher
  • Beannie Billings: Robby Kiger
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