It stars Sally Field as an aging soap star, joined by Kevin Kline, Robert Downey, Jr., Elisabeth Shue, Whoopi Goldberg, Teri Hatcher, Cathy Moriarty, Garry Marshall, Kathy Najimy, and Carrie Fisher, as well as cameo appearances by TV personalities like Leeza Gibbons, John Tesh (both playing themselves as Entertainment Tonight hosts/reporters), real-life soap opera actors, Stephen Nichols and Finola Hughes and Ben Stein.
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Harling will adapt his screenplay for the book, with music by George Stiles and lyrics by Anthony Drewe.
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Soapdish was directed by Michael Hoffman, from a screenplay by Robert Harling and Andrew Bergman.