Apr 1st  
Soapdish**   
(US 1991)                 
Paramount. 97m.

Backstage jealousies and melodramas on a popular American soap opera begin to spill out in front of camera.
Often overplayed but still consistently funny spoof of TV soaps, which looks to satirize them but ultimately settles quite comfortably into their niche.

Written by: Robert Harling, Andrew Bergman.
Producers: Aaron Spelling, Alan Greisman.
Director: Michael Hoffman.
Starring: Sally Field, Kevin Kline, Whoopi Goldberg, Robert Downey Jnr, Elisabeth Shue, Cathy Moriarty, Teri Hatcher, Garry Marshall, Carrie Fisher, Kathy Najimy.
Photography: Ueli Steiger.
Music: Alan Silvestri.
Production Design: Eugenio Zanetti.