Vada Sultenfuss has a holiday coming up, and an assignment: to do and essay on someone she admires and has never met. She decides she wants to do an assignment on her mother, but quickly realises she knows very little about her. She manages to get her father to agree to let her go to LA to stay with her Uncle Phil and do some research on her mother.
Anna Chlumsky
as Vada Sultenfuss
Austin O'Brien
as Nick Zsigmond
Dan Aykroyd
as Harry Sultenfuss
Jamie Lee Curtis
as Shelly Sultenfuss
Richard Masur
as Phil Sultenfuss
Christine Ebersole
as Rose Zsigmond
JD Souther
as Jeffrey Pommeroy
Angeline Ball
as Maggie Muldovan
Aubrey Morris
as Alfred Beidermeyer
Gerrit Graham
as Dr. Sam Helburn
Anthony R. Jones
as Arthur
Ben Stein
as Stanley Rosenfeld
