Take My Advice:  The Ann and Abby Story

Take My Advice: The Ann and Abby Story

1999 · 90 min · ★ 4.2 · Comedy, Drama, TV Movie

Biography of feuding advice columnist twins, Ann Landers and Abby Van Buren, starts with their early lives in Sioux City, Iowa when they were known as Esther and Pauline through their double wedding and follows them into their columnist successes. However, much of the film also concentrates on their personal and professional feuds that ran the course of their lives. Written by John Sacksteder

Directed by Alan Metzger · Written by Adam Gilad

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