text: Gradually, Jessie bonds with the Starkeys' other retainers: cook Audrey (Merry Clayton), a failed singer; fellow maid Maria (Begoña Plaza); and chauffeur Nick (Michael Ontkean), an aspiring songwriter. Jessie learns the true meaning of friendship, hard work, and self-respect...while falling in love with Nick. When she helps Nick and Audrey break into the music business, Jessie's old life is returned to her; her dad and everyone else recognize her again. However, being a better and more mature person, Jessie continues her relationship with Nick; the ending implies that they ultimately get married.
  Cast
  Ally Sheedy – Jessie Montgomery
  Beverly D'Angelo – Stella Winston
  Michael Ontkean – Nick McGuire
  Valerie Perrine – Georgette Starkey
  Dick Shawn – Stan Starkey
  Tom Skerritt – Charles Montgomery
  Merry Clayton – Audrey James
  Begoña Plaza – Maria
  Rain Phoenix – Brie Starkey (as Rainbow Phoenix)
  Theodore Wilson - Woodrow
  Jason Beghe - Brent
  Katey Sagal - Louise
  Victoria Catlin - Alicia Nolin
  Khandi Alexander - Hooker in Jail
  Henry Woolf - Jailer
  Robert Jaffe - Miles
  George Chala Sr - Gas Station owner (Uncredited)
  Reception
  Reviews were negative. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times "found it too easy to anticipate most of the big moments and too hard to believe that Sheedy was really a spoiled, mean-spirited rich bitch." Janet Maslin in The New York Times praised Sheedy, saying her "petulant manner and her air of faint distaste for her surroundings are just right for this role. And she shows herself to be an able physical comedienne."