Ellen: The Movie ShowABC
November 22, 1995
Sitcom
DVD
B-
This Newman & Stark episode is notable for the appearance of Joely Fisher's half-sister Carrie as herself. While there are definitely moments I like, especially when Ellen is a very bad extra, it's a little hard, particularly these days, to watch Carrie play such a depressed and depressing version of herself. (However, Ellen asking what Harrison Ford is really like has gotten funnier in the meantime.) Additional irony by the passage of time: in 1995, Meg Ryan (only referred to, multiple times) being in a bookstore movie was hypothetical, since it wouldn't be till '98 that she'd make the dismal You've Got Mail.
Michael Des Barres, who at this point had done two of his three Roseannne appearances (one as Leon's boyfriend), here does his first of two for Ellen, as Nigel the Director.
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