Rating: PG13
Genre: Comedy Drama
Release Date: 08/30/2005
SubTitles: French/Espanol
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD2
Run Time: 96 Minutes
Distributor/Studio: Riverbend Entertainment

Award-winning actor Tony Shalhoub adds the "director" hyphenate to his calling card with this labor of love, starring his wife, Brooke Adams, and written by his sister-in-law, Lynne Adams. Made-Up lightly parodies the reality-TV "makeover" craze as it tells the tale of Elizabeth (Brooke Adams), a middle-aged divorcée who agrees to be made over by her daughter Sara (Eva Amurri), a process which will be documented for eternity by her aspiring-filmmaker sister, Kate (Lynne Adams). A former actress still smarting over her long-since faded stardom, Elizabeth is none too pleased at having her transformation videotaped, but she goes along with it, and soon finds that her "new you" is winning over the affections of a new beau, restaurateur Max (Shalhoub). But self-doubt continues to nag at Elizabeth, to the point where she almost undermines her own chances at romance. Lynne Adams based her screenplay on her own one-woman play; Gary Sinise makes an appearance as Elizabeth's ex-husband.

~ Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide

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Cast:
Brooke Adams - Elizabeth James Tivey
Lynne Adams - Kate James
Eva Amurri - Sara Tivey
Kalen Conover - Chris
Light Eternity - Molly Avrums
Jim Issa - Eli
Lance Krall - Simon
Tony Shalhoub - Max Hires
Gary Sinise - Duncan Tivey

Production:
Tony Shalhoub - Director
Brooke Adams Lynne Adams Mark Donadio - Producer
Michael Wolff - Composer
Michael Matzdorff - Editor
Lynne Adams - Screen Writer
Gary Henoch - Cinematographer
Miriam Feldman - Production Designer

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