Dear Diary is a TV pilot, starring Bebe Neuwirth, written and directed by David Frankel and produced by Frankel and Barry Jossen. After being rejected by ABC, it was slightly edited and put into a single Los Angeles theater for a weekend in November 1996, and went on to win an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film at the 69th Academy Awards. It was the only made-for-TV pilot ever to win an Oscar.
Plot The film revolves around a New York magazine art director, married and the mother of two, who, having just turned 40, decides to record the events of her day in a journal.
Cast Bruce Altman as Griffin Bebe Neuwirth as Annie Brian Kerwin as Tom Rhea Silver-Smith as Sara Peter Brown as Peter Cheryl Freeman as Elizabeth Lisa Louise Langford as Stacey Haviland Morris as Christie Mike Starr as Fritz Ronald Guttman as Erik Jeff Blumenkrantz as Ron Peter Jacobson as Hal Peter Vack as Peter Peter Giles as Gary The New York Times Movies References
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