''Pretty Smart'' is a 1987 American

comedy-drama Comedy drama, also known by the portmanteau ''dramedy'', is a genre of dramatic works that combines elements of comedy and drama. The modern, scripted-television examples tend to have more humorous bits than simple comic relief seen in a typical ...

film starring

Tricia Leigh Fisher Tricia Leigh Fisher is an American actress and singer. Early life Fisher was born to singer Eddie Fisher (singer), Eddie Fisher and actress Connie Stevens. Her older sister is actress and singer Joely Fisher. She has two half-siblings, actor a ...

and

Patricia Arquette Patricia Tiffany Arquette (born April 8, 1968) is an American actress. She made her feature film debut as Kristen Parker in '' A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors'' (1987). Her other notable films include ''True Romance'' (1993), ''Ed Wo ...

. It was directed by

Dimitri Logothetis Dimitri Logothetis is a Greek-American actor, director, comedian, and producer. Early life Logothetis was born in Athens, Greece, and immigrated to the United States of America at the age of six with his mother, Anna, and his father, Euthymios. ...

. It was Arquette's first film. It was mostly filmed in

Athens Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates ...

with most interiors and some exteriors at the

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Plot

In an effort to curb her wild antics, the parents of Zig (

) send her to the Ogilvy Academy, an elite

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, along with her well-behaved

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sister Jennifer (Lisa Lörient). Determined to be expelled at the earliest opportunity, Zig will go to extreme lengths to have her way.

Cast

as Daphne "Zig" Ziegler * Lisa Lörient as Jennifer Ziegler *

as Zero *

Dennis Cole Dennis Cole (July 19, 1940 – November 15, 2009) was an American actor in film and television. A familiar face on the screen during the 1960s and 1970s, Cole made guest appearances in numerous television series. After the 1991 murder of Jo ...

as Richard Crawley * Elizabeth Davis as Diane * Kimberly B. Delfin as Yuko *

Joely Fisher Joely Fisher ( /ˈdʒoʊˌli/ born October 29, 1967) is an American actress and singer, the daughter of singer Eddie Fisher and actress Connie Stevens, and half-sister of actress Carrie Fisher. Her breakthrough came in 1994, starring as Paige Cl ...

as Averil * Charlotte-Michele Grenzer as Michelle * Syndle Kirkland as Andrea * Holly Nelson as Jessica * Julie Kristen Smith as Samantha Falconwright * Paris Vaughan as Torch * Kim Waltrip as Sara Gentry *

Philece Sampler Debra Philece Sampler (July 16, 1953 – July 1, 2021) was an American film, television and voice actress. She got her start on the soap operas ''Days of Our Lives'' as Renée DuMonde and '' Another World'' as Donna Love Hudson. In addition to ...

as Beth

DVD release

''Pretty Smart'' was released on

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in 2005 by Boulevard Entertainment.

References

External links

* * * 1987 films 1980s coming-of-age comedy-drama films 1980s teen comedy-drama films American coming-of-age comedy-drama films American independent films American teen comedy-drama films 1987 independent films New World Pictures films Films set in Greece Films shot in Athens Films directed by Dimitri Logothetis 1980s English-language films 1980s American films {{1980s-comedy-drama-film-stub