Justine Bateman SINGS Satisfaction with Julia Roberts singing BACK-UP!

Back when Julia had a fat ass.

Is there anything she can't do ? She is this millenium's true Goddess. One of a Kind.

I saw this in the movie theater as a very young, very gay ten year old with my uncle who was an actor in Hollywood at the time.

What a blast from the past!

Britta Phillips was the best.

Love love LOVED this movie!

She sucks.

The two boys on the beach were really hot.

Julia Roberts is the biggest global cultural Icon

Julia Roberts is the biggest global cultural Icon

Julia Roberts is the biggest global cultural Icon

Julia Roberts is the biggest global cultural Icon

Julia Roberts is the biggest global cultural Icon

Julia Roberts is the biggest global cultural Icon

Julia Roberts is the biggest global cultural Icon

Julia Roberts is the biggest global cultural Icon

God, I loved LOVED LOVED this movie...we saw it opening weekend, and the audience was HOWLING during it. We nearly died when Justine and her "band" did a cover version of "Mystery Dance" and it looked like she was about to swallow the microphone.

Drugs ruined Justine Bateman's potential for awhile.

R10 - Was it drugs?

She had gained weight in the 90s as in Men Behaving Badly, but looked pretty good.

...To answer your question...

She was addicted to heroin sadly.

She went on to become a born again Christian and a clothing designer.

She is married with children.

Recently she went back to school to get her college degree.

When did she have a heroin addiction?

"Where's the dip?"

"all the dips are dancing"

After season 4, Justin had been accepted into an Ivy League college and planned to leave the show to further her education.

She thought Gary David Goldberg would be okay with it.

He wasn't and neither was the network.

They held her to her contract, and she was really pissed. Her attitude showed on the set.

R15 - Source?

And Justine is going back to college.

Jason got all the looks in that family.

R16

Justine Bateman was a good student in high school (she was tutored on the set and, when she wasn’t filming, attended Taft Charter High School in Woodland Hills), but never went to college because of her Family Ties commitment.

"I didn’t understand that I couldn’t just leave and become sort of a semi-regular. I had to be sat down by the line producer, Carol Himes, in my dressing room and told, ‘I hear you’re thinking about going to college.’ And I said, ‘Thinking about it? Half the writing staff wrote me the recommendations for colleges! And she goes, ‘Well, honey, you can’t go. You’re under contract to Paramount Studios.’ I was like, ‘Can’t I just do some of the episodes now?’"

She was accepted at Dartmouth, Brown, New York and Northwestern

She was so devastated that NBC held her to her contract, she shelved the idea of college after the show ended thinking "what's the point"

Thanks R18

Nonsense, R17. Jason was my crush, but Justine was GORGEOUS.

J&J 1986

Justine on Arsenio circa 1992

I wonder if the Family Ties producers gave her grief for that short haircut she had toward the end of the series.

She was involved with Leif Garret? There must be some juicy gossip from that relationship.

I doubt they were staying home on the weekend drinking herbal teas.

Her looks are pretty ravaged, she wasn't a sun worshiper so I'd believe drugs.

Her decline in looks came fairly late. It could be drugs catching up with her, or sun damage, or just genetics.

Am U the only one thought she had a decent singing voice?

Watching the Arsenio interview he congratulated her on hosting SNL. Was she a big star or something?

Yes.

The Valerie Bertinelli of her era.

IIRC after Julia hit with PW, one of the networks ran the movie, billing it as " 'Satisfaction' with Julia Roberts" or something like that. Completely cutting Justine out of the promo.

She pings.

This was her star vehicle that flopped. She wasn't ready to star in a movie, she should've worked her way up taking quality supporting roles. But she probably didn't have her brother's talent anyway.

When Bateman hosted SNL

She is charming in that clip.

Liam Neeson was so fuckable in that film.

R28- Her voice was decent. It’s not a bad movie either.