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Postcards from the Edge is a 1990 American comedy-drama film directed by Mike Nichols. The screenplay by Carrie Fisher is based on her 1987 semi-autobiographical novel of the same title. The film stars Meryl Streep, Shirley MacLaine, and Dennis Quaid.
Sep 14, 1990 · Postcards from the Edge: Directed by Mike Nichols. With Meryl Streep, Shirley MacLaine, Dennis Quaid, Gene Hackman. A substance-addicted actress tries to look on the bright side even as she is forced to move back in with her mother to avoid unemployment.
Postcards from the Edge is a semi-autobiographical novel by Carrie Fisher, first published in 1987. [1] It was later adapted by Fisher herself into a motion picture of the same name, which was directed by Mike Nichols and released by Columbia Pictures in 1990.
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Uniting a pair of powerhouse talents with a smart, sharply written script, Postcards from the Edge makes compelling drama out of reality-inspired trauma. Read Critics Reviews
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Sep 12, 1990 · Postcards From The Edge. Roger Ebert September 12, 1990. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. The practicing alcoholic is familiar with a gnawing feeling in the pit of the stomach - the guilt at letting other people down, the remorse at letting himself down.
Substance-addicted Hollywood actress Suzanne Vale is on the skids. After a spell at a detox center her film company insists, as a condition of continuing to employ her, that she live with her mother, Doris Mann, who was once a star and now a champion drinker.
Postcards From The Edge. Fresh out of rehab, a troubled actress (Meryl Streep) reluctantly moves in with her movie-star mother (Shirley MacLaine) who will supervise her for the duration of her next movie shoot. Forced together, the two re-establish their fractured relationship. 1,995 IMDb 6.7 1 h 41 min 1990. X-Ray R.
Sep 12, 1990 · Mike Nichols' film of Carrie Fisher's novel Postcards from the edge packs a fair amount of emotional wallop in its dark-hued comic take on a chemically dependent Hollywood mother and daughter (Shirley MacLaine and Meryl Streep). Read More.
Meryl Streep, Shirley MacLaine, Gene Hackman, Dennis Quaid and Richard Dreyfuss star in Mike Nichols' hilarious blockbuster film about a very real mother-daughter relationship set against the backdrop of today's Hollywood. Based on Carrie Fisher's best-selling novel. Comedy 1990 1 hr 41 min. 83%.