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Box office. $16 million. Bright Lights, Big City is a 1988 American tragic drama film directed by James Bridges, starring Michael J. Fox, Kiefer Sutherland, Phoebe Cates, Dianne Wiest and Jason Robards, and based on the novel by Jay McInerney, who also wrote the screenplay. It was the last film directed by Bridges, who died in 1993.
- $25 million
- April 1, 1988 (United States)
Apr 1, 1988 · Bright Lights, Big City: Directed by James Bridges. With Michael J. Fox, Kiefer Sutherland, Phoebe Cates, Swoosie Kurtz. A disillusioned young writer living in New York City turns to drugs and drinking to block out the memories of his dead mother and estranged wife.
- James Bridges
- 55
- 2 min
Rated: 1/4 • Nov 9, 2008. In this adaptation of Jay McInerney's novel, Jamie Conway (Michael J. Fox) moves from small-town Kansas to New York City to work at a magazine. However, a number of ...
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- James Bridges
- R
- Michael J. Fox
Maybe she can help him, maybe not. The movie ends with Jamie staggering out into the bright dawn of a new day and, in a scene a little too contrived for my taste, trading his dark glasses for a loaf of bread. "Bright Lights, Big City" is a "Lost Weekend" for the 1980s, a chronicle of wasted days and misplaced nights.
Jamie Conway (Michael J. Fox) is an aspiring writer and yuppie living in New York City who seeks oblivion in cocaine and the glittery nightclub scene as his life falls apart (his wife leaves him, his mother dies, etc.). With his hard-partying friend Tad Allagash (Kiefer Sutherland) tagging along with him during their nights out, Jamie finds it ...
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Apr 1, 1988 · Swoosie Kurtz, as a co-worker, has the thankless job of sitting by in a worried, maternal manner while Mr. Fox recites an endless chunk of exposition. And Phoebe Cates is too giddy for the ...
