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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)
Bright Lights, Big City. Bright Lights, Big City is a novel by American author Jay McInerney, published by Vintage Books on August 12, 1984. It is written about a character's time spent caught up in, and notably escaping from, the early 1980s New York City fast lane. The novel is written in the second person, an unusual narrative method in ...
- Jay McInerney
- United States
- 1984
- August 12, 1984
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
- 2 min
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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 ...
- James Bridges
Bright Lights, Big City ★★ 1988 (R) Based on Jay McInerney's popular novel, Fox plays a contemporary yuppie working in Manhattan as a magazine journalist. As his world begins to fall apart, he embarks on an endless cycle of drugs and nightlife. Fox is poorly cast, and his character is hard to care for as he becomes more and more dissolute.
Summaries. 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. 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 ...
