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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.
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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.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Mike Nichols
- 1990-09-14
Sep 12, 1990 · It's here that the movie takes the wrong turn, into a domestic show-biz comedy that plays up the mother-daughter rivalry at the cost of its original subject, drugs in show business.
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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- Mike Nichols
- R
- Meryl Streep
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.
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.
Substance-addicted Hollywood actress, Suzanne Vale is on the skids. After a spell at a detox centre her film company insists as a condition of continuing to employ her that she live with her mother, herself once a star and now a champion drinker.