Postcards from the Edge
1990 · Movie · 106 min. · United States
Substance-addicted Hollywood actress Suzanne Vale (Meryl Streep) 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 Doris Mann (Shirley MacLaine), herself once a star and now a champion drinker. Such a set-up is bad news for Suzanne who has struggled for years to get out of her mother's shadow, and who finds her mother still treats her like a child. Despite these problems - and further ones to do with the men in in her life - Suzanne can begin to see the funny side of her situation, and it also starts to occur to her that not only do daughters have mothers, mothers do too.
Direction Mike Nichols
Cast Meryl Streep · Shirley MacLaine · Simon Callow · Gene Hackman · Dennis Quaid · Richard Dreyfuss · Oliver Platt · Rob Reiner · CCH Pounder · Annette Bening · Gary Morton · Mary Wickes
Soundtrack Carly Simon
Screenplay Carrie Fisher
Cinematography Michael Ballhaus
Original title Postcards from the Edge
5.8
2K votes (FilmAffinity)
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