Postcards from the Edge (1990)
Having a wonderful time, wish I were here.
Starring Meryl Streep, Shirley MacLaine, Dennis Quaid
Directed by Mike Nichols
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 Doris Mann, 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.
Runtime: 101 min.
Rating: 6.6
DVD
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America
Genres: Comedy,Drama
Keywords: drug rehabilitation,hollywood,based on memoir or autobiography,drug addict,actress,mother daughter relationship
Cast
Suzanne Vale
Doris Mann
Jack Faulkner
Lowell Kolchek
Doctor Frankenthal
Joe Pierce
Grandpa
Evelyn Ames
Simon Asquith
Grandma
Neil Bleene
Julie Marsden
Sid Roth
Aretha
Carol
George Lazan
Wardrobe Mistress
Robert Munch
Raoul
Carl
Assistant Director
Marty Wiener
Allen