Postcards from the Edge (1990) 



Genre:Comedy
Released: January 1, 1990
Director:Mike Nichols
Distributor:Columbia Pictures Corporation
 
Starring:
Meryl Streep, Shirley MacLaine, Dennis Quaid, Gene Hackman
 
Synopsis
Mike Nichols lends some comic structure to Carrie Fisher's best-selling
confessional novel concerning a woman's struggles with drug addiction
and mother-daughter rivalry (subjects Fisher admits to understanding all
too well). Meryl Streep, in her most full-blown comic performance up to
that point, plays Suzanne Vale, a popular movie actress well on her way
to a Hollywood crack-up. Suzanne suffers from blackouts and memory
lapses, and awakens in the beds of men she doesn't remember; she is a
barely-functioning wreck on the set of her latest movie. When a coke dealer
who delivers stops by her dressing room between takes, she swiftly finds
herself being rushed to the hospital, suffering the effects of a narcotics bender.
While in detox, Suzanne attempts to piece her life and career back together,
but her confidence is shattered when her mother arrives at the rehab clinic
-Doris Mann, a famed film icon from the 1950s and 1960s (Shirley MacLaine).
Doris is soon soaking up the dulation and applause of Suzanne's fellow recovering
drug addicts. Upon Suzanne's release, she must compete with her mother for
attention and fame as she tries to walk a thin line as a recovering drug abuser.
~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide


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