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Postcards from the Edge
A substance-addicted actress tries to look on the bright side even as she's forced to move back in with her mother to avoid unemployment.
1990 · Directed by Mike Nichols · 101 min · Comedy · Drama · 10 frames
Tagline
Having a wonderful time, wish I were here.
Crew
- Screenplay: Carrie Fisher
- Cinematography: Michael Ballhaus
- Edited by: Sam O'Steen
- Music: Carly Simon
- Production design: Patrizia von Brandenstein
- Produced by: John Calley, Mike Nichols
Cast
- Meryl Streep as Suzanne Vale
- Shirley MacLaine as Doris Mann
- Dennis Quaid as Jack Faulkner
- Gene Hackman as Lowell Kolchek
- Richard Dreyfuss as Dr. Frankenthal
- Rob Reiner as Joe Pierce
- Mary Wickes as Grandma
- Conrad Bain as Grandpa
- Annette Bening as Evelyn Ames
- Simon Callow as Simon Asquith
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Columbia Pictures
- Budget: $22,000,000
- Box office: $39,071,603
- Themes: drug addiction, dark comedy, drug rehabilitation, hollywood, based on memoir or autobiography, mother daughter relationship
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