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Postcards from the Edge
- Director: Mike Nichols
- Writer: Carrie Fisher
- Producer: John Calley; Robert Greenhut
CGiii Comment
Surprisingly candid.
Fisher has a talent - possibly, mentored by Nichols?!?
Not bad at all.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
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.
Cast & Characters
Meryl Streep as Suzanne Vale;
Shirley MacLaine as Doris Mann;
Dennis Quaid as Jack Faulkner;
Gene Hackman as Lowell Kolchek;
Richard Dreyfuss as Doctor Frankenthal;
Rob Reiner as Joe Pierce;
Mary Wickes as Grandma;
Conrad Bain as Grandpa;
Annette Bening as Evelyn Ames;
Simon Callow as Simon Asquith;
Gary Morton as Marty Wiener;
CCH Pounder as Julie Marsden;
Sidney Armus as Sid Roth;
Robin Bartlett as Aretha;
Barbara Garrick as Carol