Postcards from the Edge

1990

101 min

6.6

Ends at

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, 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 still treats her like a child. Despite these and other problems, Suzanne begins to see the funny side of her situation, and also realises that not only do daughters have mothers—mothers do too.

Budget

$22,000,000

Genre

Comedy, Drama

Director

Mike Nichols

Country

United States of America

Cast & Crew

Meryl Streep

Shirley MacLaine

Dennis Quaid

Gene Hackman

Richard Dreyfuss

Rob Reiner

Mary Wickes

Conrad Bain

Annette Bening

Simon Callow

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Postcards from the Edge

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, 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 still treats her like a child. Despite these and other problems, Suzanne begins to see the funny side of her situation, and also realises that not only do daughters have mothers—mothers do too.

  • Meryl Streep

  • Shirley MacLaine

  • Dennis Quaid

  • Gene Hackman

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