Postcards from the Edge (1990)

09/14/1990 (US) • 1h 41m

Comedy, Drama

Having a wonderful time, wish I were here.

Overview

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.

Top Billed Cast

Meryl Streep

Suzanne Vale

Dennis Quaid

Jack Faulkner

Gene Hackman

Lowell Kolchek

Richard Dreyfuss

Dr. Frankenthal

Rob Reiner

Joe Pierce

Annette Bening

Evelyn Ames


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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$22,000,000.00

Revenue

$39,071,603.00

Keywords

drug addiction

drug rehabilitation

hollywood

based on memoir or autobiography

mother daughter relationship

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