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Postcards from the Edge

  • September 1990
  • 1hr

    41mins

  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • Directed by

    Mike Nichols,

    Robert Greenhut,

    Neil Machlis,

    Starring

    Meryl Streep,

    Shirley MacLaine,

    Dennis Quaid,

    Gene Hackman

    ...

    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.