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.

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

Reviews

CinemaSerf

Despite there only being fifteen years between them, I actually thought that Shirley MacLaine and Meryl Streep made the mother/daughter thing work quite well here. The former, "Doris", is a wealthy and accomplished singer; the latter, "Suzanne", is a successful actress with dependency issues. Indeed...

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