Postcards from the Edge poster
Screenplay Carrie Fisher
Director Mike Nichols

Postcards from the Edge

Tagline: Having a wonderful time, wish I were here.

Release Date: 1990-09-14

Duration: 101 minutes

Synopsis

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.

Casting

  • Gene Hackman
    Lowell Kolchek
  • Meryl Streep
    Suzanne Vale
  • Oliver Platt
    Neil Bleene
  • Annette Bening
    Evelyn Ames
  • Dennis Quaid
    Jack Faulkner
  • Richard Dreyfuss
    Doctor Frankenthal
  • Shirley MacLaine
    Doris Mann
  • Michael Ontkean
    Robert Munch
  • Robin Bartlett
    Aretha
  • Rob Reiner
    Joe Pierce