Postcards from the Edge

Movie

Comedy

Drama

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.

Date: 09/14/1990

Rating: 6.6

Cast: Meryl Streep, Shirley MacLaine, Dennis Quaid, Gene Hackman, Richard Dreyfuss, Rob Reiner, Mary Wickes, Conrad Bain, Annette Bening, Simon Callow, Gary Morton, CCH Pounder, Sidney Armus, Robin Bartlett, Barbara Garrick, Anthony Heald, Dana Ivey, Oliver Platt, Michael Ontkean, Pepe Serna, Mark Lowenthal, Michael Byers, JD Souther, George D. Wallace, Peter Onorati, J. Roy Helland, Douglas Roberts, Michael Haley, Kathleen Gray, Gloria Crayton, Gary Matanky, Marcelo Tubert, John Verea, René Assa, Natalija Nogulich, Susan Forristal, Evelina Fernández, Neil Machlis, Gary Jones, Jane Galloway, Steven Brill, Jason Tomlins, Shelley Kirk, Jessica Z. Diamond, Scott Frankel, Sheridan Leatherbury, Ken Gutstein, James Deeth, Robert Marshall, Jim Cuddy, Greg Keelor, Bazil Donovan, Mark French, Bob Wiseman, Jorga Caye, Stanley DeSantis, Anthony DeStefanis, Bob Harks, Conrad Hurtt, Carrie Jachnuk, Beau Lotterman, Fred Moon, Danny Nero, Ted Raimi, Raymond Storti

Meryl Streep