Postcards From the Edge

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Postcards From the Edge

R

Released Sep 12, 1990

1h 41m

Comedy

Drama

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Hollywood actress Suzanne Vale is on a slippery slope as a recovering addict. On exit from rehab, it is recommended she stay with her mother, who has become a somewhat champion drinker herself. Suzanne therefore struggles to maintain her sobriety and her sanity in the company of Doris.

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Uniting a pair of powerhouse talents with a smart, sharply written script, Postcards from the Edge makes compelling drama out of reality-inspired trauma.

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Martha K. Baker

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Postcards From the Edge is hardly a sob story, and not a "woman's movie" from the '40s. It's very savvy and snotty and a little sexy, too.

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Kathleen Carroll

New York Daily News

With a major assist from [director] Mike Nichols, Fisher has now transformed her novel into a smashingly entertaining movie. Postcards From the Edge is a hilarious, surprisingly poignant comedy about learning to accept one's parents.

Rated: 3.5/4

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Peter Travers

Rolling Stone

Fisher neatly skewers Hollywood pretension. And Nichols enlists a first-rate cast in cameo roles, including Dennis Quaid as an oversexed producer, Gene Hackman as a compassionate director and Richard Dreyfuss as a smitten doctor.

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M.S. Mason

Christian Science Monitor

Where it pleases, Postcards pleases liberally. At least it never, ever resembles a soap opera. And nearly every performance in this picture glitters.

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Michael Sragow

San Francisco Examiner

[Postcards From the Edge] is the kind of Hollywood movie a clef that Hollywood loves. It's morally double-jointed. The film's smug attitudes and in-jokes are symptoms of the Tinseltown insularity the screenplay tries to attack.

Rated: 1/4

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Joe Baltake

Sacramento Bee

Fisher’s deadpan reporting on the Hollywood scene never feels bitter or even cruel. It just has a matter-of-fact malevolence about it. She’s abetted by Shirley MacLaine’s performance, less a homage than a critique of the character she’s playing.

Rated: 4/4

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Chinu D

It’s a really good movie

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Adiya A

The director has once again managed to make a wonderful movie with good people. I liked it very much.

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Bahad j

In my opinion, the movie uses very good camera and audio visual equipment and the crew members and the filmmakers have played their roles very well. I really liked it.

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Bulgantamir B

The acting is so good

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Hollywood actress Suzanne Vale is on a slippery slope as a recovering addict. On exit from rehab, it is recommended she stay with her mother, who has become a somewhat champion drinker herself. Suzanne therefore struggles to maintain her sobriety and her sanity in the company of Doris.

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Geke g

Nostalgic vibes are something else.

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Synopsis

Hollywood actress Suzanne Vale is on a slippery slope as a recovering addict. On exit from rehab, it is recommended she stay with her mother, who has become a somewhat champion drinker herself. Suzanne therefore struggles to maintain her sobriety and her sanity in the company of Doris.

Director: Mike Nichols
Producer: Mike Nichols, John Calley
Screenwriter: Carrie Fisher
Distributor: Columbia Pictures
Production Co: Columbia Pictures Corporation
Rating: R
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 12, 1990, Original
Release Date (Streaming): May 1, 2013
Box Office (Gross USA): $36.9M
Runtime: 1h 41m
Sound Mix: Surround, Stereo

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