Continuing in the dark comedy vein she began in SHE DEVIL, Streep, as actress Suzanne Vale, starts at rock bottom. And Streep and MacLaine make a touching pair of embattled misfits. She declines, telling him she's not ready to date yet. entertainer-mom, Doris (MacLaine playing Debbie Reynolds), the too-obvious cause of Suzanne's problems. When she overdoses on sedatives while in bed with Jack Falkner (Quaid), the womanizing producer anonymously wheels her into a hospital emergency room. Continuing in the dark...read more, Adapted by Fisher from her first novel, POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE is yet further proof that Hollywood makes its best films about what it knows best--making films in Hollywood. Suzanne goes to work on a schlocky new movie and dates a producer (Dennis Quaid) who’s a lying dog. Upon completing her clinical rehab, Suzanne finds she is only able to find work on a low-budget cop movie. Working on a film, Suzanne is so addled by a cocaine habit that her director, Lowell (Hackman), must threaten her life just to get her, focused. She makes the character’s flutteriness at once poignant and immensely attractive, creating a new screen type: a soulful ditz. Meryl Streep has finally done it! [7], Vincent Canby of The New York Times said the film "seems to have been a terrifically genial collaboration between the writer and the director, Miss Fisher's tale of odd-ball woe being perfect material for Mr. Nichols's particular ability to discover the humane sensibility within the absurd. "[3], Nichols began pre-production in New York, where he assembled a group of actors to run lines from the script in order to perfect it. This leads to an argument between the two women, and Suzanne storms out to go to a looping session. "[3] In the DVD commentary she notes that her mother wanted to portray Doris but Nichols cast Shirley MacLaine instead. It's easier for them to think I have no imagination for language, just a tape recorder with endless batteries. The film opened in 1,013 theaters in the United States on September 14, 1990 and grossed $7,871,856 on its opening weekend, ranking #1 at the box office. Fisher said in the DVD commentary that Jerry Orbach filmed a scene as Suzanne's father, which was later cut. It's just that his life wasn't so well known. Producer Jack Faulkner (Dennis Quaid) runs into Suzanne on the set and reveals that he is the one who drove her to the hospital during her last overdose, and the two kiss. Like my father, before me, I am an American Nomad. Fisher did the screenplay adaptation herself (even though most of the story isn’t actually taken from the book), and there’s an enticing springiness to her writing. Entertainment Weekly is a registered trademark of Meredith Corporation All Rights Reserved. The film suggests that sedation is an almost reasonable response to such a crazy life. Looking and feeling better, Doris musters her courage and faces the media waiting for her. Carrie Fisher’s one-liners are free of the brassy, New York-style clatter that typifies the work of Neil Simon and, to a lesser extent, Nora Ephron. Postcards from the Edge is a 1990 American comedy-drama film directed by Mike Nichols. "[9], Hal Hinson of The Washington Post said, "Meryl Streep gives the most fully articulated comic performance of her career, the one she's always hinted at and made us hope for." Paramount's 'Ghost' is in second place on $5.8 million in sales", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Postcards_from_the_Edge_(film)&oldid=984158015, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 18 October 2020, at 15:04. He felt the film's earlier section was "the movie's best, primarily because Nichols is so focused on Streep. Other songs performed in the film include "I'm Still Here" (sung by MacLaine) and "You Don't Know Me" (sung by Streep). Still dressed in the costume she wears as a uniformed cop in the schlock movie, Suzanne drives to Jack's house and confronts him. But while POSTCARDS is entertainingly observant of the filmmaking scene, too much time is taken up with the cliched, mother-daughter drama at the film's core. Suzanne rushes to her hospital bedside where the two have a heart-to-heart talk while Suzanne fixes her mother's makeup and arranges a scarf on her head to conceal the fact she bloodied her wig in the accident. Watch Postcards From The Edge movie trailer and get the latest cast info, photos, movie review and more on TVGuide.com. There the paternalistic director Lowell Kolchek (Gene Hackman) tells her he has more work for her as long as she can remain clean and sober. [4], Responding to questions about how closely the film's Suzanne/Doris relationship parallels her relationship with her mother, Debbie Reynolds, Carrie Fisher stated "I wrote about a mother actress and a daughter actress. During the course of a passionate first date, he professes intense and eternal love for her and she believes every word is true. A substance-addicted actress tries to look on the bright side even as she is forced to move back in with her mother to avoid unemployment.
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