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Postcards from the Edge
Directed by
Mike Nichols
R
1990
1h 41m
Drama
,
Comedy
6.7
83%
67%
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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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Cast of Postcards from the Edge
Meryl Streep
Suzanne Vale
Shirley MacLaine
Doris Mann
Dennis Quaid
Jack Faulkner
Gene Hackman
Lowell Kolchek
Richard Dreyfuss
Dr. Frankenthal
Rob Reiner
Joe Pierce
Mary Wickes
Grandma
Conrad Bain
Grandpa
Annette Bening
Evelyn Ames
Simon Callow
Simon Asquith
Gary Morton
Marty Wiener
CCH Pounder
Julie Marsden
Sidney Armus
Sid Roth
Robin Bartlett
Aretha
Barbara Garrick
Carol
Anthony Heald
George Lazan
Dana Ivey
Wardrobe Mistress
Oliver Platt
Neil Bleene
Michael Ontkean
Robert Munch
Pepe Serna
Raoul
Mark Lowenthal
Bart
Michael Byers
Allen
JD Souther
Ted
George D. Wallace
Carl
Peter Onorati
Cameraman
J. Roy Helland
Make-up Man
Douglas Roberts
Soundman
Michael Haley
Assistant Director
Kathleen Gray
Cindy
Gloria Crayton
Maid at Party
Gary Matanky
Sound Editor
Marcelo Tubert
Sound Editor
John Verea
Young Intern
René Assa
Passport Official
Natalija Nogulich
Friend at Airport
Susan Forristal
Friend at Airport
Evelina Fernández
Airline Employee
Neil Machlis
Rob Sonnenfeld
Gary Jones
Fan at Party
Jane Galloway
Nurse
Steven Brill
Assistant Director
Jason Tomlins
Officer
Shelley Kirk
First Lady
Jessica Z. Diamond
Script Supervisor
Scott Frankel
Pianist at Party
Sheridan Leatherbury
Stand-In
Ken Gutstein
Director of Photography
James Deeth
Helicopter Pilot
Robert Marshall
Helicopter Pilot
Jim Cuddy
Blue Rodeo Band
Greg Keelor
Blue Rodeo Band
Bazil Donovan
Blue Rodeo Band
Mark French
Blue Rodeo Band
Bob Wiseman
Blue Rodeo Band
Jorga Caye
Western Bar Patron (uncredited)
Stanley DeSantis
Crew Member (uncredited)
Anthony DeStefanis
Savona (uncredited)
Bob Harks
Party Guest (uncredited)
Conrad Hurtt
Cowperson (uncredited)
Carrie Jachnuk
Fan at Party (uncredited)
Beau Lotterman
Soundman (uncredited)
Fred Moon
Air Plane Passenger (uncredited)
Danny Nero
Party Guest (uncredited)
Ted Raimi
Emergency Room Attendant (uncredited)
Raymond Storti
Stagehand (uncredited)
Postcards from the Edge Ratings & Reviews
Movie Mom
Nell Minow
Weak script but brilliant performances and moments of heart-twisting poignance and insight.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
There's not much depth here, but Nichols does a fine job with the surface effects, and the wisecracks keep coming.
TIME Magazine
Richard Corliss
In this era of postverbal cinema, Postcards proves that movie dialogue can still carry the sting, heft and meaning of the finest old romantic comedy.
Variety
Variety Staff
Packs a fair amount of emotional wallop in its dark-hued comic take on a chemically dependent Hollywood mother and daughter.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Martha K. Baker
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.
Chicago Tribune
Dave Kehr
Postcards From the Edge is alive only when it's being as mean and vicious as its little heart can be, which is more than often enough.
Detroit Free Press
Kathy Huffhines
My own postcards to Streep, MacLaine and Fisher would read: Good going, ladies. Your bleached-Techni-color weather is beautiful in a freaky California kinda way. Wish you'd be there on next January's Oscar nomination list.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Desmond Ryan
Mike Nichols and Carrie Fisher have written a vitriolically funny poison-pen letter to Hollywood's pretensions and a refreshingly unsentimental billet-doux to the tangled and unending frictions between mothers and daughters.
Newsday
Mike McGrady
Writer Carrie Fisher and director Mike Nichols have conspired to keep the story crackling; and Nichols has never directed with greater economy, moving into and out of situations rapidly, using drama to set off humor the way velvet sets off jewelry.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
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.
Orlando Sentinel
Jay Boyar
Streep and MacLaine don't look much like relatives, but they certainly look like movie stars, and that's what's most important in the variety-show business.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Jeff Strickler
If you're looking for serious insight into the heroine's battles with drug addiction and her actress mother, you're not going to find it here. [But] Meryl Streep as the daughter and Shirley MacLaine as the mother offer a one-two punch of pure delight.
Los Angeles Times
Sheila Benson
Wickedly funny backstage snapshots of moviemaking... can't hide [the film's] emotional starvation. While we chortle at the one-liners--and Streep's running, grumbling delivery of them -- the real work seems to happen too fast and offscreen.
New York Daily News
Kathleen Carroll
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.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Eleanor Ringel Cater
Postcards From the Edge has its act together from the very first frame. It's enough to restore your faith in good old glossy Hollywood products.
Arizona Republic
Bob Fenster
Postcards From the Edge is a funny movie, not because of the women's desperate situations, but because of the sarcastic reactions the women have to their dilemmas.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Michael H. Price
The Streep-MacLaine combo allows an intimate look at an embattled parent-child relationship. Director Nichols pushes the teaming more toward ribald wit than soap opera, and the stars go along wholeheartedly with the game.
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
With its wry take on the manic triviality of the industry, it's not only the most sparklingly jaundiced showbiz entertainment since All About Eve. It's also the gutsiest mother-daughter story, since Terms of Endearment.
New York Magazine/Vulture
David Denby
Postcards is soft and slovenly, and its weary sophistication finally collapses into soap opera.
New York Times
Vincent Canby
Nobody is going to spend much time worrying about what happens next in Postcards From the Edge, at least in part because what's going on at any given minute is so rich.
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