Movie
Postcards from the Edge
Overview
A substance-addicted actress tries to look on the bright side even as she's forced to move back in with her mother to avoid unemployment.
Details
- Release date
- 1990-09-14
- Runtime
- 101 min
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Columbia Pictures
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Meryl Streep as Suzanne Vale
- Shirley MacLaine as Doris Mann
- Dennis Quaid as Jack Faulkner
- Gene Hackman as Lowell Kolchek
- Richard Dreyfuss as Dr. Frankenthal
- Rob Reiner as Joe Pierce
- Mary Wickes as Grandma
- Conrad Bain as Grandpa
- Annette Bening as Evelyn Ames
- Simon Callow as Simon Asquith
- Gary Morton as Marty Wiener
- CCH Pounder as Julie Marsden
Crew
- Mike Nichols - Director
- Carrie Fisher - Screenplay
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