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Postcards from the Edge

1990

Mike Nichols

Meryl Streep, Shirley MacLaine, Simon Callow, Gene Hackman ...

5.8

2,133

Drama. Comedy Substance-addicted Hollywood actress Suzanne Vale (Meryl Streep) 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 Doris Mann (Shirley MacLaine), 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 finds her mother still treats her like a ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	'"Postcards from the Edge' contains too much good writing and too many good performances to be a failure, but its heart is not in the right place (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Ian Nathan Empire	"Bright and clichéd, the film does indeed resemble a postcard (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"A very old-fashioned and effective Hollywood entertainment (...) There's not much depth here, but Nichols does a fine job"	POS
United States	Hal Hinson The Washington Post	"Nichols is finely attuned to the natural surreality of a movie set, but when he moves away from the show-biz satire and concentrates on the mother-daughter relationship, the movie falter"	NEU

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