Postcards from the Edge

Genre: Comedy

Worldwide gross$39.1M

Substance-addicted Hollywood actress Suzanne Vale is on the skids. After a spell at a detox center her film company insists, as a condition of continuing to employ her, that she live with her mother, Doris Mann, who was once a star and now a champion drinker. Such a set-up is bad news for her as she has struggled for years to get out of Doris' shadow, who still treats her like a child. Despite these problems and further ones involving the men in in her life, she can begin to see the funny side of her situation, and it also starts to occur to her that not only do daughters have mothers, mothers do too.

🏆 Nominated for 2 Oscars. 2 wins & 12 nominations total

Genres

Comedy, Drama

Director

Mike Nichols

Cast

Meryl Streep, Shirley MacLaine, Dennis Quaid

Released

14 September 1990

Runtime

1h 41m

Certificate

R

IMDb rating

6.7 / 10

Votes

20,788

Metascore

71

Rotten Tomatoes

83%

Box office

$39,071,603

Edition

Base