Postcards from the Edge

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Postcards from the Edge ★★★½ 1990 (R)

Fisher adapted her bestselling novel, tamed and tempered, for the big screen with a tourdeforce of talent. Streep very fine as a delightfully harried actress struggling with her career, her drug dependence, and her competitive, overwhelming showbiz mother. Autobiographical script is bitingly clever and filled with refreshingly witty dialogue. Lots of cameos by Hollywood's hippest. 101m/C VHS, DVD . Meryl Streep, Shirley MacLaine, Dennis Quaid, Gene Hackman, Richard Dreyfuss, Rob Reiner, Mary Wickes, Conrad Bain, Annette Bening, Michael Ontkean, Dana Ivey, Robin Bartlett, Anthony Heald, Oliver Platt, CCH Pounder; D: Mike Nichols; W: Carrie Fisher; C: Michael Ballhaus; M: Shel Silverstein, Carly Simon, Stephen Sondheim, Howard Shore, Paul Shaffer, Gilda Radner.

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