BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

SanEat A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

Frances Chung Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Isbel A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Syl Academy Award winners, Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLaine play a mother and daughter actress and singers in Hollywood, California. They are loosely based on Carrie Fisher's memoir about her life as the daughter of Debbie Reynolds. The film has great moments with Streep and Maclaine and mother and daughter. The cast is first rate. Mary Wickes who played Grandma was one of Hollywood's greatest character actresses. Conrad Bain played Grandpa. The film is about how Suzanne Vale must live with her mother, Doris Mann, while she is shooting with a film with an all-star cast and directed by Mike Nichols. Gene Hackman played the director. Richard Dreyfuss played the doctor. Carrie Fisher even has a cameo. Annette Bening made her film debut. Dennis Quaid displayed his ability to act with Streep. The film is fine and great to see Meryl Streep sing too. A must for Meryl Streep fans to see and wonder why she's marvelous Meryl Streep.

betty dalton Meryl Streep is like a cameleon. I honestly dont know many other actresses that can act so believable. It is truly as if she becomes the person whose role she is playing. In "Postcards from the Edge" Meryl Streep plays a drug addicted moviestar who is forced into a rehab after an overdose. Will she survive? Will she be able to pick up her life again? That's the story. Sounds dramatic and depressing, doesnt it? But it is one of the funniest and dearest movies there is. "Postcards from the Edge" has got some genuine tender moments that really lift up this film above all the other comedies.Because however heavy the story might sound it is truly a lighthearted comedy with a warm gentle heart.For those who know the following supporting actors will be immediately impressed: Rob Reiner, Gene Hackman, Dennis Quaid and ofcourse Shirley MacClaine who plays an oscar worthy role as an alcoholic mother of Meryl Streep.If you love Meryl Streep then you gotta see this wonderful warm and lovely comedy. Directed by the grandmaster Mike Nichols who just cant do anything wrong, on the contrary this man keeps on delivering masterpiece after masterpiece. And he did it again with "Postcards from the Edge"!

krocheav Seems 'Postcards' has elements of real life and fiction that some have taken seriously. Not sure it could be said that Fisher truly rose to respected movie star prominence - seems perhaps writing was her forte (or perhaps sadly, as this film suggests it was the addictions that got in the way). 'Postcards' also has the opportunity to say something profound about several very serious human afflictions (especially in Hollywood) but remains instead happy to sell itself off mostly as suss humor.Appeares Carrie's mother Debbie Reynolds wanted to play the mother role but director Mike Nichols said she wouldn't be right for the part. So much for some of those suggestions about this being based on certain family facts. My guess is it might have been easier to write about part of the life you're living than the one you have to create from scratch. The movie makes some good statements about the mirage that is movie making and has numerous terrific performances, both acting and musically. Then there's also that treating doctor who asks to take the actress out for a date...to the movies! It's a grim story of self destruction wanting to be taken as 'fun'.

Ed Uyeshima Carrie Fisher's bracingly candid and acerbically amusing commentary is definitely worth a listen when you watch this scabrous 1990 comedy, especially since she wrote the screenplay based on her first novel, which is turn, was based on her life as a drug-addicted movie actress who happens to the daughter of Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher. With the self-assured Mike Nichols at the helm, the picture is glossy and often smug in its insider's look of Hollywood, but it also has an emotionally resonant quality thanks mainly to the shrewdly observant interplay between Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLaine as mother and daughter. Streep plays Suzanne Vale, an actress successful enough to star in a cheesy action flick but spiraling out of control with her drug habit. In fact, she barely finishes a film for veteran director Lowell Korshack (an initially snappish Gene Hackman) who reads her the riot act on the set about her budget-escalating addiction.In the midst of a bleary-eyed one-night-stand, Suzanne becomes comatose from an overdose and is taken to the hospital where she gets her stomach pumped by a smitten doctor (a puppyish Richard Dreyfuss). She recovers and can work on her next picture only if she will live with her movie star mother Doris Mann to appease the insurance company. While the rest of the movie focuses on Suzanne's bumpy road toward recovery, the story really takes flight when it zeroes in on the prickly, dysfunctional relationship she has with Doris, a larger-than-life personality who means well as a mother but can't help being judgmental and competitive. Whether showing off her gams on a piano belting Sondheim's "I'm Still Here" or revealing her pathetically shorn head after an auto collision, MacLaine is spot-on in the role, probably the best among her latter-day performances after Aurora Greenway in "Terms of Endearment".Liberated from her parade of accents and period costumes, Streep seems at first too accomplished to be playing a second-rate actress, but she makes the bedraggled Suzanne likeably flawed. She also shows off an impressive singing voice with a couple of country-western numbers. Beyond Hackman and Dreyfuss, Dennis Quaid effectively plays an errant lover with smarmy panache, and there are nice near-cameos from Annette Bening as a flaky actress, Gary Morton as Suzanne's agent, Robin Bartlett as Suzanne's sardonic rehab roommate, CCH Pounder as an unctuous rehab counselor and Simon Callow as a two-faced director. In the studio scenes, Rob Reiner, Oliver Platt, Michael Ontkean and J.D. Souther provide even smaller bits. I just wish Fisher could have explored Suzanne's recovery beyond the fatherly pep talk from Korshack and the final moment of vulnerability from Doris. Beyond Fisher's commentary, the 2001 DVD contains partial filmographies for the principal players and several unrelated trailers.