Postcards from the Edge Movie Review 1990

Fisher adapted her best-selling novel, tamed and tempered, for the big screen with a tour-de-force of talent. Streep very fine as a delightfully harried actress struggling with her career, her drug dependence, and her competitive, overwhelming show-biz mother. Autobiographical script is bitingly clever and filled with refreshingly witty dialogue. Lots of cameos by Hollywood's hippest.

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Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 101 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Price of Fame, Showbiz Comedies, Showbiz Dramas, Moms, Behind the Scenes

Screenplay

Carrie Fisher

Cast

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

Cinematography

Michael Ballhaus

Director

Mike Nichols

Music

Shel Silverstein, Carly Simon, Stephen Sondheim, Howard Shore, Paul Shaffer, Gilda Radner

Other

Sam O'Steen

Producer

Columbia Pictures