Bright Lights, Big City Movie Review 1988

Based on Jay McInerney's popular novel, Fox plays a contemporary yuppie working in Manhattan as a magazine journalist. As his world begins to fall apart, he embarks on an endless cycle of drugs and nightlife. Fox is poorly cast, and his character is hard to care for as he becomes more and more dissolute. Although McInerney wrote his own screenplay, the intellectual abstractness of the novel can't be captured on film.

Distribution

MGM Home Entertainment, 2500 Broadway, Santa Monica, CA 90404-6061, Phone: (310)449-3000, Fax: (310)449-3100, URL: http://www.mgmhomevideo.com, Remarks: Does not handle retail queries from consumers; contact your local video distributor.

Available on VHS
Running time 110 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Yuppie Nightmares, New York, New York, Front Page

Cast

David Warrilow, Sam Robards, Kelly Lynch, Annabelle Gurwitch, Maria Pitillo, David Hyde Pierce, Jessica Lundy, Michael J. Fox, Kiefer Sutherland, Phoebe Cates, Frances Sternhagen, Swoosie Kurtz, Tracy Pollan, Jason Robards, John Houseman, Dianne Wiest, Charlie Schlatter, William Hickey

Cinematography

Gordon Willis

Director

James Bridges

Producer

Sydney Pollack, MGM Home Entertainment