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Actors: Meryl Streep, Shirley MacLaine, Dennis Quaid, Gene Hackman, Richard Dreyfuss, Annette Bening, Rob Reiner
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Postcards from the Edge |
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POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE was based on Carrie Fisher's novel and directed by Mike Nichols in 1990.
Suzanne Vale (Streep) is a young actress who must go through drug rehabilitation after an overdose. A few months later, she starts a new low-budget movie and has now to cope every night with her own mother, Doris Mann (MacLaine), who was assigned by the insurance company of the movie to watch over Suzanne and held responsible for her daughter's acts. Doris was an Hollywood star in the 50's, acting in a lot of musicals and having a tremendous ego. So Suzanne, apart of trying not to do drugs again, must compete each day with her mother for attention because the old star, though loving her only child, constantly changes the subject to herself when both are in society.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Postcards from the Edge |
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1980's-1999
Family, struggling with
Yes
Struggle with:
- Mother
Family, caring for sick?
Yes
Who is sick?
- Daughter
because he/she is
- alcoholic/druggie
Inner struggle or disability
Yes
Druggie/Wino problems?
- drugs
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- actor
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric:
Yes
Hair color?
- blonde
Hair type
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn straight
Body type
- (woman) average
Events of movie makes character more...
- tougher
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Female
Age:
- 60's-90's
Profession/status:
- actor
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 80%
Hair color
- red
Hair type
- (woman) short/butch/lez
Body type
- (woman) average
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- druggie/wino disease
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- California
City?
Yes
City:
- Los Angeles
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Movie makes you feel...
- very happy
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
Any profanity?
- Some foul language
If lots of song/dance...
- lot of singing
If soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Country/Western
Is this movie based on a
- book
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