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Postcards from the Edge

  • September 14, 1990
  • 101 min.
  • Comedy, Drama
  • United States
Substance-addicted Hollywood actress, Suzanne Vale is on the skids. After a spell at a detox centre her film company insists as a condition of continuing to employ her that she live with her mother, herself once a star and now a champion drinker. Such a set-up is bad news for Suzanne who has struggled for years to get out of her mother's shadow, and who still treats her like a child. Despite these and other problems, Suzanne begins to see the funny side of her situation, and also realises that not only do daughters have mothers—mothers do too.

Original title: Postcards from the Edge

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Academy Awards #63 - 1991

Award People Status
Best Actress in a Leading Role Meryl Streep
Best Original Song Shel Silverstein - "I'm Checkin' Out"

British Academy Film Awards #44 - 1991

Award People Status
Best Actress in a Leading Role Shirley MacLaine
Best Adapted Screenplay Carrie Fisher
Best Original Score Carly Simon

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