Supelice Dreadfully Boring

CommentsXp Best movie ever!

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Ketrivie It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

bkoganbing Although the natural assumption is that when Carrie Fisher wrote her novel Postcards From The Edge she took her own story and that of her mother Debbie Reynolds. I'm sure a great deal of that story got into Fisher's work, but God only knows as a Hollywood kid she had plenty of other examples and role models to choose from. For myself I saw a bit of Joan and Christina Crawford there as well.One of Meryl Streep's numerous Oscar nominations is for Postcards From The Edge and she's a working actress and performer freshly out of a drug rehab and she returns to the house of her mother Shirley MacLaine who is a former film queen whose day is passed, but still takes on the airs of a star. Once a star always a star.These two have generational and personal issues. They can see each other's faults quite clearly, but can't see themselves. That's a bad combination, it leads to a lot of heartache with men and with substances.MacLaine and Streep play beautifully off each other, it's unfortunate that Streep got the Best Actress nomination and MacLaine received none. These are professionals working in joyous tandem.A lot of colleagues like Gene Hackman, Richard Dreyfuss and others worked in small parts probably because they wanted to be associated with this project for one reason or another. My favorite was Mary Wickes playing MacLaine's small town hick mother. In just one hospital scene Wickes may have given her best performance since the put upon nurse in The Man Who Came To Dinner. A lot of territory between those two roles.Besides Streep's nomination Postcards From The Edge received a nomination for Best Song for I'm Checking Out. Streep delivers it in the best Patsy Cline type manner in the final scene. That woman has a lot of country in her.

Maddyclassicfilms Postcards From The Edge is directed by Mike Nichols,has a screenplay by Carrie Fisher based on her book and stars Meryl Streep, Shirley MacLaine, Gene Hackman, Dennis Quaid and Mary Wicke's.The film is based Carrie Fisher's life and her relationship with her mother Debbie Reynolds.It's a good mix of comedy and sadness with powerful performances especially from Meryl as the insecure actress.Suzanne Vale(Meryl Streep)is one of Hollywoods biggest stars and is on top of the world,there is a snag though she has a drug problem.After taking an overdose her boyfriend Jack Faulkner(Dennis Quaid)rushes her to hospital where her stomach is pumped by Dr Frankenthal(Richard Dreyfuss)who might just be the man she is meant to be in love with.She goes through rehab and gets clean,the root of her addiction lies with her overbearing and demanding mother Doris Mann(Shirley MacLaine).Doris has made her life hell and although she loves her she just can't stop picking at her and driving her further away.The film revolves around Suzanne's struggle to stay off drugs and try and get into a better place emotionally.Her only true friend in all of this is her favourite director Lowell Kolcheck(Gene Hackman)although a bit severe at times he teaches her to be stronger and stand up to her mother and is there when she needs a shoulder to cry on.Deeply moving and featuring some superb performances, Postcards From The Edge is a wonderful film.Meryl also gets to prove her singing skills here and they are very good.

jzappa Postcards From the Edge could have been a great character piece, considering its credentials. However, Mike Nichols went through a period of struggle with his work during the 1980s. His films lacked decent pace and proportionate screen time for all of its characters and subject matter and thus lacked focus. Postcards has this problem. It ends before you know it, it wraps up like it's tired and wants to go to bed, and the conflict has a short burst of presence till it completely diffuses.However, this film has an incredibly high point of enjoyment to level it off. This would be the appearance of a young and beautiful Meryl Streep in a snug police suit. Her curves, her maternal hips, her thighs, her overall thin yet plush softness radiates sensuality.As for her performance, she is of course very enthralling in her depiction of Carrie Fisher's depiction of Carrie Fisher. It's always fascinating to see how comfortable she is with repressing herself just enough to ooze those indescribable facial and tonal expressions that are trademark Meryl.

Isaac5855 POTCARDS FROM THE EDGE is a glittering all-star comedy based on the best selling book by Carrie Fisher that chronicles a particular difficult period in Fisher's life and her relationship with mom Debbie Reynolds. In this fictionalized version of the events in Fisher's life, Meryl Streep plays Suzanne, an actress who has just been released from rehab on the condition that she be under the custody and roof of her mother, a former actress (Shirley MacLaine) and what happens when she finally gets her first chance to work after coming out of rehab. This story is smart and funny and features a wonderful cast including Dennis Quaid, Gene Hackman, Richard Dreyfuss,Rob Reiner,Conrad Bain, Mary Wickes, Annette Bening, Gary Morton, and CCH Pounder, but it is really the amazing performances by Streep and MacLaine that make this movie work. Both ladies are also given opportunities to sing and make the most of them. The song "I"m Checkin' Out" which Meryl sings at the end of the movie, received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Song as did Streep for Best Actress.