Product: Postcards from the Edge [VHS] (1990)
Rating: 5.0
Craig Lewis
Anyone who has dealt with any substance escapism-or overbearing mothers-need to revisit this movie. Just try to catch all the humorous interactions you might not have caught the first time between stars McClain and Streep as a famous aging movie star who drinks and her actress daughter dealing with drug abuse. Based on Carrie Fisher's novel, if "rationalization is part of the addiction" then watching McClain ("Now I just drink I like an Irish Person" and Streep ("Well, the behavior may have been suicidal...but I am not!) have great one liners supporting this notion. Don't all of us one day or another think Streep's line "Well...I'm glad I've gotten sober so that I am hyper-concious for this series of humiliations!" Mike Nichols says that he shoots every scene by asking himself "How does it really happen??" With cameos by Rob Riener, Richard Dreyfuss and Gene Hackman you get some of the best films moments acteds by pros; supporting roles taken by future stars Oliver Platt and Annette Bening are also funny but brief.