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Postcards From the Edge

Rating:R
Genre:Comedy
Release Date:January 1, 1990
Running time:101 minutes
Cast:Meryl Streep, Shirley MacLaine, Dennis Quaid, Gene Hackman, Richard Dreyfuss
Director:Mike Nichols
Producer:John Calley, Mike Nichols
Writer:Carrie Fisher
Distributor:Columbia Pictures Corporation

Description: Based on Carrie Fisher's roman a clef, the story concerns a young actress who has recently gone through drug rehabilitation, and is trying to cope with not only the Hollywood scene but her own mother's, a former musical comedy star of the 50s and 60s, more socially acceptable alcoholism.

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