Postcards from the Edge

Name: Postcards from the Edge
Director: Mike Nichols
Released: 1990
Duration: 101 min
Rating: 6.7
Cast: Meryl Streep, Shirley MacLaine, Dennis Quaid, Gene Hackman, Richard Dreyfuss

1990 · 101 MIN · IMDB 6.7 · 20,295 VOTES · DIR. Mike Nichols

Overview

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.

Dialogue Timeline — 1,396 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:00:52 -Do you know where you're going? -This is it.

00:04:54 l'll do a better job. You're so out of it, you'd botch that up.

00:11:12 Why can't l remember anything?

00:14:55 -Nice meeting you. -Very nice meeting you. See you.

00:18:54 Both of us almost did, for a start.

00:22:12 -l never stopped working. -l feel l belong, l feel necessary.

00:25:29 Okay, great. Go, go, go.

00:29:21 ...nor would l want to.

00:33:06 To you /'m just a friend

00:37:45 Smooth sailing sometimes Sometimes a kick in the rear

00:41:57 l guess having given up drugs, she has to do something.

00:46:03 -What reunion? -High school.

00:49:59 Jack. Well, l'm Suzanne's mother. ls she expecting you?

00:53:31 l'm sorry. l'll stop.

00:57:42 l hope it's your morals in question, not your judgment.

01:01:32 What do you want to know, if l smoke?

01:05:30 No. She just told me she fucked you on Saturday.

01:10:38 Your beloved business manager, Marty Weiner...

01:15:03 lt was over-the-counter medication.

01:18:49 Bring it down a little.

01:22:55 You wouldn't be ashamed to work with me again?

01:27:10 Some, l think.

01:31:15 Well, compared to the end of the world. Let's go get them, baby.

01:35:39 Just tell 'em

Cast & Characters

Meryl Streep Suzanne Vale Shirley MacLaine Doris Mann Dennis Quaid Jack Faulkner Gene Hackman Lowell Kolchek Richard Dreyfuss Doctor Frankenthal Rob Reiner Joe Pierce Mary Wickes Grandma Conrad Bain Grandpa Annette Bening Evelyn Ames Simon Callow Simon Asquith

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,396

Dialogue density13.8 lines / min

First line00:00:52

Final line01:35:39

Production Record

DirectorMike Nichols

LanguageEnglish

Budget$22,000,000

Revenue$39,071,603

IMDb votes20,295