Postcards from the Edge

Lowell tells Suzanne that none of the airport scene can be saved because it was shot without any cutaways.

However, the scene is obviously edited as the characters jump about 3 feet farther from the camera as they walk from past a pole between the ticket counter and the passport control desk.

Shirley's head-scarf changes from loose to firmly fastened between shots at the hospital.

When Suzanne speaks to the pianist before performing, "you don't know me", there is a clearly visible red tape mark on the ground to instruct her where to stand.

A quarter of a century has passed since the teaming of two major divas of the past fifty years of cinema: Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLaine, playing fictional characters loosely based on Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds. Streep is a "B" movie actress struggling with various emotional issues which has lead her to become addicted to not only prescription medication, but illegal drugs such as cocaine as well.

Drug-addicted Hollywood star Suzanne Vale (Meryl Streep) is working for director Lowell Korshack (Gene Hackman). She showed promise early but her career has spiraled down.

Welcome to another edition of Adam's Reviews!! **queue in intro music**Tonight's movie review is the comedy drama Postcards from the Edge (1990), a story based on Carrie Fisher's own life and battles with fame, family and drug addiction.

Sub par film about life in yawn inducing LaLaLand. Even the greats Streep and McLaine can't salvage this mess.

I saw this movie for the first time recently after avoiding it for so long "who wants to watch a movie about Hollywood drug problems" was always my thinking. But it's a good movie.

I have to admit I love movies about movies, and this one indeed fills the bill. The combination of MacLaine and Streep is excellent, and they both shine.

When you watch "Postcards from the Edge", you wonder how much of the character is Carrie Fisher and her mother, Debbie Reynolds. Both deny that the book and movie are about them and their relationship.

I have a good buddy, who some 20 years ago got tired of getting drunk, stoned and hung-over and began going to AA. Evidently during the meetings the participants open up and mention some of the calamities that occurred to them while abusing alcohol and drugs.

One of Hollywood's better films about Hollywood, I especially like the taking serious stuff lightly tone of Carrie Fisher's fine script from her novel, and Mike Nichols' breezy direction. In general, I think this approach toward industry films is preferable to the heavy, messagey Actor As Victim Of Evil Studio System thrust of works like, say, "Frances", made at around the same time.