Postcards from the Edge (1990) Reviews & Ratings

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Postcards from the Edge reviews

Postcards from the Edge holds a 6.6/10 average from 306 TMDB ratings.

Despite there only being fifteen years between them, I actually thought that Shirley MacLaine and Meryl Streep made the mother/daughter thing work quite well here. The former, "Doris", is a wealthy and accomplished singer; the latter, "Suzanne", is a successful actress with dependency issues. Indeed they both have those - mum with the booze and her child with the pills. It's on the set of her latest film that direct…
— CinemaSerf (7/10)

A substance-addicted actress tries to look on the bright side even as she's forced to move back in with her mother to avoid unemployment.

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