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Synopsis: Substance-addicted Hollywood actress Suzanne Vale is on the skids. After a spell at a detox center her film company insists, as a condition of continuing to employ her, that she live with her mother Doris Mann, 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 finds her mother still treats her like a child. Despite these problems - and further ones involving the men in in her life - Suzanne can begin to see the funny side of her situation, and it also starts to occur to her that not only do daughters have mothers, mothers do too.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Mike Nichols
Actors: Meryl Streep, Shirley MacLaine, Dennis Quaid, Gene Hackman
Production: Columbia Pictures Corporation
  Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 10 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.7
Metacritic:
71
Rotten Tomatoes:
90%
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Year:
1990
101 min
582 Views

I don't know.

Good.

That's your first step.

I just feel like

if I don't do what you want...

...you're gonna leave me.

You'll punish me.

All right, all right.

Let's stop there for the day.

Good work, Carol.

Okay, everybody, before we go,

I'd like to introduce...

...a newcomer, Suzanne,

who's just out of detox.

Hi, Suzanne, and welcome.

Weren't your parents coming tonight?

My mother, you mean.

No, my mother's working.

She's coming if she can.

We should all visit with our

significant others for a few minutes.

Suzanne, could I talk to you?

Deal with your feelings

before they deal with you.

Do you always talk in bumper stickers?

Addiction isn't the problem,

it's the solution.

- You do.

- Until you remove the solution...

...you can't see what the problem is.

This anger's not about me.

Who are you angry with?

Hello, darling!

Hello, dear.

Hi, Mama.

Am I too late for the family thing?

Yeah, but it's okay.

I did not want to miss that. How did

it go? What's wrong with your hair?

- It's all the rage in the rehab.

- Excuse me, Suzanne.

Can I meet your mother?

- Sure. Bart, this is my mom.

- I can't believe I'm meeting you.

- Since I was 7, I wanted to be you.

- Bart does you in his drag show.

- This is my lover, Allen.

- Hello, Allen.

What number do you do?

"Whistling Pines. "

My costume's like the one you wore...

...in That Marvellous Mrs. Markham.

The one with the corset?

That was so difficult to wear.

Sorry, boys.

- Nice meeting you.

- Very nice meeting you. See you.

Dear, sorry, but you know

how much the queens love me.

Whistling pines

Call out to me

Under the stars

You'll hear the trees

- She looks fabulous.

- Who do you think did her?

Dr. Klein. He does all of them.

I wonder what Allen does.

This is my new roommate, Aretha.

How do you do? How rude of me.

I was excited to see my daughter.

Aretha's an unusual name.

I know. I think my parents

were expecting someone black.

Are you black?

No.

It's very nice to meet you.

Suzanne has told me so much about you.

I think I'll go

weave a basket or something...

...and let the two of you visit.

- She seems very unusual.

- Yeah.

I'm glad you're making new friends.

Thanks, Mom!

Have you talked to Marty?

Not yet.

- You should.

- I know.

You're supposed

to start that new film.

- I'm not doing it.

- Don't do it. I'll tell you why.

I'm not going to do it.

First:
It is not a pivotal project

in your career.

Two:
You'll need time

to rest and explore.

And C:
You should change agents. I

don't like what they're doing for you.

Careers need planning. Your big

problem is, you're too impatient.

You only want instant gratification.

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Carrie Fisher

Carrie Frances Fisher (October 21, 1956 – December 27, 2016) was an American actress, writer, and humorist. Fisher is known for playing Princess Leia in the Star Wars films, a role for which she was nominated for three Saturn Awards. Her other film credits include Shampoo (1975), The Blues Brothers (1980), Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), The 'Burbs (1989), When Harry Met Sally... (1989), Soapdish (1991), and The Women (2008). She was nominated twice for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for her performances on the television series 30 Rock and Catastrophe. She was posthumously made a Disney Legend in 2017, and in 2018 she was awarded a posthumous Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album. Fisher wrote several semi-autobiographical novels, including Postcards from the Edge and an autobiographical one-woman play, and its non-fiction book, Wishful Drinking, based on the play. She wrote the screenplay for the film version of Postcards From The Edge which garnered her a BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay nomination, and her one-woman stage show of Wishful Drinking was filmed for television and received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety Special. She worked on other writers' screenplays as a script doctor, including tightening the scripts for Hook (1991), Sister Act (1992), The Wedding Singer (1998), and many of the films from the Star Wars franchise, among others. In later years, she earned praise for speaking publicly about her experiences with bipolar disorder and drug addiction. Fisher was the daughter of singer Eddie Fisher and actress Debbie Reynolds. She and her mother appear in Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, a documentary about their relationship. It premiered at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. Fisher died of a sudden cardiac arrest on December 27, 2016, at age 60, four days after experiencing a medical emergency during a transatlantic flight from London to Los Angeles. One of her final films, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, was released on December 15, 2017 and is dedicated to her. Fisher will, however, appear in Star Wars: Episode IX through the use of unreleased footage from The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi . more…

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