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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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: R
Year:: 1990
: 101 min
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- Instant gratification takes too long.
- Don't think about that now.
I'll handle everything while
you're in here. No pressure.
I don't want anything
hanging over your head.
I want you to be absolutely clear.
I promised myself I would not
do this and look at me.
I didn't want you to see me get upset.
I hate getting upset.
I really hate that
you have to go through this.
I wish I could do it for you.
Ever since you were a little girl, I
had this feeling that I'd lose you...
...that you'd be taken from me early.
As opposed to later,
when it would be more convenient?
You are tough. You're just
like Grandma, always judging me.
- We don't need to go over this again.
- You never let me talk.
It's just that I feel like
I'm not talking to you sometimes.
It feels like I'm talking
to your drama coach.
You think you could try
not being so mad at me?
I'll rinse these.
I have Woolite in my purse.
- It's handy for the road.
- Leave it!
I'll have some clothes
brought by tomorrow...
...and your tape cassette thing
for your music and a quilt.
Sunday afternoon, Mary will bring
your video machine and some tapes...
...and a plant.
It's so blah in here.
I don't know how you stand it,
everything one colour.
Flowers for you, Suzanne.
Who died?
Both of us almost did, for a start.
Who are they from?
They're from the guy
who pumped my stomach.
Bullshit.
" Hope your stomach is better.
You seem to me to be
what my mother warned me about:
A beautiful and overly
sensitive person. "
He can tell from
the contents of your stomach.
I have to be sensitive to need dope.
I'm tempted to marry him
so I can tell people how we met.
Lowell Korshack's on the phone again.
Tell him I'm detoxing.
He's a director I was working with.
I don't want to talk to him.
I'm embarrassed.
I don't have to, do I?
You don't have to do anything
you don't want to.
Except never take drugs and go to AA
meetings for the rest of your life.
Oh, I feel so much better.
What can I say?
The upshot of the whole thing is
that your being in the clinic...
...made you a high risk to do a movie.
They want me to do it.
I talked to the director.
The director is not the problem.
It's the insurance company.
They won't cover you if you do drugs.
What can I say?
I'm not doing any drugs.
We know. These are businessmen...
...with no knowledge
of creative personalities.
Actors are not treated well.
And actresses are treated like...
...I hate to use the word, but, sh*t.
I remember when I was 15 years old.
Mr. Mayer called me in for a meeting.
He was on the toilet.
We had the meeting
with him on the toilet.
You can be sure he wouldn't have done

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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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