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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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that to John Garfield. Correct.
She doesn't like me to talk.
Doris, you better let
Uncle Marty handle this.
She'll listen to you,
you're not her mother.
Suzy, what can I say?
Other actresses and actors...
...who have not come to work
due to a drug or alcohol problem...
...cost the insurance companies a lot
of money. Can you see their problem?
I do see. I'm being punished.
If you'll let me finish,
you'll see this is not all bad news.
Your Uncle Marty talked to
the insurance company this morning...
...and they'll cover you...
...if you stay with a " responsible
party" for the run of the film.
What am I supposed to do?
Go to a halfway house
for wayward SAG members?
If you calm down a bit,
you'll see it's not that bad.
They said they'd cover you if you stay
with one or both of your parents.
What can I say? I said
your father lives in New York.
- So, what about Doris?
- Excuse me?
She can't stay with her father.
He's worse than she is.
- Not that you're bad.
- Stay with my mother?
I'm not a teenager!
I lived with my parents until I was
Doris, please. Thank you.
Maybe it would be better to wait
a few months to go back to work.
- Go to your AA meetings...
- I want to do this film.
I can go to meetings and work.
I do better when I work.
She's exactly like me
when I was her age.
- I never stopped working.
- I feel I belong, I feel necessary.
It was good therapy after
my divorce and my miscarriages.
In those days,
the material was a lot better.
Doris. So you got it right?
These are the conditions
for doing this film.
For the run of the film,
you stay with your mother.
You can have your old room.
Great.
Okay, I'll stay with her. You.
You know what they say,
" No pain, no gain. "
Well, no wonder I'm so hefty.
Hefty?
If anything, you are too thin.
Now, me. My stomach, that's hefty.
Mom, I was kidding.
I don't get your generation's humour.
I don't have a generation.
Then I think you should get one.
I got it right here.
Morning, I'm Ted. Designed to make
your life a more annoying place to be.
I'm Suzanne, designed to be annoyed.
Then we'll get along just great.
- This, of course, is your...
- My hamster cage.
- Your resting place.
- My final resting place.
I dreamed it would end like this.
Alone in a tiny room with an AM radio.
It won't end like this,
it'll just middle.
It'll end in a larger room...
...with air conditioning
and an AM/FM radio.
I have news to cheer you up.
The producer's coming to see you.
One of them.
- How many are there?
- Three.
The Father, the Son
and the Holy Ghost.
Which one am I
endearing myself to today?
- Anybody home?
- Morning.
Hi. Joe Pierce.

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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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