Directed by:
Mike NicholsScreenplay:
Carrie FisherCinematography:
Michael BallhausComposer:
Carly SimonCast:
Meryl Streep, Shirley MacLaine, Dennis Quaid, Gene Hackman, Richard Dreyfuss, Rob Reiner, Annette Bening, Conrad Bain, Simon Callow, CCH Pounder (more)VOD (1)
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Based on Carrie Fisher's roman a clef, the story concerns a young actress who has recently gone through drug rehabilitation, and is trying to cope with not only the Hollywood scene but her own mother's, a former musical comedy star of the 50s and 60s, more socially acceptable alcoholism. (official distributor synopsis)
Cast
Meryl Streep
USA
Best movies:
Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
Out of Africa (1985)
The Deer Hunter (1978)
Shirley MacLaine
USA
Best movies:
Barbra: The Concert (1994) (concert)
The Apartment (1960)
Being There (1979)
Dennis Quaid
USA
Best movies:
Traffic (2000)
The Right Stuff (1983)
Any Given Sunday (1999)
Gene Hackman
USA
Best movies:
Mississippi Burning (1988)
Enemy of the State (1998)
Unforgiven (1992)
Richard Dreyfuss
USA
Best movies:
The Graduate (1967)
Jaws (1975)
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990)
Rob Reiner
USA
Best movies:
Barbra: The Concert (1994) (concert)
Misery (1990)
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
Annette Bening
USA
Best movies:
American Beauty (1999)
Mother and Child (2009)
Valmont (1989)
Conrad Bain
Canada
Best movies:
I Never Sang for My Father (1970)
Bananas (1971)
A New Leaf (1971)
Simon Callow
UK
Best movies:
Amadeus (1984)
No Man's Land (2001)
The Company (2007) (series)
CCH Pounder
Guyana
Best movies:
If Tomorrow Comes (1986) (series)
Avatar (2009)
All That Jazz (1979)
Robin Bartlett
USA
Best movies:
Shutter Island (2010)
Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
Sophie's Choice (1982)
Anthony Heald
USA
Best movies:
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
The X Files: Closure (1999) (video compilation)
8MM (1999)
Dana Ivey
USA
Best movies:
The Help (2011)
The Color Purple (1985)
La Famille Addams (1991)
Oliver Platt
Canada
Best movies:
X-Men: First Class (2011)
Frost/Nixon (2008)
Benny & Joon (1993)
Michael Ontkean
Canada
Best movies:
Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces (2014)
Street Justice (1987)
Making Love (1982)
Peter Onorati
USA
Best movies:
Goodfellas (1990)
Batman vs. Robin (2015)
Postcards from the Edge (1990)
Natalia Nogulich
USA
Best movies:
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)
Georgia (1981)
Prey (1998) (series)
Jane Galloway
USA
Best movies:
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries: Missing Joseph (2002) (TV movie)
Postcards from the Edge (1990)
Just Visiting (2001)
Steven Brill
USA
Best movies:
Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989)
Batman Returns (1992)
Ted Raimi
USA
Best movies:
Reign Over Me (2007)
Evil Dead 2 (1987)
It's Murder! (1977)