Postcards from the Edge

Substance-addicted Hollywood actress, Suzanne Vale is on the skids. After a spell at a detox centre her film company insists as a condition of continuing to employ her that she live with her mother, 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 still treats her like a child. Despite these and other problems, Suzanne begins to see the funny side of her situation, and also realises that not only do daughters have mothers—mothers do too.

Top Cast

Meryl Streep

Suzanne Vale

Shirley MacLaine

Doris Mann

Dennis Quaid

Jack Faulkner

Gene Hackman

Lowell Kolchek

Richard Dreyfuss

Dr. Frankenthal