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Postcards from the Edge

film by Nichols [1990]

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contribution by Simon

In Carly Simon
…scored music for the films Postcards from the Edge (1990) and This Is My Life (1992).
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discussed in biography

In Mike Nichols: Middle years: Silkwood, Working Girl, and The Birdcage
Postcards from the Edge (1990), adapted by Carrie Fisher from her acerbic semiautobiographical novel, starred Streep as an addicted actress who has to endure first drug rehabilitation and then probation with her alcoholic, domineering mother (Shirley MacLaine) before finally getting her life under control. Nichols’s…
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role of Streep

In Meryl Streep: A devil, Julia Child, and Margaret Thatcher
…a handful of comedies, including Postcards from the Edge (1990) and Death Becomes Her (1992), and in the action-adventure film The River Wild (1994). For the most part, these films were not well received, and Streep returned to dramatic films that required more technical skill and less personal charisma. She…
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