Postcards from the Edge

Having a wonderful time, wish I were here.

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.

Meryl Streep

Suzanne Vale

Shirley MacLaine

Doris Mann

Dennis Quaid

Jack Faulkner

Gene Hackman

Lowell Kolchek

Richard Dreyfuss

Doctor Frankenthal

Rob Reiner

Joe Pierce

Conrad Bain

Grandpa

Annette Bening

Evelyn Ames

Simon Callow

Simon Asquith

Mary Wickes

Grandma

Oliver Platt

Neil Bleene

CCH Pounder

Julie Marsden

Sidney Armus

Sid Roth

Robin Bartlett

Aretha

Barbara Garrick

Carol

Anthony Heald

George Lazan

Dana Ivey

Wardrobe Mistress

Michael Ontkean

Robert Munch