I bought this movie because it was being sold brand new in it's wrapping for 3$. These days I'm on the lookout for movies dating from the 80s or early nineties specifically, but generally speaking I'll watch anything made before 1995 when movies became more or less garbage like 99% of the music... When I see bargain-bin deals like that before buying it I look at who produced it, who directed it, who wrote it and which studio made it, this always help to get an idea regarding the quality of the movie... It's not that I don't want to pay it's more about not wasting my time, and lately I've lost time (and money) watching insipid, boring and actionless romantic comedies written by girls where nothing happen during the whole movie... I don't think I'm being sexist, it's just like that a fact, many of the boring "Chix Flix"movie I've watched lately have been written by girls, the perfect example is "He's Just Not That Into You (2009)" with Ginnifer Goodwin, I bought the dvd in the bargain bin and couldn't watch more than 15 minutes before I needed to be ressucitated by the paramedics, I was convulsing in my own vomit... This 1990 movie "Postcards from the edge" have been written by actress Carrie Fisher whom whole career is having played Princess Leia in "Star Wars", so I figure Star Wars fans would give this movie a cult status like everything else she did... It's an autobiographical story telling the relationship between Fisher and her own famous mother Debbie Reynolds...On the plus side it have been directed by the brilliant Mike Nichols, just having him as a director maybe saved the movie, A-List actresses Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLaine are both absolutely brilliant and entertaining... The story is a superficial look at the Hollywood lifestyle and the parties, as I said the look is very superficial but fair and true to the real life... Overall I would say it's not for everybody, the story is a little bit all the same over and over but being someone who like movies and the whole Hollywood life I would say I've been entertained enough to finish watching the whole movie and like it...
Review of Postcards from the Edge
