Comedy drama based on Carrie Fisher's novel, starring Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLaine. Hollywood actress Suzanne Vale is placed in a drug rehabilitation clinic after the addiction that is impairing her acting results in an overdose. On her release, Suzanne lands a part in a third-rate film, but is forced to live with her overbearing showbusiness mother to keep her job.
It bears little resemblance to Carrie Fisher's screamingly funny bestselling novel, yet director Mike Nichols's grand tour through "Hollywood Babylon" behaviour and Bel Air-head lifestyles still emerges as a reasonably savage showbiz satire. Meryl Streep plays the selfish actress in celebrity detox, who moves back home with her overbearing mother (Shirley MacLaine), in this thinly veiled account of Fisher's own poignant love/hate relationship with real-life mother Debbie Reynolds. Both stars rise to the bitchy one-liner occasion and turn on the glitz, glamour and grit in an engaging ride on the hypocritical Hollywood highway.
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Suzanne Vale | Meryl Streep |
| Doris Mann | Shirley MacLaine |
| Jack Falkner | Dennis Quaid |
| Lowell | Gene Hackman |
| Dr Frankenthal | Richard Dreyfuss |
| Joe Pierce | Rob Reiner |
| Grandma | Mary Wickes |
| Grandpa | Conrad Bain |
| Evelyn Ames | Annette Bening |
| Simon Asquith | Simon Callow |
| Marty Weiner | Gary Morton |
| Julie Marsden | C C H Pounder |
| Sid Roth | Sidney Armus |
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Director | Mike Nichols |
