Description: Further DetailsTitle: Postcards From The EdgeFormat: DVDCondition: NewNumber Of Discs: 1Release Date: 06/08/2001Actors: Meryl Streep, Shirley MacLaine, Dennis Quaid, Gene Hackman, Richard DreyfussDirector: Mike NicholsAudio Language: EnglishRuntime: 1 hour and 37 minutesRegion Code: DVD: 2 (Europe, Japan, Middle East...)Studio: UcaCertificate: BBFC 15Description: PRODUCT DESCRIPTION DVD Special Features: Feature length commentary by Carrie Fisher Filmographies Language choice: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish Subtitles: English, French, German, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Hindi, Turkish, Danish, Arabic, Bulgarian, Swedish, Finnish, Icelandic, Dutch, Norwegian, Portuguese, Greek, Hebrew, Spanish, Italian. AMAZON REVIEW A film by Mike Nichols of Carrie Fisher's semi-autobiographical novel, Postcards from the Edge is an intermittently hilarious, occasionally tear-stained account of an actress' struggle with addiction and with her competitive star mother. Meryl Streep turns in yet another flawlessly perfect performance as Suzanne, who is coping with cleaning up while making yet another idiot cop film. Shirley Maclaine is effective and overpowering as her hard-drinking Old Hollywood star mother perpetually trying to remould her daughter, singing Sondheim songs at parties, showing off her still-perfect legs and occasionally driving into trees. Among the many guest stars, Dennis Quaid is self-effacingly unpleasant as an unreliable boyfriend, Gene Hackman charismatic as a fatherly director and Annette Benning impressive in a cameo as a starlet rival. Nichols' standard slickness is very much on display here; this is perhaps too obviously manipulative a film in which the emotional detail is never quite as impressive as the central performances and script deserve. On the DVD: The DVD takes the rather subversive risk of giving the commentary role to Carrie Fisher, who discusses entertainingly how the screenplay evolved from her original novel, occasionally making clear that certain sentimentalisations of the characters were not her idea; she argues coherently that the film makes Meryl Streep's character a little too much the martyr. She also gives us a lot of faintly scurrilous Hollywood and family gossip. It also provides the theatrical trailer and filmographies for the director and major players. --Roz KaveneyDVDs ARE REGION 2 UNLESS OTHERWISE STATEDPlayback Region 2 :This will not play on most DVD players sold in the U.S., U.S. Territories, Canada, and Bermuda. You will require a multi-region DVD player and a PAL compatible TV to view. Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Movie/TV Title: Postcards From The Edge
Title: Postcards From The Edge
Format: DVD
Release Date: 06/08/2001
Release Year: 2001
EAN: 5035822245730
Type: Portable DVD & Blu-ray Players
Director: Mike Nichols
Actor: Richard Dreyfuss
Rating: BBFC 15
No Of Discs: 1
Run Time: 1 hour and 37 minutes
Studio: Uca
Language: English
Region Code: DVD: 2 (Europe, Japan, Middle East...)
