Postcards from the Edge (1990)
Directed by Mike Nichols
A substance-addicted actress tries to look on the bright side even as she's forced to move back in with her mother to avoid unemployment.
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And while we knew this woman of 1,000 voices could also sing – Streep handled vocal duties in A Prairie Home Companion and Postcards from the Edge with skill – turns out she's got a primo set of pipes and a fearless style of from-the-heart dancing that shows she can handle the heavy lifting required to carry a musical lead.
Hawn, in theory at least, is supposed to be playing one of those cranky maternal comic nightmares, like Shirley MacLaine in “Terms of Endearment” or “Postcards from the Edge” or — to tie it to the franchise era of Mother’s-Day-weekend-as-marketing concept — Jane Fonda in “Monster-in-Law.”
It also sacrifices the pep and mordant wit of Postcards from the Edge, another addiction film, and ends up being ponderous.
Babylon is going to have to be a dazzlingly original production indeed to make it stand out in comparison with, say, Singin’ in the Rain , The Barefoot Contessa , Chaplin , Blonde , The Bad and the Beautiful , The Big Knife , A Star Is Born (any of the four versions), The Day of the Locust , The Loved One , Mank , Once Upon a Time in Hollywood , Barton Fink , Postcards from the Edge , The Last Tycoon or Beware of a Holy Whore , to name a random few.
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And he's been triumphant in dealing with complex issues involving sex and relationships with films like "The Graduate," "Postcards from the Edge," and "The Birdcage."