For example, when Doris throws a coming-home party to celebrate Suzanne’s release from the drug clinic and asks her to sing a song, wouldn’t you know that mom has to upstage the action with her own song. Problems like: the mother overshadowing her daughter the daughter unable to break off and be herself the mother telling daughter how to run her life and, the mother wants her daughter to do well, but not better than she. Suzanne agrees to the arrangement, but the mother/daughter problems they’ve had through the years soon begin to re-surface. Once Suzanne checks out, she is informed by her agent that she can only return to the set if she consents to her mother staying with her as guardian for the duration of the movie. While working on a movie, actress Suzanne Vale experiences a drug overdose and is brought to a hospital rehabilitation unit. The film follows Suzanne (Meryl Streep), an actress in her thirties, who struggles to rebuild her life and find the common ground that she and her mother, Doris (Shirley MacLaine), have neglected for years. POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE is about a very real mother-daughter relationship set against the backdrop of life in the Hollywood fast lane.
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