A substance-addicted actress tries to look on the bright side even as she is forced to move back in with her mother to avoid unemployment.
Director:
Mike Nichols
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Meryl Streep | ... | Suzanne Vale | |
| Shirley MacLaine | ... | Doris Mann | |
| Dennis Quaid | ... | Jack Faulkner | |
| Gene Hackman | ... | Lowell Kolchek | |
| Richard Dreyfuss | ... | Doctor Frankenthal | |
| Rob Reiner | ... | Joe Pierce | |
| Mary Wickes | ... | Grandma | |
| Conrad Bain | ... | Grandpa | |
| Annette Bening | ... | Evelyn Ames | |
| Simon Callow | ... | Simon Asquith | |
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Gary Morton | ... | Marty Wiener |
| CCH Pounder | ... | Julie Marsden (as C.C.H. Pounder) | |
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Sidney Armus | ... | Sid Roth |
| Robin Bartlett | ... | Aretha | |
| Barbara Garrick | ... | Carol | |
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Substance-addicted Hollywood actress Suzanne Vale is on the skids. After a spell at a detox center her film company insists, as a condition of continuing to employ her, that she live with her mother, Doris Mann, who was once a star and now a champion drinker. Such a set-up is bad news for her as she has struggled for years to get out of Doris' shadow, who still treats her like a child. Despite these problems and further ones involving the men in in her life, she can begin to see the funny side of her situation, and it also starts to occur to her that not only do daughters have mothers, mothers do too. Written by Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords:
drug rehabilitation | alcoholism | domineering mother | female protagonist | drug overdose |Taglines:
Having a wonderful time, wish I were here.Parents Guide:
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Country:
USARelease Date:
14 September 1990 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Recuerdos de Hollywood See more »Filming Locations:
Los Angeles, California, USAEdit
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Budget:
$22,000,000 (estimated)Gross USA:
$37,963,281Company Credits
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Suzanne: Sure. Bart, this is my mom...
Bart: Oh, Miss Mann, I've loved you my whole life. Ever since I was seven, I wanted to be you.
Alan: Bart does you in his drag show.
Bart: Oh, this is my lover, Alan. Yes, I wear a costume exactly like the one you wore in "That Marvelous Mrs. Markham."
Doris: Oh, the one with the corset? That was so difficult to wear...
Suzanne: Mom?
Doris: Oh, I must go, sorry, boys. It was very nice to meet you.
[whispering to Suzanne]
Doris: Sorry, dear, but you know how much the ...
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Cast mates Shirley MacLaine and Annette Bening would become sisters-in-law a few short years later, when Bening married MacLaine's brother, Warren Beatty. Beatty had appeared in Carrie Fisher's first film, Shampoo (1975). See more »Goofs
Shirley's head-scarf changes from loose to firmly fastened between shots at the hospital. See more »Quotes
Bart: Excuse me, Suzanne, can I meet your mother?Suzanne: Sure. Bart, this is my mom...
Bart: Oh, Miss Mann, I've loved you my whole life. Ever since I was seven, I wanted to be you.
Alan: Bart does you in his drag show.
Bart: Oh, this is my lover, Alan. Yes, I wear a costume exactly like the one you wore in "That Marvelous Mrs. Markham."
Doris: Oh, the one with the corset? That was so difficult to wear...
Suzanne: Mom?
Doris: Oh, I must go, sorry, boys. It was very nice to meet you.
[whispering to Suzanne]
Doris: Sorry, dear, but you know how much the ...
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A really wonderful, funny and sad film with bravura performances by Streep, MacLaine, Quaid and a hilarioius cameo by Annette Benning ("they give you and endolphin rush!"). One of Streep's best performances and won of the many Oscars she should have won but was passed over for. This film holds up each time I see it.