After a near-fatal overdose, Suzanne is told she can’t be hired for a new film unless she puts herself in the care of a responsible party. It’s a wise move, especially with Meryl Streep on hand to portray the wisecracking but insecure Suzanne and Shirley MacLaine to play her iron-butterfly mother, Doris. Fisher jettisons most of the book’s rehab-center material and focuses on the mother-daughter relationship. That Fisher, the actress daughter of Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher, knows the territory is evident from the novel and this fiercely witty and moving film version, scripted by Fisher and incisively directed by Mike Nichols.
“In her first novel, ‘Postcards From the Edge,’ Carrie Fisher showed how famous parents, plus lovers, shrinks, drugs and a career in the shadows, nearly finished a fictional actress named Suzanne Vale.
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