• StatusReleased
  • Release Date1990-09-14
  • Runtime101 minutes
  • TaglineHaving a wonderful time, wish I were here.
  • Revenue39,071,603$
  • GenreComedy, Drama
  • Production
    CompaniesColumbia Pictures
  • Budget22,000,000$

Movie Overview

Substance-addicted Hollywood actress, Suzanne Vale is on the skids. After a spell at a detox centre her film company insists as a condition of continuing to employ her that she live with her mother, herself once a star and now a champion drinker. Such a set-up is bad news for Suzanne who has struggled for years to get out of her mother's shadow, and who still treats her like a child. Despite these and other problems, Suzanne begins to see the funny side of her situation, and also realises that not only do daughters have mothers—mothers do too.

Casts

Meryl Streep

Shirley MacLaine

Dennis Quaid

Gene Hackman

Richard Dreyfuss

Rob Reiner

Mary Wickes

Conrad Bain

Annette Bening

Simon Callow

Gary Morton

CCH Pounder

Robin Bartlett

Barbara Garrick

Anthony Heald

Dana Ivey

Oliver Platt

Michael Ontkean

Pepe Serna

Mark Lowenthal

JD Souther

George D. Wallace

Peter Onorati

Douglas Roberts

Michael Haley

Marcelo Tubert

John Verea

Natalija Nogulich

Susan Forristal

Steven Brill