It’s a really good movie

The director has once again managed to make a wonderful movie with good people. I liked it very much.

In my opinion, the movie uses very good camera and audio visual equipment and the crew members and the filmmakers have played their roles very well. I really liked it.

The acting is so good

Hollywood actress Suzanne Vale is on a slippery slope as a recovering addict. On exit from rehab, it is recommended she stay with her mother, who has become a somewhat champion drinker herself. Suzanne therefore struggles to maintain her sobriety and her sanity in the company of Doris.

Nostalgic vibes are something else.

Better for girls kk. Storyline is very interesting and charming.

This movie deals with a great topic. Motherhood and perceived trauma. How does one continue to relate with a parent whom we perceive as one’s aggressor? The movie tries to give an answer - as expected a simplistic , yet an answer. In line with individualism and pop psychology: mind over matter. I think in this sloppy way of dealing with an ever lasting problem, it deals with narcissism in a way that’s very realistic. It challenges the expectation that motherhood comes with absolute abnegation. Besides the topic, the movie has several great scenes but it’s too disjointed. Perhaps because nothing is really dealt with but rather just pushed aside. We would expect more out of it but maybe that too is an unrealistic expectation

Stinker. If not now vintage and Meryl Streep in it it would be complete stinker plus plus plus.

From the brilliant mind of the late Carrie Fisher comes a mother-daughter bonding flick but not the most traditional Meryl Streep, Shirley McClain, Dennis Quaid, CCH Pounder, Gene Hackman, Oliver Platt The great Meryl Streep is Suzanne; actress but she’s also a druggie She suffers an overdose and gets admitted into rehab Her mother played by Shirley MacLaine is a Broadway musical actress and social drinker, she steps in to help her get back on her feet. Although Suzanne wants to get out from under Doris’ shadow. Love the repertoire between McClain and Streep as mother and daughter. Sharp dialogue from Carrie Fisher herself since it was a semi-auto-biography. Both of them are constantly at each other’s throats but there’s love hidden underneath the resentment they’re displaying. McClain takes on the Debbie Reynolds role which is something you don’t see all the time. She worries for her daughter constantly relapsing and falling in and out of love repeatedly. Even Hackman gives a heartfelt speech about addiction and recovery. It’s true we always adore our mothers from birth but some of us want to get out from their orbit, one generation always clashes with one another, mothers don’t want to lose their daughters before their time, why can’t we share people?, it’s important we enjoy our turn once another’s is over, we shouldn’t take something and make it into nothing, we claim it all starts with our mothers since the dawn of time but at some point we gotta say it starts with me, life isn’t like the movies where you have a realization and suddenly things go right you have to have the realization on your own The movie thanks to Carrie Fisher puts a humorous spin on mommy issues, truly a universal thing we can all adhere to heck life imitates art and Vice versa sometimes in a funny manner Streep and Maclaine make quite the mother-daughter opus in a world of show business and personal struggles

A Must-See film. Streep and McClaine's performances are outstanding, and the screenplay by Carrie Fisher is very witty.

Terms of Endearment meets Valley of the Dolls; with a dash of The Player; this mother/daughter love/hate relationship movie; a reconciliation movie for women; like the aforementioned Terms; with a dash of Player's satire on Hollywood culture; and a satire on the drug use; ala Dolls; and loosely based on Carrie Fisher's autobiography. Not as gritty or edgy as the ads made it seem; this is really a sweet, laid back rom-com set in a rehab center; which follows the misadventures of Merryl as she stumbles through recovery; and sorts out her messy relationship with her mother. This is mostly light; silly stuff; but it's exceedingly well acted; and it's very likable; with a spiky, sparkling script by Carrie Fisher. Not as important or portentious and incisive as it wants to be, but it's fun.

I didn't like this one at all. Not even Meryl Streep and Shirley MaClaine (two of my favorite actresses) could save it.

Story/Screenplay: (3.5/5) A dialogue driven drama with a bit of deadpan comedy thrown in. It's deliberately paced in its storytelling, efficiently driving the story forward via developments in character relationships and in the characters themselves. Duration/Tempo: (3.5/5) At 1 hour and 41 minutes, it's a shorter than average movie that felt about the same. After about 2/3 of the film had elapsed, I was surprised at how quickly the film had been moving. Alas, it slowed over the last third. Cast & Crew: (3.5/5) Nice chemistry between Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLaine. Gene Hackman was great in a smaller, but memorable, role. Summary: (3.5/5) The story and cast were both good and the film felt a little short. A thumbs up.

Feels like a foregone conclusion to rave about Meryl Streep being great in a movie but here I am raving about Meryl Streep being really great in this movie. Watching her and Shirley MacLaine together while channeling the great Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds is like a gay beacon that I'd somehow missed until now. The supporting cast is shockingly stacked to the point of almost being distracting but the beautiful story of this mother/daughter relationship shines through and tackles addiction in a way that feels truly ahead of its time.

From the brilliant mind of the late Carrie Fisher comes a mother-daughter bonding flick but not the most traditional Meryl Streep, Shirley McClain, Dennis Quaid, CCH Pounder, Gene Hackman, Oliver Platt The great Meryl Streep is Suzanne; actress but she's also a druggie She suffers an overdose and gets admitted into rehab Her mother played by Shirley MacLaine is a Broadway musical actress and social drinker, she steps in to help her get back on her feet. Although Suzanne wants to get out from under Doris' shadow. Love the repertoire between McClain and Streep as mother and daughter. Sharp dialogue from Carrie Fisher herself since it was a semi-auto-biography. Both of them are constantly at each other's throats but there's love hidden underneath the resentment they're displaying. McClain takes on the Debbie Reynolds role which is something you don't see all the time. She worries for her daughter constantly relapsing and falling in and out of love repeatedly. Even Hackman gives a heartfelt speech about addiction and recovery. It's true we always adore our mothers from birth but some of us want to get out from their orbit, one generation always clashes with one another, mothers don't want to lose their daughters before their time, why can't we share people?, it's important we enjoy our turn once another's is over, we shouldn't take something and make it into nothing, we claim it all starts with our mothers since the dawn of time but at some point we gotta say it starts with me, life isn't like the movies where you have a realization and suddenly things go right you have to have the realization on your own The movie thanks to Carrie Fisher puts a humorous spin on mommy issues, truly a universal thing we can all adhere to heck life imitates art and Vice versa sometimes in a funny manner Streep and Maclaine make quite the mother-daughter opus in a world of show business and personal struggles

Great onscreen pairing in this relatable comedic drama.

A clever script helped by strong performances.

While this film is still relatively entertaining and provides an opportunity for Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLaine to give typically excellent performances I could not help but feel rather disappointed. Possibly the biggest issue with the film is the fact that the main character is ostensibly the writer and in many ways we feel like we are held back from really getting to know her as there is a certain amount of vanity to Fisher writes her and the reaction of other characters to her. Fortunately Mike Nichols' smart direction and the bravura performances from the entire cast help to accommodate for a subpar screenplay. Drug addicted actress Suzanne Vale, Meryl Streep, struggles to successfully perform on the set of a film directed by Lowell Kolchek, Gene Hackman, who serves as a father figure of sorts to her. She overdoses after sleeping with playboy producer Jack Faulkner, Dennis Quaid, who promptly abandons her at an Emergency Room. After spending a considerable amount of time in a rehabilitation center she is forced to stay with her overbearing mother Doris Mann, Shirley MacLaine, who is a Hollywood legend. There is animosity between the two as Vale believes that Mann is trying to steal attention from her and does not care about her issues as well as being an alcoholic. Vale falls back into a relationship with Faulkner on the set off her latest film but comes to understand that he is using her and is sleeping with several other women while dating her. Eventually mother and daughter reconcile after an accident and Vale is able to get her career back on track. Streep proves that she is a natural comedic actress in this film as she delivers one liners with wit and mirth and is more convincing than you would expect as someone who doesn't know what they are doing. She is more glamorous than she usually appears in her films and unlike some actresses she can convincingly play a movie star as she convinces us of Vale's arrogance and self consciousness in every moment she appears on screen. MacLaine is more than up to the task of matching her as she is delightfully over the top with all of her affectations and performative gestures that reek of falseness but also insecurity. Their dramatic catfight does not reach the heights of The Turning Point (1977), a true MacLaine classic, but it is exciting enough to see of the greats go up against one another. One issue with these casting these actresses however is while they are fantastic at acting they are both just adequate singers, in MacLaine's case this might be debatable, which makes it hard to believe they are legendary performers. It was painful watching what was meant to be a rousing song and dance number from MacLaine as she mumbled her lines more than sang them and Streep's final number was not as triumphant a moment as it should have been. If you want me to believe that a character is a world famous singer then hire actresses with great voices. The supporting cast also get moments to shine as Quaid and Richard Drefuss, as a kind doctor who takes a liking to Vale, impress in just a few scenes. But it is Hackman who legitimately steals scenes from Streep getting just the right balance between gruff and fatherly. Sadly they cannot rescue the film from it's weak writing as it initially appears to want to address addiction and the struggle of getting over it but then quickly becomes a comedy about a dysfunctional mother daughter relationship. The very quick dropping of what was built up as an important part of Vale's character is uncomfortable and throughout the rest of the film it struggles to hold a tone as it jumps from comedy to serious family drama. As previously stated Fisher's account of her own life seems rather vain as people often note that Vale, a stand-in for Fisher, is very attractive or funny or a whole host of other positive traits that don't seem realistic. I would have hired a writer who was not as close to the story and the characters as Fisher was to write the screenplay so it felt more honest and fresh.

The best comedy movie ever made! With the best movie song ever sung: I'm Still Here!