Postcards from the Edge
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Search complete. 27 mentions across 10 episodes found for "Postcards from the Edge".
Sep 13, 2026
ErinHOST
Virginia's own Shirley MacLaine.
ErinHOST
She was in The Apartment, The Children's Hour, Terms of Endearment, Postcards from the Edge, which I have to say, I confused this film with Terms of Endearment.
LizHOST
I did, too.
LizHOST
I did, too.
Lucien WandailyHOST
She's playing older and she starts playing mothers and grandmothers and everything.
Lucien WandailyHOST
So she plays Meryl Streep and her basically play Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher in a movie called Postcards from the Edge, which Mike Nichols directs.
Lucien WandailyHOST
I will confess I haven't seen it.
Lucien WandailyHOST
I was hoping to get to it before this, but it's got an amazing cast.
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speaker_3UNKNOWN
Did you say Mike Nichols? Mike Nichols.
Shane KellyHOST
Earlier?
Lucien WandailyHOST
Yeah, because he made Postcards from the Edge.
Lucien WandailyHOST
And, of course.
CharlesHOST
Yeah, so...
CharlesHOST
Meryl was in a bit of an Oscar slump at this point because her last nomination, which was her ninth, was in 1990 for Postcards from the Edge.
CharlesHOST
However,
LaurenHOST
so she had
Kristofer WestonHOST
Okay.
Kristofer WestonHOST
God, this better be Postcards from the Edge.
Kristofer WestonHOST
Is it?
Amp SomersHOST
Postcards from the Edge.
Kristofer WestonHOST
Oh my God, because that is my number one movie of all fucking time.
Kristofer WestonHOST
[laughs]
Amp SomersHOST
Of course it is.
Kristofer WestonHOST
I can watch Postcards from the Edge a million times and never get sick of it.
Simon BrettPANELIST
And hello, I'm Simon.
JR SouthallHOST
So this comes out of the conversation we had a few weeks ago about Postcards from the Edge.
JR SouthallHOST
And although there was another reason, a different reason why we watched that, in the end, I mean, as it was going on, we were essentially comparing it with the spate of films that came out just afterwards, which a lot of which were along similar lines, had similar themes.
JR SouthallHOST
And there's always been movies about movies.
JR SouthallHOST
It sort of happens gradually.
JR SouthallHOST
And then when 1990 hits, there's just a spate of it.
JR SouthallHOST
And you wonder whether Robert Altman, when he was making The Player, for example... had seen Postcards from the Edge and said to himself I can do that because of the three films we're talking about here I think that's one that's the most similar probably and Barton Fink would have been on its way before Postcards from the Edge probably came out so I don't know if there's any influence there Let's do what we usually do then.
JR SouthallHOST
We'll go through the three in chronological order.
Claudia LonowGUEST
You know, and it takes place in AA and whatever.
Claudia LonowGUEST
It was, like, about me, and I, 'cause I had seen Postcards from the Edge, so I thought-
Andrew ReichHOST
[laughs]
Claudia LonowGUEST
... well, you know, I'm a, I'm an actress.
Nick WestrateHOST
It's so funny.
Nick WestrateHOST
This, for Shirley, is right in between Madame Susatsuka and Postcards from the Edge, which are two very glamorous roles.
Jason BlackHOST
I know.
Nick WestrateHOST
You know? I know.
Kathryn KirkHOST
[laughs] Um, we are at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in the rampant DVD section that me and Katie have both gotten lost in about three times already.
Kathryn KirkHOST
Um, and I have my pick for her, which is Postcards from the Edge, um, originally written by Carrie Fisher and directed by Mike Nichols, starring Meryl Streep, Dennis Quaid, and Shirley MacLaine, and loosely based on Carrie Fisher's relationship with her mother, Debbie Reynolds.
Kathryn KirkHOST
I'm showing this to Katie because it's one of my favorite movies ever as I think it depicts the complex relationships between mothers and daughters extremely well, [laughs] and I'm a girl who has mommy issues.
Kathryn KirkHOST
Um...
Jasmine BinderHOST
[laughs]
Kathryn KirkHOST
All right.
Kathryn KirkHOST
So as you saw/heard, uh, this week we are reviewing Postcards from the Edge and Gone With the Wind.
Kathryn KirkHOST
[laughs]
Kathryn KirkHOST
[laughs] Um, we are at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in the rampant DVD section that me and Katie have both gotten lost in about three times already.
Kathryn KirkHOST
Um, and I have my pick for her, which is Postcards from the Edge, um, originally written by Carrie Fisher and directed by Mike Nichols, starring Meryl Streep, Dennis Quaid, and Shirley MacLaine, and loosely based on Carrie Fisher's relationship with her mother, Debbie Reynolds.
Kathryn KirkHOST
I'm showing this to Katie because it's one of my favorite movies ever, as I think it depicts the complex relationships between mothers and daughters extremely well, [laughs] and I'm a girl who has mommy issues.
Kathryn KirkHOST
Um.
Jasmine BinderHOST
[laughs]
Kathryn KirkHOST
[laughs] All right.
Kathryn KirkHOST
So as you saw/heard, uh, this week we are reviewing Postcards from the Edge and Gone With the Wind.
Kathryn KirkHOST
[laughs]
Jeremy CohenHOST
He did good work.
Jeremy CohenHOST
Postcards from the Edge, he has the cameo as a filmmaker.
Jeremy CohenHOST
He gets to try to get a piss test from Carrie Fisher, and it's, like, the comedic highlight of the movie.
Jeremy CohenHOST
But Rob Reiner, the story that Ashley Judd told, that to me seems to sum up how he operated as a person, how he dealt with actors.