Postcards From the Edge

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(1990)

Genre: Comedy/Drama

Director: Mike Nichols

Writer: Carrie Fisher

Producers: John Calley, Robert Greenhut, Neil A. Machlis, Susan MacNair, Mike Nichols

Synopsis: Mike Nichols lends some comic structure to Carrie Fisher's best-selling confessional novel concerning a woman's struggles with drug addiction and mother-daughter rivalry. Meryl Streep plays Suzanne Vale, a popular movie actress well on her way to a Hollywood crack-up. -- (Written by IMDb Editors)

Cast:

• Meryl Streep
• Shirley MacLaine
• Dennis Quaid
• Gene Hackman
• Richard Dreyfuss
• Annette Bening

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Silkwood

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(1983)

Genre: Biography/Drama

Director: Mike Nichols

Writers: Nora Ephron, Alice Arlen

Producers: Larry Cano, Michael Hausman, Buzz Hirsch, Mike Nichols, Tom Stovall, Joel Tuber

Synopsis: The story of Karen Silkwood, a metallurgy worker at a plutonium processing plant who was purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing blatant worker safety violations at the plant. -- (Written by IMDb Editors)

Cast:

• Meryl Streep
• Kurt Russell
• Cher
• Craig T. Nelson
• Fred Ward
• Bruce McGill
• David Strathairn

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The River Wild

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(1994)

Genre: Action/Adventure/Thriller

Director: Curtis Hanson

Writer: Denis O'Neill

Producers: David Foster, Raymond Hartwick, Ilona Herzberg, Denis O'Neill, Lawrence Turman

Synopsis: Meryl Streep headlines this fast-paced adventure as Gail, a whitewater rafting guide. For a vacation, Gail is accompanying her son Roarke (Joseph Mazzello) and workaholic husband Tom (David Strathairn) on a river trip. Gail and Tom are experiencing marital troubles and contemplating divorce, but their problems take a back seat when they encounter some menacing rafters led by Wade (Kevin Bacon). -- (Written by IMDb Editors)

Cast:

• Meryl Streep
• Kevin Bacon
• David Strathairn
• John C. Reilly

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Hope Springs

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(2012)

Genre: Comedy/Drama

Director: David Frankel

Writer: Vanessa Taylor

Producers: Brian Bell, Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal, Guymon Casady, Chris Coggins, Lance Johnson, Nathane Kahane, Kelli Konop, Jessie Nelson, Robyn Norris, Steve Tisch

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Synopsis: Kay (Meryl Streep) and Arnold (Tommy Lee Jones) are a devoted couple, but decades of marriage have left Kay wanting to spice things up and reconnect with her husband. When she hears of a renowned couple's specialist (Steve Carell) in the small town of Great Hope Springs, she attempts to persuade her skeptical husband, a steadfast man of routine, to get on a plane for a week of marriage therapy. Just convincing the stubborn Arnold to go on the retreat is hard enough - the real challenge for both of them comes as they shed their bedroom hang-ups and try to re-ignite the spark that caused them to fall for each other in the first place. -- (Written by Sony Pictures)

Cast:

• Meryl Streep
• Tommy Lee Jones
• Steve Carell

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Angels in America

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(2003)

(TV Movie)

Genre: Drama

Director: Mike Nichols

Writer: Tony Kushner

Producers: Cary Brokaw, Celia D. Costas, Michael Haley, Mike Nichols, Marco Valerio Pugini

Synopsis: Playwright Tony Kushner adapts his political epic about the AIDS crisis during the mid-eighties, around a group of separate but connected individuals. (Written by IMDb Editors)

Cast:

• Al Pacino
• Meryl Streep
• Patrick Wilson
• Emma Thompson
• Jeffrey Wright
• James Cromwell
• Mary-Louise Parker
• Ben Shenkman

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The Iron Lady

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(2011)

Genre: Biography/Drama

Director: Phyllida Lloyd

Writer: Abi Morgan

Producers: François Ivernel, Damian Jones, Adam Kulick, Cameron McCracken, Anita Overland, Tessa Ross, Colleen Woodcock

 

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Synopsis: A look at the life of Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, with a focus on the price she paid for power. (Written by IMDb Editors)

Cast:

• Meryl Streep
• Jim Broadbent
• Alexandra Roach
• Olivia Colman

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Evening

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(2007)

Genre: Drama

Director: Lajos Koltai

Writer: Susan Minot, Michael Cunningham

Producers: Michael Cunningham, Jill Footlick, Michael Hogan, Robert Kessel, Susan Minot, Luke Parker Bowles, Thomas A. Reilly, Jeff Sharp, Claire Taylor, Nina Wolarsky

Synopsis: A drama exploring the romantic past and emotional present of Ann Grant and her daughters, Constance and Nina. As Ann lays dying, she remembers, and is moved to convey to her daughters, the defining moments in her life 50 years prior, when she was a young woman. Harris is the man Ann loves in the 1950s and never forgets. (Written by Focus Features)  

Cast:

• Claire Danes
• Toni Collette
• Vanessa Redgrave
• Patrick Wilson
• Natasha Richardson
• Hugh Dancy
• Mamie Gummer
• Eileen Atkins
• Meryl Streep
• Glenn Close

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Manhattan

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(1979)

Genre: Comedy/Drama

Director: Woody Allen

Writer: Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman

Synopsis: A divorced New Yorker currently dating a high-schooler brings himself to look for love in the mistress of his best friend instead. (Written by IMDb Editors)

Cast:

• Woody Allen
• Diane Keaton
• Meryl Streep

 

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Julie & Julia (jhunterfilmreview)

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(2009)

Genre: Biography/Drama/Comedy

Director: Nora Ephron

Writer: Nora Ephron, Julie Powell, Julia Child, Alex Prud'homme

Synopsis: Julia Child and Julie Powell - both of whom wrote memoirs - find their lives intertwined. Though separated by time and space, both women are at loose ends... until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and butter, anything is possible. (Written by Columbia Pictures)

Cast:

• Meryl Streep
• Amy Adams
• Stanley Tucci
• Jane Lynch

 

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jhunterfilmreview: Julie & Julia is based on Julie Powell's Blog which was later published as the novel Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen, as well as Julia Child's novel My Life in France. After watching the film for a second time, I really came to appreciate almost every aspect of it - the acting especially. I'm going to start with Meryl Streep - I think she's absolutely superb as Julia Child, however, looking through several Julia Child YouTube videos and comparing the voices, it can be seen that Streep exaggerates the character slightly. I sense that the exaggeration of Child's fluting voice could be rather annoying for some viewers, but for myself and others, it does quite the opposite - it is quite amusing and brings out a few laughs. Adams' performance is also quite good, but certainly not award-worthy. Streep and Adams are book-ended by two excellent supporting roles by Tucci and Messina, who really compliment these iconic female characters. What I also like, is the way the film uses original quotes from Child's television shows and Powell's original blog, to ensure that the characters are portrayed true to their form. Something in this film that was really entertaining for me was seeing the depiction of Child's life in Paris, and the hilarious scenes of her working up the ladder of the cooking world.

I give this film 7 stars.

The Hours

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 (2002)

Genre: Drama

Director: Stephen Daldry

Writer: Michael Cunningham, David Hare

Synopsis: In 1951, Laura Brown, a pregnant housewife, is planning a party for her husband, but she can't stop reading the novel 'Mrs. Dalloway'. Clarissa Vaughn, a modern woman living in present times is throwing a party for her friend Richard, a famous author dying of AIDS. These two stories are simultaneously linked to the work and life of Virginia Woolf, who's writing the novel mentioned before. (Written by Jonas Reinartz)

Cast:

• Nicole Kidman
• Meryl Streep
• Julianne Moore
• Toni Collette
• John C. Reilly
• Ed Harris
• Claire Danes

 

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