Talk:Postcards from the Edge (film)

On what grounds is this rated highly important? What's the big film history ooomph here? Daniel Case 05:34, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Plot
The plot of this movies has obviously been written by a fan and does sound like an article of an encyclopedia. Also the trivia section states that because a wig is being pulled from Reynolds's head during another movie, showing hair under the wig, proves she is not bald. It's a movie, you can easily have a wig under a wig. The whole tone of the plot as written here here is like that. It should be changed. There is also no explanation about what Debbie Reynolds has to do in this article. It should be noted that she is the author's mother and Doris Mann is loosely based on her. Dollvalley 10:55, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

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Trivia
This article has the following in its trivia section: Is this really very important? If so, feel free to put it back into the article, but please incorporate this into the main article. Shouldn't this be in the article Debbie Reynolds? Should this be in this article? - Tbsdy lives (talk) 10:16, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Scenes were filmed with John Cusack playing one of Vale's friends in rehab that belonged to the Manson Family. (In the novel, "Mark" has ties to Manson; Suzanne seems okay with Mark, but Alex is alternately offended and scared.) His scenes were later cut.
 * Though the scene in the hospital room where Doris Mann is not wearing a wig shows her as practically bald, the fight scene during TV's These Old Broads, where Debbie Reynolds's wig is pulled from her head, makes it obvious that Reynolds actually has a full and lustrous head of hair. (Fisher also notes that Reynolds is not bald in the DVD commentary.)
 * The song "I'm Checkin' Out," nominated for an Academy Award, was due to be sung by Reba McEntire at the awards show. The week before the show, on March 16 1991, her road manager and seven members of her band were killed in a plane crash.  She went ahead and appeared on the program and dedicated the performance to them.

Differences from novel?
Just for fun I picked up the book today and read it (why do I always get to the novels AFTER the film comes out?!).

The novel is just un-film-able. Woody Allen might have been able to do it, but he might've said, "Dang! This is talky!" The book is just people musing about life.

The changes show that smart people optioned and adapted this material. Is any talk about that appropriate? The film entry for this book mentions NONE of this. I haven't checked the credits, but whomever adapted this for the screen did a brilliant job. The whole "Mother/Daughter" thing is not a big deal in the book; it's a huge deal in the film.

Jfulbright (talk) 05:56, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

The screenplay was also done by Carrie Fischer, so she is essentially adapting from her own work.

--Clarence.yu (talk) 09:03, 28 July 2010 (UTC)