Postcards from the Edge

You take a well-written script and two very good acting performances and still end up with a basically lukewarm movie. Postcards from the Edge is smart and enjoyable and even moving at times. Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLaine as the Carrie Fisher/Debbie Reynolds daughter/mother pair do a great job. But somehow the movies is just okay.

It's about an actress with an overbearing famous mother coming to terms with her adulthood in the aftermath of her own accidental drug overdose. It's sort of cheesy, but the humor is very wry and it makes you really like Carrie Fisher (who wrote it) (and who is in an autobiographical one-woman show that is playing in New York at the moment, Wishful Drinking).