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Bright Lights, Big City is a american film of genre Drama directed by James Bridges released in USA on 1 april 1988 with Michael J. Fox
Bright Lights, Big City (1988)
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Add to a movie listBright Lights, Big City is a 1988 American drama film directed by James Bridges and starring Michael J. Fox, Kiefer Sutherland, Phoebe Cates, Dianne Wiest and Jason Robards, based on the novel by Jay McInerney, who also wrote the screenplay. It was the last film directed by Bridges before his death in 1993.
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Originally from Pennsylvania, Jamie Conway (Michael J. Fox) works as a fact-checker for a major New York magazine, but because he spends his nights partying with his glib best friend (Kiefer Sutherland) and his frequent cocaine abuse, he's on the verge of getting fired by his boss, Clara Tillinghast (Frances Sternhagen). His wife Amanda, a fast-rising model (Phoebe Cates), just left him; he's still reeling from the death of his mother (Dianne Wiest) a year earlier; and he's obsessed with a tabloid story about a pregnant woman in a coma. The movie captures some of the glossy chaos and decadence of the New York nightlife during the 1980s and also its look at a man desperately trying to escape the pain in his life.Actors
Michael J. Fox
(Jamie)
Kiefer Sutherland
(Tad)
Phoebe Cates
(Amanda)
Frances Sternhagen
(Clara)
Swoosie Kurtz
(Megan)
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