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Bright Lights, Big City
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| Bright Lights, Big City | |
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 Bright Lights, Big City movie poster |
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| Directed by | James Bridges |
| Produced by | Jack Larson Sydney Pollack Mark Rosenberg |
| Written by | Jay McInerney |
| Starring | Michael J. Fox Kiefer Sutherland Phoebe Cates and Dianne Wiest |
| Music by | Donald Fagen Prince (song "Good Love") |
| Cinematography | Gordon Willis |
| Editing by | George Berndt John Bloom |
| Distributed by | United Artists (theatrical) MGM Home Entertainment (home video) |
| Release date(s) | April 1, 1988 |
| Running time | 110 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
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Bright Lights, Big City is a 1988 film staring Michael J. Fox, Kiefer Sutherland and Phoebe Cates.
Michael J. Fox plays a sympathetic cocaine addict in the movie of Jay McInerney's popular novel Bright Lights, Big City, the book that famously chronicled the coke- and cash-fueled era of the 1980s. Originally from Pennsylvania, Jamie Conway (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), he's on the verge of getting fired. His wife, 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 of the time and of a man desperately trying to escape the pain in his life.
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