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397:. He finally decides to open up and come clean with himself before he ends up either dead or in jail. Jamie phones Vicky using an adjacent phone to the bathroom and starts talking, revealing to Vicky that he and his brother Michael helped their dying mother kill herself to end her suffering. Vicky offers Jamie empathy and calm, and tells him to call her any time he needs to talk. Jamie then exits the bathroom and declines Tad's offer to spend more time together, declaring out loud "You know what I just realized? You and Amanda are perfect for each other", and leaving the party. 643:
of how different it was from the novel. McInerney has said that Cole wrote all the drugs out of the script while Cole said that he did this on instructions from Pollack, who was worried that the film would hurt Fox's wholesome image with audiences. Cole recalls, "There was definitely pressure and concern at that time about how Michael was seen by America." The studio announced that "a more experienced director" was needed as a result of an impending strike by the
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Dianne Wiest. The new cast members read the novel because there was no script at the time. The strike forced the production to shoot in seven weeks and use McInerney's first draft, which Bridges liked the best. Bridges worked on the script on weekends with McInerney, who was enlisted to help with revisions. The two agreed to share screenwriting credit but the
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The cocaine that Fox snorts in the film was a prop called milk sugar. The filmmakers shot two different endings—one where Fox's character decides to start his life all over but is vague with what he specifically plans to do and an alternative one, to please the studio, where he has finished writing a
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by mid-July, giving Chopra only ten weeks to finish the film. Studio executives did not like what Chopra was shooting and, a week into filming, the studio's chairman and its president of production flew from L.A. to New York City to check on the film. Neither had read the script and both were unaware
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After getting fired from his job, Jamie goes on a further downward spiral with more substance and alcohol abuse. Jamie's maternal co-worker Megan attempts to help him find a new job, as well as open up during a dinner about his troubled life and the reason Amanda left him. Jamie reveals that he had a
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and Mark Rosenberg took over. They hired writer Julie Hickson to write a script. Cruise and Schumacher grew tired of waiting for a workable script, but before they could be replaced, Weintraub left United Artists. The project became entangled in a complicated settlement with the studio, months being
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In seven days, Bridges wrote a new draft bringing back the darker elements of the novel such as the main character's heavy drinking and drug abuse and replaced six actors, casting instead Jason Robards, John Houseman, Swoosie Kurtz, Frances Sternhagen, and Tracy Pollan, while keeping Sutherland and
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Michael arrives at his apartment and lets himself in, surprising Jamie when he comes in second. Jamie reacts angrily at Michael's claim that he has been ignoring his family since the death of their mother, and refuses to talk about his life or feelings. During the argument, Tad calls Jamie and asks
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was hired to co-write the script, with her husband Tom Cole, and also direct it. She had her agent send a copy of McInerney's novel to Michael J. Fox. The actor won the leading role and, at his request, the part of Tad Allagash went to fellow Canadian Kiefer Sutherland. Fox's casting increased the
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was offered first refusal on the script while McInerney and Schumacher were attempting to capture the novel's distinctive voice. McInerney, Cruise and Schumacher scouted locations in New York City and checked out the atmosphere of the club scenes described in the novel. At one point,
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budget to $ 15 million and principal photography was moved to New York City. The producers hired a crew, many of whom had worked with Pollack, while Chopra brought along the cinematographer from her first film,
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showed a gift for light comedy, is too stylized a performer for the heavier stuff; he has no natural weight. In addition, Fox shows a reluctance to let the audience see him in an unflattering light". However,
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that he can talk to the woman's "Coma Baby" while repeatedly asking him to come out of his mother's body. Jamie's story captures some of the glossy chaos and decadence of
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have made Jamie frequently late for work and not finishing assignments on time. As a result, he is on the verge of getting fired by his stern boss, Clara Tillinghast.
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praised the actor's performance: "Fox is very good in the central role (he has a long drunken monologue that is the best thing he has ever done in a movie)".
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him to come to a party, and when Jamie refuses Tad goads him revealing that the party is at Amanda's (and her new photographer husband) house in New York.
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hard time adjusting to the big city at first, and balancing his marriage to Amanda, the death of his mother and his new job left him with
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Jamie is asked to go on a date with Tad's cousin Vicky as a favor to Tad so he could, in turn, have a fling with a woman he claims is a
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felt that the film, "arrives... looking like something that has been kicking around too long in the dead-letter office".
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upstate, sharing a kiss with Jamie before leaving, and making him feel genuinely happy for the first time in years.
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Jamie wanders the streets until dawn, when he stops by a big bakery's loading zone and trades his sunglasses for a
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directing. McInerney wrote a draft of the screenplay and, soon afterward, Schumacher started rewriting it. Actor
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was interested in adapting it into a film. He met with McInerney while he was still working on the screenplay.
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At the party, Tad is so intoxicated that he doesn't seem to realize that a woman he is flirting with is a
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Godfrey, Stephen (February 26, 1988). "Some people have a terrible resentment of early success".
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lost before it finally stayed at United Artists. A decision was made to shoot the film in
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The film follows one week in the life of 24-year-old Jamie Conway. Originally from
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when he became chief executive there. The film needed a new producer so
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The film received mixed reviews from critics and has a 57% rating on
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was released on April 1, 1988, in 1,196 theaters, and grossed
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Ansen, David (April 4, 1988). "Coke, Ghosts and Paranoia".
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with a new girlfriend who is proud of what he has written.
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Index


James Bridges
Jay McInerney
Bright Lights, Big City
Mark Rosenberg
Sydney Pollack
Michael J. Fox
Kiefer Sutherland
Phoebe Cates
Dianne Wiest
Gordon Willis
John Bloom
Donald Fagen
Rob Mounsey
Mirage
United Artists
tragic
drama
James Bridges
Michael J. Fox
Kiefer Sutherland
Phoebe Cates
Dianne Wiest
Jason Robards
the novel
Jay McInerney
Pennsylvania
fact-checker
New York City
magazine

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