Rated or Dated: Postcards from the Edge (1990)

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Standard Issue

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 3 September 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Is there anything Meryl Streep and/or Shirley MacLaine can’t do? It's a question we return to, as we settle down with Mike Nichol’s 1990 dramedy, based on Carrie Fisher’s semi-autobiographical novel of the same name. But to what extent is it based on Fisher’s real-life relationship with her mum, Debbie Reynolds? How well does it reflect issues around addiction? And, another question we return to: what is Roger Ebert even on about? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Brated or Dated.
0:10.9	I'm Hannah Dunleavy and I am joined today by
0:14.9	We are all together again.
0:17.8	Mickey Noonan.
0:18.7	We three witches have come together to help a bubble toilet trouble.
0:22.5	Hello.
0:23.8	Are you enjoying it on them all?
0:25.4	It's lovely.
0:26.2	It's lovely.
0:26.7	It's windy, but I quite like the fresh air.
0:30.3	And pick out of this week's film, Jen Offord.
0:33.6	Hello.
0:34.3	Hello, Hannah.
0:34.9	Hello, Mickey.
0:35.7	It's good to be back.
0:38.9	Jen, is there anything that Merrill Street can't do?
0:42.7	Disgust.
0:43.5	Is there anything that Merrill Street can't do?
0:46.0	Well, this week we watched Merrill Street Vehicle, shall we say.
0:53.6	1990s postcards from the edge.
0:55.8	So in terms of credentials, man has this one got some chops?
1:00.3	It's based on Carrie Fisher's 1987 semi-autobiographical novel of the same name.
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