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Bright Lights, Big City (film)

Bright Lights, Big City
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Theatrical release poster
Directed by James Bridges
Produced by Mark Rosenberg
Sydney Pollack
Screenplay by Jay McInerney
Based on Bright Lights, Big City
by Jay McInerney
Starring
Music by Donald Fagen, Rob Mounsey
Cinematography Gordon Willis
Edited by John Bloom
Production
company
Distributed by United Artists
Release date
  • April 1, 1988 (1988-04-01) (North America)
Running time
107 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $25 million
Box office $16,118,077
Bright Lights, Big City: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
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Soundtrack album by Various artists
Released 1988
Length 49:14
Label Warner Bros.
Producer Joel Sill (Compilation producer)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 4.5/5 stars

Bright Lights, Big City is a 1988 American drama film directed by James Bridges, starring Michael J. Fox, Kiefer Sutherland, Phoebe Cates, Dianne Wiest and Jason Robards, and based on the novel by Jay McInerney, who also wrote the screenplay. It was the last film directed by Bridges, who died in 1993.

The film follows one week in the life of 24-year-old Jamie Conway (Michael J. Fox). Originally from Pennsylvania, Jamie works as a fact-checker for a major New York magazine, but because he spends his nights partying with his glib best friend Tad (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 is still reeling from the death of his mother (Dianne Wiest) from cancer a year earlier; and he follows 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 looks at a man desperately trying to escape the pain in his life.

After Jamie gets fired from his job, he goes on a further downward spiral with more cocaine and alcohol abuse. He attempts to go on a date with Tad's cousin Vicky (Tracy Pollan as a favor. Jamie also avoids phone calls from his younger brother Michael (Charlie Schlatter) who has come to New York to look for him. Megan (Swoosie Kurtz) attempts to help him out with finding a new job as well as try to open up about his troubled life and the reason why Amanda left him. After a confrontation with Michael, and attending a party where Amanda is in attendance, Jamie finally decides to open up and come clean with himself before he ends up either dead or in jail. He phones Vicky and tells her that he and his brother Michael helped their dying mother commit suicide to end her suffering. Jamie refuses Tad's offer of more drugs and women to spend time with and leaves the party. Jamie wonders the streets until dawn when he decides that today will be a better day to get his life back on track.


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