Bright Lights, Big City

Bright Lights, Big City1988

Director: James Bridges
Stars: Michael J. Fox, Kiefer Sutherland, Phoebe Cates, Swoosie Kurtz, Frances Sternhagen
Genre: Drama
Rating: R (Restricted)
Runtime: 107 minutes

Michael J. Fox plays the most sympathetic cocaine addict you've ever seen 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. Jamie Conway (Fox) work… more »



It’s 6am on the island of Manhattan. In the dawn’s early light you can imagine the first ship from the old world sailing slowly up the biggest river they’ve ever seen. That was almost how you felt the first time you saw The City, from the window of a Greyhound. Like you were looking at a new world waiting to be discovered. And that’s how you see it now. But you have to go slow. You’ll have to learn everything, all over again.

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