IMDb - Bright Lights, Big City (1988)

The film adaptation of Jay McInerney's best-selling novel stars Michael J. Fox as yuppie New Yorker Jamie Conway, an aspiring writer whose life has fallen apart: His mother (Dianne Wiest) has died, and his model wife (Phoebe Cates) has just left him. Nightly, Jamie seeks solace in cocaine, alcohol, and the glittery nightclub scene, becoming completely immersed in the decadence and debauchery of 1980s upwardly mobile Manhattan. With the help of his hard-partying debutante friend, Tad (Kiefer Sutherland), Jamie can barely see straight, making it increasingly difficult to make his way to his unfulfilling job as a fa...
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ct checker at a downtown lifestyle magazine. As Jamie becomes more and more consumed with his nightly routine and his own severe depression, he is fired from his job and forced to make a choice: either continue his downward spiral or examine his life--and change it for the better. Bright Lights, Big City is a moving drama that colorfully explores the vivid era that writer Jay McInerney helped to immortalize. Fox shines, especially in a long monologue that is fascinating to watch.
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Jamie Conway is een ambitieuze beginnende schrijver die het platteland van Kansas inruilt voor de indrukwekkende skyline van Manhattan en het verleidelijke maar slopende nachtleven dat achter deze façade schuilgaat. Omdat de sociale regels van de schrijversscène dat voorschrijven en hij zijn netwerk uit wil breiden stort Jamie zich in de wilde wereld van uitzinnige feesten en drugs. Hij wordt voortdurend gedwongen om zijn grenzen te verleggen en betaalt daarvoor een hoge prijs.

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