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Bright Lights, Big City
Drama - 1988
5.7
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A disillusioned young writer living in New York City turns to drugs and drinking to block out the memories of his dead mother and estranged wife.
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Rated:
R
Runtime:
107 min
Release date:
1 Apr 1988
Country:
JP, US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$25,000,000
Revenue:
$16,118,077
Awards:
2 nominations

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
Along the gruesome road to self-discovery, Bright Lights offers some entertaining, episodic, danceable highlights.
– Desson Thomson,
Washington Post,
1 Jan 2000
fresh:
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).
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
The movie is like a Porsche outfitted with a lawn mower engine; there's not even enough juice to get the machine out of the driveway.
– Hal Hinson,
Washington Post,
1 Jan 2000
fresh:
Mr. Bridges may not have breathed fire into this material, but he has preserved most of its better qualities. He has treated it with intelligence, respect and no undue reverence, assembling a coherent film that resists any hint of exploitation.
– Janet Maslin,
New York Times,
20 May 2003
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