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    Bright Lights, Big City (1988)

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    You are a painfully dated 1984 novel by Jay McInerney. You are about the coke-fuelled nightlife of emotionally dead New York magazine fact checkers.

    You inspire an embarrassingly moronic 1988 movie starring Michael J Fox (You can at least be thankful you are not Doc Hollywood).

    You are written in the rare and annoying second-person present narrative form.

    Fox comes of age in this grim descent into yuppie hell. As a nice country boy hypnotized by the glitter of the Big Apple, he experiences life in the fast lane, sweats bullets, falls in with the cocaine crowd, and almost self-destructs.

    While his life falls apart, Kiefer Sutherland, as his coke-sniffing pal, Dianne Wiest, as his dying mother, and Jason Robards, as his pickled boss, all lend excellent support, but it’s a newly matured Mr Fox who makes this movie seem like Oz photographed through the bottom of a double vodka martini.

    Jamie Conway
    Michael J. Fox
    Tad Allagash
    Kiefer Sutherland
    Amanda
    Phoebe Cates
    Megan
    Swoosie Kurtz
    Clara Tillinghast
    Frances Sternhagen
    Vicky
    Tracy Pollan
    Mr. Vogel
    John Houseman
    Mother
    Dianne Wiest
    Alex Hardy
    Jason Robards
    Ferret Man
    William Hickey
    Michael
    Charlie Schlatter
    Rittenhouse
    David Warrilow
    Yasu Wade
    Alec Mapa
    Kathy
    Gina Belafonte
    Rich Vanier
    Sam Robards
    Stevie
    Bernard Zette
    Theresa
    Jessica Lundy
    Elaine
    Kelly Lynch
    Barbara
    Annabelle Gurwitch
    Walter Tyler
    Russell Horton

    Director
    James Bridges

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