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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- an...( read more  read more... )d cash-fueled era of the 1980s. Jamie Conway (Fox) works as a fact-checker for a major New York magazine, but because he spends his nights partying with his glib best friend (Kiefer Sutherland), he's on the verge of getting fired. His wife, a fast-rising model (Phoebe Cates), just left him; he's still reeling from the death of his mother (Dianne Wiest) a year earlier; and he's obsessed with a tabloid story about a pregnant woman in a coma. Bright Lights, Big City doesn't have much of a plot, but in its meandering way it captures some of the glossy chaos of the time and of a man desperately trying to escape the pain in his life. --Bret Fetzer

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R, 110 min.

Directed by: James Bridges

Release Date: April 1, 1988

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DVD Release Date: August 5, 2003

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Flixster Reviews (180)

  • ashleymh007
    July 16, 2008
    ashleymh007
    This left much to be desired. I think Michael was miscast, but the plot and dialogue wasn't that great either. Some books should not be made into movies.
  • mingsysar
    January 6, 2009
    mingsysar
    I just adore Michael J. Fox.
  • LisaMJ
    May 28, 2008
    LisaMJ
    Okay.
  • ilive4discus
    February 14, 2007
    ilive4discus
    I LOVE MJF!!!
  • raggedydavey
    March 31, 2009
    raggedydavey
    Not an amazing movie, but I can't remember the last time I cried so much as during the scene where he's sitting next to his mother on her death bed.
  • xxxcli213xxx
    December 12, 2008
    xxxcli213xxx
    no thanks not my kinda thing
  • thescarletavenger75
    December 9, 2008
    thescarletavenger75
    I need to see this again.
  • rbndl32
    November 11, 2008
    rbndl32
    This was my coke scare film.
  • MovieAddict13
    October 18, 2008
    MovieAddict13
    This movie is really fun, I like it alot
  • FireAndLightning
    August 26, 2008
    FireAndLightning
    Michael J. Fox and Kiefer Sutherland, awesome! - In another movie. This movie was bad. Didn't give me interest at all.

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