Bright Lights, Big City

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Bright Lights, Big City
Image:Bright Lights Big City.jpg Bright Lights, Big City movie poster
Directed by	James Bridges
Produced by	Jack Larson Sydney Pollack Mark Rosenberg
Written by	Jay McInerney
Starring	Michael J. Fox Kiefer Sutherland Phoebe Cates and Dianne Weist
Music by	Donald Fagen Prince (song "Good Love")
Release date(s)	1988
Running time	110 minutes
Country	USA
Language	English
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For the 1984 novel, see Bright Lights, Big City (novel)

Bright Lights, Big City is a 1988 film staring Michael J. Fox, Kiefer Sutherland and Phoebe Cates.

Michael J. Fox plays a sympathetic cocaine addict 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) 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. The movie captures some of the glossy chaos of the time and of a man desperately trying to escape the pain in his life.