These Are The 30 Greatest Performances of Meryl Streep’s Iconic Career

24. Postcards From the Edge (1990)

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Can you think of a better on-screen mother-daughter duo than Streep and the legendary Shirley MacLaine? Probably not. The 1990 film, adapted by Carrie Fisher from her own novel, is hilarious and absurd. It wrestles with something I’ve spent my whole life feeling uncomfortable about: The phenomenon of totally adoring your mother, but occasionally feeling sucked into her massive orbit. Streep is alternately not quite passive and volcanic enough to play Carrie Fisher, but she still earned her ninth Oscar nomination with this adaptation of Fisher’s life in Hollywood (with her mother Debbie Reynolds). Streep, in her most full-blown comic performance up to that point, plays Suzanne Vale — a popular movie actress well on her way to a Hollywood crack-up.