Bright Lights, Big City is a 1988 drama film starring Michael J. Fox, Kiefer Sutherland and Phoebe Cates, based on the novel of the same name by Jay McInerney. It was the last film directed by James Bridges before his death in 1993. Originally from Pennsylvania, Jamie Conway works as a fact-checker for a major New York magazine, but because he spends his nights partying with his glib best friend and his frequent cocaine abuse, he's on the verge of getting fired by his boss, Clara Tillinghast . His wife Amanda, a fast-rising model , just left him; he's still reeling from the death of his... mother 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 and decadence of the New York nightlife during the 1980s and also its look at a man desperately trying to escape the pain in his life. In 1984, Robert Lawrence, a vice president at Columbia Pictures championed Jay McInerney's novel against resistance from older executives.
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