![]() ![]() In New York, she finds overnight success as a model and drifts away from him. The movie deliberately never makes clear what, if anything, they truly had to share. He once lived in Kansas City and dreamed of becoming a writer, and it was there he met and married Amanda ( Phoebe Cates), his pretty young wife. Fox, red-eyed, puffy-faced and trembling with fear every morning when the telephone rings. His "life" consists, in fact, of the brief window that opens every day between his hangover and oblivion. There are no other parts of his life worth serious discussion. ![]() Is he (a) an alcoholic, using the coke so he can stay awake and drink more? Or (b) a cokehead, using the booze to level off? Those are the two choices on Jamie's multiple-part exam. He drinks prodigious amounts of booze, punctuated by cocaine. ![]() He's together enough to sit in a club and drink double vodkas and engage in absentminded conversation with transparent people. ![]() The irony is that he still looks halfway okay, if you don't look too hard. It takes place over the course of a week or so, a chaotic week in which people, events and even whole days drift in and out of focus. "Bright Lights, Big City" is the record of Jamie's search for the bottom. ![]()
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