postcards from the edge
cast: meryl streep, shirley maclaine, dennis quaid, gene hackman
what imdb says: Substance-addicted Hollywood actress Suzanne Vale is on the skids. After a spell at a detox centre her film company insists as a condition of continuing to employ her that she live with her mother

( Thank GOD I got sober now so I can be hyper-conscious for this series of humiliations. )

truly, madly, deeply
cast: alan rickman, juliet stevenson
what imdb says: Nina, an interpreter, is beside herself with grief at the recent death of her boyfriend, Jamie, a cellist. When it appears that she is no longer able to cope with life, Jamie reappears as a "ghost" and the couple are reconciled.

( You're dead and you're still into party politics? )