Bright Lights, Big City

An aspiring writer working at a New York magazine becomes ensnared in the drug and sex-fueled Manhattan nightlife. Eventually he’s forced to confront a painful truths about himself, and his life is threatened due to his hedonistic behavior., Bleak morality tale in which a young researcher in New York City goes off the rails and on to cocaine following his mother’s death and his wife’s desertion of him. After a series of emotional outbursts, pitfalls and job losses due to his drug addiction, he decides to sober up and fight to get his life back into some kind of order., Michael J. Fox and Kiefer Sutherland star in this powerful story of a troubled young man who plunges into the netherworld of Manhattan’s seductive nightlife., A young researcher (Michael J Fox) goes off the rails through grief at his mother’s death and his wife’s desertion in this sobering Manhattan melodrama, based on a novel by Jay McInerny. As his downward spiral continues, he finds himself consuming ever-increasing quantities of cocaine., Michael J. Fox once more makes a courageous effort to shed his nice-guy image in Bright Lights, Big City. Fox plays an impressionable Kansan who comes to the Big Apple to take a job at a major magazine. It isn’t long before he falls into the twin traps of drug and alcohol abuse. His only hope for redemption is in the hands of Vicky (Tracy Pollan), the cousin of his scuzzy drinking buddy Tad (Kiefer Sutherland). Jay McInerney’s bestselling novel does not translate easily to the big screen, but Fox strives hard to please, as do all of his costars. The white stuff snorted by Fox wasn’t really cocaine, but powdered milk. Watch for Frasier’s David Hyde Pierce in a small role and Jason Robards in a significant unbilled cameo., Michael J. Fox stars as a young writer whose inner demons lead him to drink, drugs and the New York club scene. A snapshot of the 1980s., Michael J. Fox stars as a young writer whose inner demons lead him to drink, drugs and the New York club scene. A snapshot of the 1980s based on Jay McInerney’s popular novel.