Bright Lights, Big City

…he helmed his last film, Bright Lights, Big City, an intelligent but curiously flat adaptation of the Jay McInerney best seller about the club-and-cocaine scene in 1980s New York City. Two years later Clint Eastwood directed White Hunter, Black Heart, which was based on a script cowritten by Bridges. Diagnosed…

…in The Lost Boys (1987), Bright Lights, Big City (1988), and Ron Howard’s Parenthood (1989), and the latter portrayal earned her Golden Globe and Oscar nominations.