Upon first viewing, it's MacLaine's performance that stands out as Doris is a bold, in-your-face, larger-than-life personality prone to hopping up on any given piano and belting out a torch song. Neither task is made easier by living with her mother, Hollywood icon Doris Mann (Shirley MacLaine, based on Fisher's own mother, Debbie Reynolds). Substance-addicted actress Suzanne Vale (Streep), loosely based on the life of Carrie Fisher, who wrote both the screenplay and the book on which this film is based, struggles to maintain her sobriety and reclaim her Hollywood status after one too many tumbles off the wagon. Those two warring forces inside Eleanor converge in the film's most dynamic scene: After Raymond majorly disappoints his mother, Streep chomps down on a piece of ice with an intention so terrifying and dismissive, it sends a shiver up your spine. There's the outward HBIC attitude she wants the world to see (a Streep speciality) and the hidden infatuation with her son that manifests in an overly affectionate relationship. There is so much deliciousness at work with Streep's portrayal of this power-hungry mother, who, following her husband's death, has become unhealthily fixated on her son and his ascent up the political ladder. representative from New York, who, through her doing, is forced into becoming a vice presidential candidate - is a character so devious and manipulative, Lady MacBeth would have been taken aback. Streep's senator, also the mother to Raymond Shaw (Liev Schreiber) - a U.S.
The second adaptation of Richard Condon's 1959 novel - the first was in 1962 with Angela Lansbury in this role - updates the action from the Cold War to the Iraq War, but proves brainwashing fears are timeless.
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