She played major roles in other filmsincluding Irreconcilable Differences (1984) and two Stephen King adaptations, Firestarter (1984) and Cat's Eye (1985)-but her career was overshadowed in the late 1980s by her highly publicized bouts with alcohol and drugs, an eerie echo of her family's troubled history. 1989 saw the release of Far From Home her first adolescent movie role. In 1990 she coauthored a book about her substance dependencies and subsequent rehabilitation, and in 1992 she made further news by posing nude for a national magazine to promote her sexually charged movie Poison Ivy (1992). That same year she had a provocative (but brief) part as a murder witness in The Sketch Artist co-starred in the well-received independent feature Guncrazy (1992), and was one of three actresses to play the headline-making "Long Island Lolita" in the telefilm The Amy Fisher Story (1993). She then appeared in a provocative series of print ads for Guess Jeans. She had a sexy cameo in Wayne's World 2 (1993), then costarred in the distaff Western Bad Girls (1994). Her star rose dramatically in 1995 with the release of Boys on the Side, Mad Love and Batman Forever.