4 reviews
Many good moments in this Bio Pic
- rdooley123
- Aug 18, 2006
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Over the Top, Larger than Life
- JamesHitchcock
- Jul 10, 2016
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This bio is as campy as anything Jacqueline Susann ever wrote.
This bio is as campy and trashy as anything jacqueline Susann ever wrote. Michele Lee does an excellent job in her impersonation of Susann. Unlike Bette Midler's recent performance as Jackie in the movie "Isn't She Great", Lee is believable and makes the audience care. As an added treat, Barbara Parkins show up as Susann's book editor and gets to mutter the line, "Where is Barbara Parkins?" as she watches a scene from "Valley of the Dolls" be filmed. Whether you are a Jacqueline Susann fan or not, this one is worth checking out.
Susann would have loved it!
Susann would have loved it!
Mediocre at best.
This is better then the Bette Midler vehicle but still doesn't work in my opinion. Michelle Lee looks a lot more like Susann then Bette Midler but she doesn't have Susann's spark, you need both. Lee produced this I assume because she wanted to play Susann. The same thing happened with Jessica Lange in the Patsy Cline story, she produced it, she played it, it didn't work,totally miscast. Bottom line: watchable but a missing something.
- marblehead-1
- Nov 24, 2002
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