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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 36 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 18, 2000
- Originally Released: 2000
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Bette Midler, Stockard Channing & Nathan Lane | |
Performer: | David Hyde Pierce, Amanda Peet, John Cleese, Jason Fuchs, John Larroquette, Sarah Jessica Parker & Frank Vincent | |
Directed by | Andrew Bergman | |
Edited by | Barry Malkin | |
Screenwriting by | Paul Rudnick | |
Composition by | Burt Bacharach | |
Produced by | Mike Lobell | |
Director of Photography: | Karl Walter Lindenlaub |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Some funny moments and strong cast, but ultimately a disappointing story with little depth or interest.
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CinemaSense.Com
Rating: D --
The most notable aspect of this trashy (but unenjoyable) biopic of Jacquleine Susann, Valley of the Doll's best-selling author, is its running time (93 minutes); Bette Midler and Nathan Lane give two of their worst and broadest performances.
Variety
Lane's sweetness, his naughty wiliness and his dapper charm all make his performance wonderful to watch.
Salon.com
Working in campy harmony, director Bergman and writer Paul Rudnick milk the jokes and the pathos out of every scene, brought to life by the excellent supporting ensemble.
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E! Online
Isn't She Great is anything but.
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Boxoffice Magazine
Rating: 1/4 --
Here is a movie that needed great trash, great sex and great gossip, and at all the crucial moments Susann is talking to a tree.
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Chicago Sun-Times
...No one is more suited to playing a tease of a diva than Ms. Midler...
New York Times
Product Description:
Bette Midler gives her usual steller performance in ISN'T SHE GREAT, the story of Jacqueline Susann, pop icon and author of the runaway 1960s bestseller VALLEY OF THE DOLLS. When manager Irving Mansfield (Nathan Lane) meets his beloved, flamboyant Jackie, she is down-and-out, a failed Broadway actress who has just been dumped by her no-good husband. She's "too intense" for any roles she tries out for, and she longs to be famous. Irving longs for her, and vows to make her dream come true. Based on a New Yorker magazine piece by Michael Korda (who is one of Susann's editors) this entertaining biopic covers the milestones of Susann's unusual career and life, culminating in the unorthodox writing of the much-rejected novel that went on to become a spectacular bestseller, the birth of her autistic son, and her courageous and secretive battle with breast cancer. VALLEY OF THE DOLLS (made into a film starring Patty Duke and Sharon Tate) explored in detail the degrading downside of celebrity, but in life, Susann is as happy as a pig in mud with her own fame. Stockard Channing is brilliantly funny as Susann's best friend Florence, a thoroughly self-absorbed actress, and John Cleese puts in a hilarious performance as "hipster" publisher Henry Marcus. Meanwhile, Susann's uptight editor Michael Hastings (David Hyde-Pierce), becomes nearly paralyzed with horror when he realizes that her scandalous novel is going to be published.
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- UPC: 025192070822
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