- Network: Lifetime
- Series Premiere Date: Jun 29, 2013
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A true-life movie so good, so well-written and yet sleazy enough to satisfy even the cheesiest viewers among us.
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Bruckner takes on the role with gusto, and she and Harron together create someone whose unthinking commitment to the pursuit of “F-U-N” (in Anna’s phrasing) achieves something close to sublimity.
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The end result isn’t a very good biopic and certainly not a noble one.
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The bad wigs and fluctuating accents are counteracted by Mary Harron's dream-like direction, and the emphasis on plot points rather than character development is occasionally shaken by some of the noteworthy performances (such as Virginia Madsen as Smith's hard-bitten mother).
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As guilty pleasures go, this one certainly doesn’t lack for moments at which to hoot.
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It’s a bleak and predictable story, not just because of where it took Anna Nicole, but because of where it took those around her.
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Anna Nicole has an extraordinarily hazy point of view, tonally sympathetic to Smith but unwilling to explore any of the details, sloppy but particularizing, that might mitigate and humanize her increasingly terrible behavior.
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There's virtually no intelligent or convincing exploration of character in the film, beyond the shopworn theory that she craved fame to validate herself, but traded whatever "self" she had to get it.
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The only way to get through the whole thing is to take a shot of peach schnapps whenever Smith blows kisses, poledances, or trips and falls down.
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It’s storytelling at its most shallow and unsatisfying.