Georgia O'Keeffe movie on tonight!

[supportivemom]

Posted: 9/19/09 at 5:56pm

It's on Lifetime at 9:00 p.m. (EST)!
Updated On: 9/19/09 at 05:56 PM

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 9/19/09 at 6:18pm

How did I know it would be on Lifetime?

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 9/19/09 at 6:37pm

Thanks for the reminder! I have been looking forward to it!

[Jane2]

Posted: 9/19/09 at 6:54pm

I'm dvr-ing it but I read a negative review in the Post.

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 9/19/09 at 10:47pm

Eh. Didn't think very much of it.

[StockardFan]

Posted: 9/20/09 at 9:11am

I fell asleep with 45 minutes left. Joan Allen was simply the wrong choice. Even when she was supposed to be young, her neck looked all old and wrinkly.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 9/20/09 at 9:13am

So slow...

I turned it off after about 45 minutes.

Disappointing.

[Jane2]

Posted: 9/20/09 at 9:16am

Stockard-that was part of the review I read. They claimed that Allen and Irons were too old and that Chalfont, at 64 was unbelievable as Irons' mother at that age.

[StockardFan]

Posted: 9/20/09 at 1:15pm

I just kept thinking they should have done something like with Drew Barrymore in GG. Cast a younger actress and then aged her with makeup. But I think we had discussed that in another thread earlier in the week too.

I'm not sure how the movie ended, did it go all the way up until her death? When I fell asleep she was in New Mexico with Tyne Daly and her Indian husband and Jeremy Irons was coming to get her? I think? When I woke up the credits were on.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 9/20/09 at 1:57pm

Turns out, she liked vaginas...

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 9/20/09 at 2:08pm

SPOLIERS!


Basically Irons had a heart attack, she came home to care for him. She was commissioned to pain a mural at Radio City which her husband insisted she didn't take enough money for. Then he announced that he was having stomach cramps and they call it a sympathetic pregnancy because his mistress was pregnant and it might be his. Between that and the mural falling behind schedule, she suffered a nervous breakdown. The doctor told her husband it was his fault and to give her space. It took her over a year to paint again. Her husband had a showing and a piece sold to the Met. He bought an apartment for her above his, but she told him she wasn't returning to him. The following scene showed her aged in Santa Fe speaking of her failing eye sight. She said she could still see to the ends of her arms, so she could work. Text came up that said she died in 1986 at 98 at which time she owned more than half of her own works which were to be donated to a museum in New Mexico. Her home was donated as well and parts of the film were shot there.

I thought it was terribly slow starting and really failed to gain much momentum.

Updated On: 9/20/09 at 02:08 PM

[Jane2]

Posted: 9/20/09 at 3:00pm

I'm kind of watching it right now (it's not easy to watch, zzzzz). I'll skip over the previous post for spoilers. I'm trying to regain interest, which I lost almost right away.

[supportivemom]

Posted: 9/20/09 at 3:35pm

Yup- gotta agree with everyone! So disappointed!

[StockardFan]

Posted: 9/20/09 at 6:16pm

Thanks for filling me in, jg2! I doubt I'd sit and watch it again.

Diva.....LOL!