Lifetime's Anna Nicole Smith movie

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 6/30/13 at 12:15am

Did anyone watch this? I'm watching the rerun now, and this is Lifetime at its most ridiculous, campy, and entertainingly disastrous.

A preview: there is a moment where she practices her pole dancing moves on a tetherball pole in a park in front of her child. I mean...

And everything about Virginia Madsen in this movie is so wrong its right.

[AC126748]

Posted: 6/30/13 at 7:33am

I watched it. Mostly, I just found it boring.

The film didn't know if it wanted to be a serious biography, melodrama, or camp comedy. It ends up somewhere between the three. The conceit of "Anna Nicole" talking to young Vicki Lynn from the great beyond was laughable and derivative--reminded me of Norma Jean & Marilyn. Mary Harron has never been a terribly inspired director, and the flaws here really show why.

Agnes Bruckner is a terrific actress (see Blue Car if you haven't), but she's miscast as Anna Nicole--at least, in this version of the story. She's a natural presence, so basically everything that takes place after Vicki Lynn becomes Anna Nicole seems forced. Martin Landau and Cary Elwes were inspired casting as J. Howard and E. Pierce, though. Virginia Madsen--the less said...

Overall: if you were looking for a compelling biography of a flawed, tragic woman, or if you were looking for a few cheap laughs, you'd be disappointed either way.

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 7/1/13 at 11:36pm

See, AC, that's exactly what I thought about LIZ & DICK. It wasn't even entertainingly bad. It was just boring as all hell. But I was entertained for most of ANNA NICOLE...even if it was for all the wrong reasons.

[Jane2]

Posted: 7/1/13 at 11:38pm

I agree with boring. It wasn't funny, wasn't dramatic, wasn't campy, nothing.

[Jim Colyer]

Posted: 7/2/13 at 10:11am

A tragic woman, Matilyn wannabe!

[degrassifan]

Posted: 7/2/13 at 11:59pm

I watched it when it premiered. It was boring, but wayyyy better than Liz & Dick, which is kind of sad.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 7/3/13 at 12:23am

I caught the last half. Mary Harron directed this? That depresses me--while her film work is spotty (I actually liked Moth Diaries) she usually at least makes a visually compelling film, even her past tv work with Six Feet Under episodes, etc.

Maybe they should have just filmed the opera. That said, it did keep me entertained unlike Liz and Dick.