Isn't She Great (2000)
Average Rating: 4/10
Reviews Counted: 61
Fresh: 15 | Rotten: 46
Bland material produces entirely forgettable comic performances.
Average Rating: 3.6/10
Critic Reviews: 23
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 18
Bland material produces entirely forgettable comic performances.
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Jacqueline Susann spent a long career on the edges of show business as an actress and model, but it never really paid off until she quit acting to write her first novel. Valley of the Dolls was a proudly sleazy potboiler that sold 26 million copies and had readers wondering which characters matched up to which real-life show-biz figures. Susann wrote several other successful novels, but fame and fortune didn't make her life any less tumultuous; she had well-publicized problems with drugs and
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Bette Midler
Jacqueline Susann -
Nathan Lane
Irving Mansfield -
Stockard Channing
Florence Maybelle -
David Hyde Pierce
Michael Hastings -
John Cleese
Henry Marcus -
John Larroquette
Maury Manning -
Amanda Peet
Debbie Klausman -
David Lawrence
Steve Lawrence -
Debbie Gravitte
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All Critics (79) | Top Critics (27) | Fresh (16) | Rotten (46) | DVD (8)
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.
Top CriticThe movie is a stinker, but it's not an enjoyable stinker.
The filmmakers don't know what to make of their overblown subject.
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.
A surprisingly warm and engaging entertainment.
Midler's character is empty, boring, selfish.
Every joke and every scene collapses and blows away before it's finished.
gives its heroine all the rough edges of a throw pillow... Susann couldn't write sentiment convincingly and neither can Rudnick.
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