Madonna: Truth or Dare

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Movie Info

"Truth or Dare" is follows Madonna on her 'Blond Ambition' tour, also utilizing interviews with the performer.

Rating:

R (for strong sexual dialogue and situations.)
Genre:

Documentary, Musical & Performing Arts, Special Interest
Directed By:

Alek Keshishian
In Theaters:

May 10, 1991 wide
On Disc/Streaming:

Jul 25, 2000
Runtime:

119 minutes
Studio:

Miramax Films

Cast

Madonna
as Herself

Sandra Bernhard
as Herself

Warren Beatty
as Himself

Oliver Crumes
as Dancer

Al Pacino
as Himself [uncredited]

Donna Delory
as Dancer

Antonio Banderas
as Himself

Sharon Gault
as Herself

Pedro Almodóvar
as Himself

Luis Camacho
as Dancer

Salim Gauwloos
as Dancer

Jose Guitierez
as Dancer

Kevin Costner
as Himself

Niki Harris
as Dancer

Kevin Stea
as Dancer

Gabriel Trupin
as Dancer

Carlton Wilborn
as Dancer

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Critic Reviews for Madonna: Truth or Dare

All Critics (29) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (25) | Rotten (4)

As it stands, Truth Or Dare is useful today largely as a study in marketing.

September 24, 2019 | Rating: B | Full Review…

Noel Murray
AV Club
Top Critic
You may not leave Truth or Dare loving Madonna, but you'll respect her as a force of nature.

September 24, 2019 | Full Review…

Peter Travers
Rolling Stone
Top Critic
Whether you regard her as a symptom or a cure for a culture still locked in its eternal battle between the puritanical and the prurient, Madonna's at the barricades. In Truth or Dare, she's at her button-pushing best.

February 6, 2018 | Full Review…

David Ansen
Newsweek
Top Critic
Immensely pleasurable ...

August 23, 2016 | Full Review…

Melissa Anderson
Village Voice
Top Critic
Quote not available.

April 13, 2012 | Rating: A- | Full Review…

Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly
Top Critic
Although the movie seems happiest when it is retailing potential scandal, its heart is not in sex but in business, and the central value in the film is the work ethic.

January 1, 2000 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…

Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
Top Critic
Feeling at times carefully orchestrated, if you can accept this as part of Madonna's 'any publicity is good publicity' campaign, you'll be fine. And the concert footage is top value.

October 16, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Liz Beardsworth
Empire Magazine
Constant innovation and evolution is both Madonna's workaholic race against time and her relentless pursuit of the perfection she imbues upon her mother.

February 3, 2019 | Rating: A- | Full Review…

Rubin Safaya
Cinemalogue
Isn't quite a documentary and definitely isn't narrative fiction, but is some kind of of narrative written out of the material of the real world.

October 1, 2017 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…

Tim Brayton
Alternate Ending
She invests the character of "Madonna" with silliness, lightness, depth, nastiness - the complexity of a "real" person, who she may or may not be.

September 3, 2016 | Full Review…

Jason Bailey
Flavorwire
In essence, Truth or Dare is less of a concert film than an elaborately constructed exegesis on pop mythmaking and the construction of identity.

August 24, 2016 | Full Review…

Keith Watson
Slant Magazine
In presenting an "honest," unvarnished portrait of herself, Madonna gives her one great performance in a movie.

July 15, 2012 | Full Review…

Richard Knight
Knight at the Movies

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Audience Reviews for Madonna: Truth or Dare

Dec 26, 2014

It's really strange to watch this film and come out with a decided opinion on who Madonna is as a person, what she stands for, and what she cares about. Throughout the film there is this strange, pretentious narration that flits between scenes that are completely oppositional to what happens onscreen. Read more at http://www.bluefairyblog.com/reviews/2015/8/18/double-feature-truth-or-dare-and-part-of-me

Spencer S Super Reviewer
Jan 24, 2009

As many others have said, Warren Beatty steals the show with his comments about Madonna "not wanting to live off camera". Love her or hate her, this is still an interesting look inside Madonna's life.

Juli R Super Reviewer
Jun 08, 2008

I didnt enjoy this at all

Amanda . Super Reviewer
Feb 08, 2008

If this were a sandwich you were served in a restaurant you'd have to send it back because there is too much turd on it. After someone dragged me to see this at the theater no less, I spent most of my time playing the pinball machine in the lobby.

Christopher B Super Reviewer

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Madonna: Truth or Dare Quotes

Himself:	Warren Beatty: [after Madonna declines to talk to her doctor off-camera] She doesn't want to live off-camera, much less talk. There's nothing to say off-camera. Why would you say something if it's off-camera? What point is there existing?
Warren Beatty:	[after Madonna declines to talk to her doctor off-camera] She doesn't want to live off-camera, much less talk. There's nothing to say off-camera. Why would you say something if it's off-camera? What point is there existing?

Herself:

Madonna: [voiceover, as Madonna visits her mother's grave] What I remember most about her was that she was - she was very kind and very gentle and very feminine. I don't know, I guess she seemed like an angel to me, but I suppose everybody thinks their mother's an angel when they're five. I also know she was really religious, so I never really understood why she was taken away from us. It seemed so unfair. I never thought that she had done something wrong, so oftentimes I wondered what I had done wrong.

Madonna:

[voiceover, as Madonna visits her mother's grave] What I remember most about her was that she was - she was very kind and very gentle and very feminine. I don't know, I guess she seemed like an angel to me, but I suppose everybody thinks their mother's an angel when they're five. I also know she was really religious, so I never really understood why she was taken away from us. It seemed so unfair. I never thought that she had done something wrong, so oftentimes I wondered what I had done wrong.

Herself:	Madonna: [makes gagging noises] "Neat"? Anybody who says my show is "neat" has to go.
Madonna:	[makes gagging noises] 'Neat'? Anybody who says my show is 'neat' has to go.

Himself:	Kevin Costner: Thanks for having us. It was really generous.
Kevin Costner:	Thanks for having us. It was really generous.
Herself:	Madonna: Thanks for coming.
Madonna:	Thanks for coming.

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