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Release Date: 2000 Cast: Christopher McDonald, Bette Midler, Dina Waters, John Larroquette, Leslie Barnette, David Hyde Pierce, Paul Benedict, Stockard Channing, Jeffrey Ross, Amanda Peet, John Cleese, Terence Ross ...MORE
Cast: Christopher McDonald, Bette Midler, Dina Waters, John Larroquette, Leslie Barnette, David Hyde Pierce, Paul Benedict, Stockard Channing, Jeffrey Ross, Amanda Peet, John Cleese, Terence Ross, Nathan Lane ...LESS
Categories: Movies, Biography, Japanese Movies, Comedy-drama, Comedy, Period piece, Biopic [feature], Biographical film Isn't She Great is a 2000 American biographical film.
A highly fictionalized account of the life and career of best-selling author Jacqueline Susann, the Universal Pictures release focuses on her early struggles as an aspiring actress relentlessly hungry for fame, her relationship with press agent husband Irving Mansfield, with whom she had an institutionalized autistic son, her success as the author of Valley of the Dolls, and her battle with and subsequent death from breast cancer.
Paul Rudnick's screenplay, based on a 1995 New Yorker profile by Michael Korda, was directed by Andrew... MORE
Isn't She Great is a 2000 American biographical film.
A highly fictionalized account of the life and career of best-selling author Jacqueline Susann, the Universal Pictures release focuses on her early struggles as an aspiring actress relentlessly hungry for fame, her relationship with press agent husband Irving Mansfield, with whom she had an institutionalized autistic son, her success as the author of Valley of the Dolls, and her battle with and subsequent death from breast cancer.
Paul Rudnick's screenplay, based on a 1995 New Yorker profile by Michael Korda, was directed by Andrew Bergman. The cast includes Bette Midler as Susann, Nathan Lane as Mansfield, Stockard Channing as Susann's gal pal Florence Maybelle, David Hyde Pierce as book editor Michael Hastings, and John Cleese as publisher Henry Marcus, with John Larroquette, Amanda Peet, Christopher McDonald, Debbie Shapiro, and Paul Benedict in supporting roles.
Midler was nominated for a Worst Actress Golden Raspberry Award. Opening in 750 US theatres on January 28, 2000, it was assaulted by the critics and shunned by the public, and domestically earned only $2,954,405 at the box office, far less than its cost of $36 LESS
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