"Where is this going..." was my initial thought about 30 minutes in. I like to preface by stating: I am a Brittany Murphy fan, and have 17 of her films on DVD; my favorites being "The Ramen Girl (2008)", "The Dead Girl (2006)", and "Don't Say a Word (2001)".
I do not really care for Lifetime films, mainly because they usually over exaggerate the elements of the characters; whether they are based on real people, or not -- this film is no different.
Everyone has seen this film before because it's the same as every other exposé on a celebrity's life in made-for-television productions. And, in that vein...there's no heart to this film. Whether it focuses on the minute details of Brittany Murphy's life -- the good/bad -- is irrelevant because, like most films of this accord, it primarily focuses on the tragedy of the person's life rather than on their life as a whole.
It starts you off in that vein: "The mysterious death of Brittany Murphy" with a fading voice of "Was she poisoned?" Which, from then on, is the focus of her story; the tribulations in her life: she was the "fat" girl, she's attacked by paparazzi (yet the guardian angel throughout is her future husband as a photographer/paparazzi), everyone is out to ruin her, she's the poor little hurt girl, the best friend since childhood she may have to let go etc.,
Don't get me wrong -- it does show some good moments in her life but it's all mainly in the beginning, and the rest is just one huge drama after another.
The music doesn't help. A cross between elevator music, and what you'd hear in a lackluster bar/pub.
I did come in with low expectations based on past experience in watching these types of films; and perhaps that's a detractor, and then again, perhaps not because the further it got towards the ending the evermore it got over-the-top dramatic. Some lives are dramatic but it seems with these "Hallmark" type films -- that's all they ever are; and that's fantasy.
2/10
I do not really care for Lifetime films, mainly because they usually over exaggerate the elements of the characters; whether they are based on real people, or not -- this film is no different.
Everyone has seen this film before because it's the same as every other exposé on a celebrity's life in made-for-television productions. And, in that vein...there's no heart to this film. Whether it focuses on the minute details of Brittany Murphy's life -- the good/bad -- is irrelevant because, like most films of this accord, it primarily focuses on the tragedy of the person's life rather than on their life as a whole.
It starts you off in that vein: "The mysterious death of Brittany Murphy" with a fading voice of "Was she poisoned?" Which, from then on, is the focus of her story; the tribulations in her life: she was the "fat" girl, she's attacked by paparazzi (yet the guardian angel throughout is her future husband as a photographer/paparazzi), everyone is out to ruin her, she's the poor little hurt girl, the best friend since childhood she may have to let go etc.,
Don't get me wrong -- it does show some good moments in her life but it's all mainly in the beginning, and the rest is just one huge drama after another.
The music doesn't help. A cross between elevator music, and what you'd hear in a lackluster bar/pub.
I did come in with low expectations based on past experience in watching these types of films; and perhaps that's a detractor, and then again, perhaps not because the further it got towards the ending the evermore it got over-the-top dramatic. Some lives are dramatic but it seems with these "Hallmark" type films -- that's all they ever are; and that's fantasy.
2/10
