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Isn't She Great

  • Director: Andrew Bergman
  • AMG Rating: star
  • Genre: Comedy Drama
  • Movie Type: Showbiz Comedy, Biopic
  • Themes: Social Climbing, Writer's Life, Rags To Riches
  • Main Cast: Bette Midler, Nathan Lane, Stockard Channing, David Hyde Pierce, John Cleese
  • Release Year: 2000
  • Country: US
  • Run Time: 93 minutes
  • MPAA Rating: R

Plot

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 alcohol and a series of free-wheeling affairs, although she stayed with her husband Irving Mansfield until her death in 1974 at the age of 56. Isn't She Great is a screen biography that focuses on Susann's roller-coaster literary career, with Bette Midler as Susann and Nathan Lane as Mansfield; David Hyde Pierce, Stockard Channing, John Cleese, and Sarah Jessica Parker round out the supporting cast. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Cast

John Larroquette - Maury Manning; Amanda Peet - Debbie Klausman; David Lawrence - Steve Lawrence; Debbie Gravitte - Eydie Gorme; Jack Eagle

Credit

Raymond DuPuis - Art Director, Rosina Bucci - Casting, Elite Productions - Casting, Julie Weiss - Costume Designer, Glen Trotiner - First Assistant Director, Andrew Bergman - Director, Barry Malkin - Editor, Mark Gordon - Executive Producer, Ted Kurdyla - Executive Producer, Gary Levinsohn - Executive Producer, Burt Bacharach - Composer (Music Score), Burt Bacharach - Musical Arrangement, Hal David - Songwriter, Linda de Vetta - Makeup, Stuart Wurtzel - Production Designer, Karl Walter Lindenlaub - Cinematographer, Mike Lobell - Producer, Susan MacQuarrie - Set Designer, Amy Burt - Set Designer, Don Cohen - Sound/Sound Designer, Paul Rudnick - Screenwriter, George De Titta, Jr. - Set Decorator, Michael Korda - Short Story Author

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Isn't She Great is a 2000 American biographical film.

Isn't She Great
Directed by Andrew Bergman
Produced by Mike Lobell
Written by Paul Rudnick (screenplay) based on material by Michael Korda (magazine article)
Starring Bette Midler
Nathan Lane
Stockard Channing
David Hyde Pierce
John Cleese
John Larroquette
Amanda Peet
Christopher McDonald
Debbie Shapiro
Paul Benedict
Music by Burt Bacharach
Cinematography Karl Walter Lindenlaub
Editing by Barry Malkin
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release date(s) January 28, 2000 (US)
Running time 95 min.
Country  United States
Language English
Budget $36 million
Gross revenue $2,954,405

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 Svengali-like 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 million [1].

The film has been released on DVD.

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