Isn't She Great

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

Infobox Film
name = Isn't She Great


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director = Andrew Bergman
producer = Mike Lobell
writer = 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 = Burt Bacharach
cinematography = Karl Walter Lindenlaub
editing = Barry Malkin
distributor = Universal Pictures
released = January 28 2000 (US)
runtime = 95 min.
country = USA
location =
language = English
budget = $36 million
gross = $2,954,405
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imdb_id = 0141399

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 avoided by the public, and domestically earned only $2,954,405 at the box office, far less than its cost of $36 million [http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/2000/ISNTS.php] .

The film has been released on DVD.

Cast

*Bette Midler – Jacqueline Susann
*Nathan Lane – Irving Mansfield
*Stockard Channing – Florence Maybelle
*David Hyde Pierce – Michael Hastings
*John Cleese – Henry Marcus
*Amanda Peet – Debbie
*John Laroquette – Maury Manning
*Christopher McDonald – Brad Bradburn
*Dina Spybey – Bambi Madison

Awards and Nominations

Nominations

*Razzie Awards: Worst Actress (Bette Midler)

External links

* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0141399/ Internet Movie Database listing]
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E07E1D6123CF93BA15752C0A9669C8B63 New York Times review]
* [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2000/01/28/DD81825.DTL San Francisco Chronicle review]
* [http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20000128/REVIEWS/1280301/1023 Roger Ebert review]