Anna Nicole (2013) 5.4
The life of Anna Nicole Smith, from small town dancer to Playboy centerfold, to her marriage to a billionaire, and her eventual self destruction. Director:Mary Harron |
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Anna Nicole (2013) 5.4
The life of Anna Nicole Smith, from small town dancer to Playboy centerfold, to her marriage to a billionaire, and her eventual self destruction. Director:Mary Harron |
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Agnes Bruckner | ... | ||
Martin Landau | ... |
J. Howard Marshall
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Adam Goldberg | ... | ||
Graham Patrick Martin | ... |
Older Danny
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Cary Elwes | ... |
E. Pierce Marshall
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Virginia Madsen | ... |
Virgie Arthur
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Julia Walters | ... |
7 Year Old Vicky Lynn
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Alexa Blair | ... |
14 Year Old Vicky Lynn
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Luke Donaldson | ... |
Young Danny
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Caleb Barwick | ... |
Middle Danny
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William Day | ... |
Vicky Lynn's Father
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James Allen McCune | ... |
Tommy Smith
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David Dwyer | ... |
Burke Jones
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Al Vicente | ... |
Cole Harris
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Carla Fisher | ... |
Black Dancer
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Anna Nicole Smith was a single mother from Texas who became the biggest supermodel in the world, but her sudden catapult to fame came with a price, as drugs, alcohol and reckless behavior led her down a tragic path. Written by Anonymous
Agnes Brucker is beautiful. More beautiful than Anna Nicole for sure. The prosthetic breasts they add on to her are actually quite good and convincing. I was pretty impressed by that. Agnes' performance here can be measured a couple of different ways: was it good on its own merits and does it pass the George C. Scott test? If you take out the "playing a real person" aspect, her performance was perfectly adequate for your average Lifetime drivel. But if you judge her by whether she accurately captured Anna Nicole, then no she did not. She seemed more often than not like a caricature. Not that Anna Nicole was anything deeper than what we saw. I highly doubt she was. Still, people are people and even the likes of the Kardashians or Anna Nicole Smith don't act off camera like they do on. So when you're portraying a person like that and you're playing them based solely on stuff you've seen on camera (including interviews), you're not going to have a fully formed idea of who they were.
Anyway, the movie is not very good. The gimmick where her older/younger self appears to her is cheesy and laugh-inducing. I think doing a bio for a woman famous for taking her clothes off is kind of hard to do on a network where you can't show nudity. Perhaps an R rated movie would have at least had more cheesecake to admire. Anyway, if you're a fan of Agnes Bruckner, check it out. She's in every scene and most of the time wearing very little.