Judy

Starring: Zellweger, Renee and Buckley, Jessie

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• Format: Blu-ray
• Language: English
• Release Date: January 1
• Rating: PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)
• Publisher: Lions Gate-Sphe
• Director: Goold, Rupert
• Starring: Zellweger, Renee, Buckley, Jessie
• Number of Disks: 2
• Other Video Info: Blu-ray
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 6.7"

Customer Reviews

"An Unconscionable, Preposterous, Deliberately Dark And Nasty Desecration Of Judy Garland":

This is not a "biopic." This is a desecration of Judy Garland as an artist and as a human being. There are only three things this film portrays correctly: Judy loved her children and cared deeply about being a good mother to them, she suffered with multiple addictions, and the hostile London audience did throw bread at her in 1968. That is all. This lazy, sleazy biopic does to Judy Garland what "Lady Sings The Blues" (1972) did to Billie Holliday, and what Baz Luhrmann's "Elvis" did to Elvis Presley. That is, it removes their humanity and portrays them at their lowest ebb. Gone from this "biopic" are Judy's charisma, warmth, wit, humor, talent, successes and triumphs. All we have here is Judy drugged up and played out, as if that is all she ever was. If I mentioned all the facts that are twisted and distorted herein in order to serve a deliberately dark, negative, and nasty "film narrative", we'd be here all day. But the "flashbacks" to 1938, when Judy was supposedly making "The Wizard Of Oz", are so haphazard, they are preposterously ridiculous. There is such a thing as dramatic license, but this movie is all dramatic desecration. Judy never had a romantic crush on Mickey Rooney. Their relationship was too "brother/sister" for that. As a young girl, Judy's taste in men ran towards Artie Shaw, Joseph Mankiewicz, and Tyrone Power. Judy never devoured a hamburger like a wild animal, and she never dove into a swimming tank in defiance of L.B. Mayer, as is ridiculously and inaccurately depicted here. Sid Luft and Judy last saw each other accidentally, at a dentist office in 1968. They never saw each other again in London after her brief encounter/marriage to Mickey Deans. And Judy certainly did not meet Deans at a party with her daughter Liza Minnelli. Judy never called her daughter Lorna Luft from a "phone box" in London. The scenes with Judy and her gay fans in their flat are also total fiction, and the film's "ending" is shamelessly contrived. Ms. Zellweger offers a "so-so" approximation of Judy's speaking voice, but her overall interpretation of Judy is on the level of a high school (first year, freshman) drama student. Mostly, Ms. Zellweger looks like a frightened animal caught in the headlights of on-coming traffic. Judy's daughter Lorna Luft refused to discuss this film when publicly pressed about it. All of Judy's kids should have sued over this trash. For a more complete, accurate, compassionate and humane portrait of Judy Garland, I urge you to view "American Masters--Judy Garland: By Myself" (PBS TV Documentary) and the epic TV mini-series "Me And My Shadows: Life With Judy Garland", in which Tammy Blanchard and Judy Davis both give deserved Emmy-Award winning performances as Garland. What this "biopic" does to her is unconscionable.