Isn't She Great

Isn't She Great
Directed by Andrew Bergman
Produced by Mike Lobell
Written by Paul Rudnick
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
Edited by Barry Malkin
Production
company
  • BBC
  • Lobell-Bergman Productions
  • Marbeni
  • Mutual Film Corporation
  • Tele-Munchen
  • Toho
  • Universal Pictures
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release dates
January 28, 2000 (2000-01-28)
Running time
95 minutes
Country
  • United States
  • United Kingdom
  • Germany
  • Japan[1]
Language English
Budget $44 million
Box office $3,003,296

Isn't She Great is a 2000 American biographical film that presents a fictionalized biography of best-selling author Jacqueline Susann, played by Bette Midler. The film was directed by Andrew Bergman, with a screenplay by Paul Rudnick based on a 1995 New Yorker profile by Michael Korda. It was released by Universal Pictures.

The film covers Susann's entire life, focusing on her early struggles as an aspiring actress relentlessly hungry for fame, her relationship with press agent husband Irving Mansfield (Nathan Lane), 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. In addition to Midler and Lane, the film stars Stockard Channing as Susann's "gal pal" Florence Maybelle, David Hyde Pierce as book editor Michael Hastings, and John Cleese as publisher Henry Marcus. John Larroquette, Amanda Peet, Christopher McDonald, Debbie Shapiro, and Paul Benedict have supporting roles.

Opening in 750 US theaters on January 28, 2000, it was assaulted by the critics and shunned by the public, and earned only $3 million at the box office, far less than its cost of $44 million.[2] Midler was nominated for a Worst Actress Golden Raspberry Award.

Cast

Production

The film was an international production, with the BBC, Lobell-Bergman Productions, Marbeni, Mutual Film Corporation, Tele-Munchen, Toho and Universal Pictures contributing, making it an American-British-German-Japanese co-production.[1] Despite the international production, the film was not released in Japan.[1]

Reception

Isn't She Great was panned by critics, as the film holds a 25% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 61 reviews.

Awards and nominations

Nominations

Footnotes

References

  • Galbraith IV, Stuart (1994). Japanese Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films. McFarland. ISBN 0-89950-853-7. 
  • Galbraith IV, Stuart (2008). The Toho Studios Story: A History and Complete Filmography. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 1461673747. 

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