Say what you want about Lifetime but they found their groove and they re sticking to it. Anna Nicole which premiered on June 29 is just the most recent installment of the camp y overly dramatic made for TV movies that Lifetime does so well. We at HollywoodLife.com called Lifetime s story of Anna Nicole Smith crazy wild fun and a roller coaster ride of drugs alcohol and tragedy but did the rest of the critics like it as much as we did
Anna Nicole ReviewsVariety
Anna Nicole isn t really about anything in the conventional sense but still manages to be as hard to turn away from and vaguely sleazy as its namesake which should suit Lifetime s purposes just fine. If nothing else the movie appears destined to win some kind of award for most convincing prosthetic cleavage allowing Agnes Bruckner to play the Playboy and Guess jeans model in her pre and build on breast stages flanked by a perfectly cast Martin Landau and Adam Goldberg as the unlikely men in her life. As guilty pleasures go this one certainly doesn t lack for moments at which to hoot.
New York Post
On Saturday night Lifetime blows out the doors with Anna Nicole a true life movie so good so well written and yet sleazy enough to satisfy even the cheesiest viewers among us.
The Hollywood Reporter
It was in 2007 that Anna Nicole Smith aka Vickie Lynn Hogan the small town Texas girl who grew up to embody one of the most spectacularly unfortunate public meltdowns of modern Hollywood died from a cocktail of prescription drugs at the age of 39. That rags to riches story is an old Hollywood fable continuously reflected in a constant rotation of bright young things. But Anna Nicole manages to breathe new life into the tale of yet another young woman with a misplaced Marilyn Monroe obsession that turns into a curse.
Boston Globe
The movie which premieres on Saturday at 8 has nothing to offer. It s storytelling at its most shallow and unsatisfying. Written by John Rice and Joe Batteer and directed by Mary Harron Anna Nicole barely conveys the basic facts of Smith s life never mind any bigger ideas about her private terrors and our cultural demons. Bruckner is fine as Smith and her prosthetic breastplate is quite impressive but the script gives her nothing of substance or with resonance.
So besides one scathing review everyone seems to be on board with us We hope you set your DVRs to record Anna Nicole or that you can catch a rerun because it s definitely worth a viewing.
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