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Polanski Unauthorized

Released Feb 13, 2009 1h 29m Drama Biography List
0% Tomatometer 6 Reviews 38% Popcornmeter 100+ Ratings
Filmmaker Roman Polanski (Damian Chapa) courts a controversial personal life.

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Sam Adams Los Angeles Times It's clear from Polanski's cramped frames that [director] Chapa knows as little about filmmaking as he does his subject. Rated: 1/5 Feb 13, 2009 Full Review Todd McCarthy Variety This Friday the 13th Los Angeles vanity release isn't even fun in a bad-movie way. Feb 13, 2009 Full Review Peter Sobczynski eFilmCritic.com To describe the film as this generation's "Wired" hardly begins to scratch the surface. This is a movie so bad that the people who actually made "Wired" can actually look down upon it without coming across as hypocritical. Rated: 1/5 Feb 17, 2009 Full Review John P. McCarthy Boxoffice Magazine Ambitious in an obsessive, stalkerish sort of way, Damian Chapa(TM)s low-budget biopic of Roman Polanski is avowedly empathetic and thus not a complete hatchet job. Rated: 1.5/5 Feb 17, 2009 Full Review Brent Simon Shared Darkness A jumbled, whorish, opportunistic hot mess, multi-hyphenate Chapa's film is a fantastically terrible biopic, poorly told and riddled with repeated, confounding lapses in logic. Rated: F Feb 17, 2009 Full Review David Chute L.A. Weekly Though it's a near thing, the movie isn't quite bad enough to qualify as a classic tone-deaf vanity production. Feb 12, 2009 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member One of the worst movies I've ever seen. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/14/23 Full Review Audience Member Too much from the viewpoint of Roman Polanski. Also Polanski sometimes is portrayed as an Borat like character. Also Chapa implicates that Anton Lavey was involved in the Tate-murders, because Polanski fired him from being an advisor for "Fearless vampire killers. But well.. You can't say Chapa is unbiased about Anton Lavey, Lavey was on the cover of Damian Chapa's ( not imdb accredited ) conspiracy documentary "Secrets of conspiracies". Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review Audience Member I made the mistake at thinking this was a biography. Yes, it was portrayed as one, but it was filmed like a college student had the camera. The acting was no different, maybe because of the director looking over himself as the lead role. Should have left that big of a decision to Clint Eastwood. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review Audience Member WHY? As Charles Barkley would say trbl! Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 01/29/23 Full Review Audience Member Wether its accurate timeline or even events doesnt justify this mess of a ducumentary, it just comes down to cheap porn. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Audience Member I thought this film was very one sided and just made Polanski seem like a horrible individual. It took basically his worst moments and portrayed them as negatively as possible. I thought this failed to deliver a fair or portrayal of his life and the acting wasn't very believable. Overall, I'd say this is a mess and I can't advise anyone to watch it. i highly recommend the documentary about this same topic titled "Roman Polanski: Wanted & Desired". Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis Filmmaker Roman Polanski (Damian Chapa) courts a controversial personal life.
Director
Damian Chapa
Producer
Damian Chapa, Edmund Druilhet, Silvia Suvadova
Screenwriter
Damian Chapa, Carlton Holder
Production Co
Amadeus Pictures, Laguna Productions
Genre
Drama, Biography
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Feb 13, 2009, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Dec 12, 2016
Runtime
1h 29m
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