Call Me Miss Cleo

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Dave C I remember the days of the Psychic hotlines back in the day and seeing her ads on late night TV. This was an okay documentary on an interesting time in history. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 05/07/23 Full Review Robert A Stories like Miss Cleo's sadden me because at certain times you can see that it doesn't get any better. Miss Cleo's story is a tale of someone being swept away by fame and fortune and immediately dropped on their head. She or more specifically her likeness and name was used and profited from and all that is left of her is a gimmick of the 90s and claims of fraud. The HBO Max doc does an impressive job of highlighting voices who've portrayed her as well as specific clients, friends, and classmates. The eerie words of her last interview years before her last breath show you just how much pain she was in and how hurt she and her coworkers were by all that happened in the scheme of pay-per-call readings. While the order of the story was mildly underwhelming, it was revelatory to see people realize they were seeing their classmate in this new way. Call Me Miss Cleo is documentary fodder at best, but it's nice to see the pathway from a success to a villain to an ancestor. The film does little to truly unearth who she was, why this really happened to her, and all she knew. The film does, however, show her impact on generations and the ever-growing industry of phone scams, infomercials, and the state of cons in America. If you want to see how a nation united to be gullible and were deceived during a specific period in our history, this film may be for you. From the cast of characters, prosecutors, classmates, partners, and friends featured, you get a glimpse that we (the yearning public) still don't know who she was or intended to be. We do see that many believed her portrayal to be real and grounded in positive intent. In the words of Miss Cleo, "What threat do I pose, and to whom?" Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/18/23 Full Review stephen b It seemed like this could be an interesting story, but there was nothing remotely interesting about this documentary. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/20/23 Full Review Connor R This is a good documentary and it tells you the truth about Cleo Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review troy h During the 90s, everyone who saw "Miss Cleo's" infomercials found her an amusing delight, anyone in the skeptic community also knows she was a bit of a sketchy character with aliases and fraud allegations. So there is fodder to make a documentary. What is produced her is utter drivel with the beginning and end of the production an abject hagiography. A misstep is to use interviews with actresses who did parody acts on television. Maybe 30 seconds for each of the two would have been appropriate. Interviews with actual people who did readings were fantastic, you really get a feeling for how it was lonely hurting people who were being ripped off. The expose in the legal proceedings was well done and rather interesting. Overall too much time is spent on Miss Cleo's relationships, her "god children" and so forth, and they aren't really given the hard questions. Also missing is a well researched bio on her early life, her children and family. In fact the whole documentary lacks research and wants to make you like her, rather than really delve into who she was and what she had done. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review lifeafterthat Seemed to be thoroughly researched. Honest even though Cleo remained guarded about her childhood. She wasn't a villain. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/02/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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