Pamela, a Love Story

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Pamela, a Love Story

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Released Jan 31, 2023

1h 52m

Biography

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An intimate and humanizing portrait of one of the world's most famous blonde bombshells, Pamela, a love story follows the trajectory of Pamela Anderson's life and career from small town girl to international sex symbol, actress, activist and doting mother.

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Using an admittedly standard structure, Pamela, a Love Story recontextualizes its subject's very public life to thought-provoking effect.

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Todd Gilchrist

Variety

As a thoughtful chronicle of the ups and downs of her life, Ryan White’s film plays slightly as a retread that amplifies the public’s love story with redemption arcs more than it offers anything that has not already been revealed to the world.

Feb 13, 2023

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Tim Cogshell

FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)

She's a consequential figure, and this movie tells us why.

Feb 10, 2023

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Camilla Long

Times (UK)

... A show about life after being a sex symbol, and it is riveting.

Feb 6, 2023

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Tamma Moksha

The Hindu

The actor candidly talks about her infamous sex tape, romantic relationships and fighting misogyny in Ryan White's latest documentary.

Jun 10, 2024

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Erik Childress

Movie Madness Podcast

Having Anderson tell her story helps give the film a balance between the self-imposed fame and some of the later hypocrisies in her brushes with and support of invaded privacy that results in a better personal doc than a fully introspective one.

Rated: 3/4

Jul 26, 2023

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Jillian Chilingerian

Offscreen Central

Although her story is tragic, Pamela Anderson and Ryan White bring a sense of romance to her recap that feels like an exercise in meditation and a tale of ownership rather than a documentary.

Jul 25, 2023

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Laura S

Loved this! Very well done

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

03/09/25

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Shirlyn M

Gotta love this girl…. She’s still standing, and she’s coming back better than ever.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

03/07/25

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Audience Member

I really enjoyed this. Aside from Baywatch, Playboy and Tommy Lee I didn't know much else about Pamela. I was genuinely surprised by how sweet, gracious and humble she is. She's an amazing mum to her boys.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

03/04/25

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N P

"Pamela, a Love Story" sets the record straight on a plethora of misconceptions during an unforgiving and narrow-minded time via Pamela's own strength and voice. She openly offers the ins and outs of her life with a welcome sense of vulnerability yet lightness, following an individual who's been through a heck of a lot, is dealing with it and somehow comes out on top through her determination and drive. A real, genuine look into a misunderstood icon's story - teaching all of us to never judge a book by its cover.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

11/14/24

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K. L

I wanted to like this more and stuck with it, but it had a curiously bland ending, despite her debut and success in Chicago. I couldn't decide if this was a slow moving, low grade tragedy or a parody of a real Hollywood starlet. Just meh, unfortunately.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

09/10/24

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Herry S

This documentary was based of her personal problem on relationship with Tommy Lee, Old generation everyone knew her but this year 2020 and so on who care about her.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

06/18/24

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Synopsis

An intimate and humanizing portrait of one of the world's most famous blonde bombshells, Pamela, a love story follows the trajectory of Pamela Anderson's life and career from small town girl to international sex symbol, actress, activist and doting mother.

Director: Ryan White
Producer: Jessica Hargrave, Julia Nottingham, Brandon Thomas Lee
Distributor: Netflix
Rating: TV-MA
Genre: Biography, Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jan 31, 2023, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 31, 2023
Runtime: 1h 52m

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