Valley of the Dolls

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angel d FOR SOME REASON THEY DIDN"T REALIZE THEY WERE MAKING A COMEDY! The acting is terrible. The dialogue cringe worthy. The songs banal. This film is so bad you'll want to watch it again and again. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 09/08/24 Full Review Alec B Part of the movie's strange appeal is the fact that it is both salacious and moralizing. It wants you to know what they are showing you is wrong while the filmmakers also delight in showing you this tawdry melodrama. If you can make it through the slow first half the sudden decent in the second is so bizzare that you can't stop watching it. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 06/15/24 Full Review Matthew R Iconic. Camp classic. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 07/21/23 Full Review Audience Member Trashy, campy, With terrible overheated acting, Cheesy in the extreme, But still has a quasi entertainment value, It's also a little sad Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 07/18/24 Full Review Russ A film you watch to see if it's as bad as its reputation, and the answer is: "Not a lot worse than other Hollywood films of its era." The three principle actresses do a fair job given the limitations of the screenplay, which is choppy, to say the least. Things progress in an orderly manner, then drop off the cliff at almost exactly the halfway mark, at the pool scene between Martin Milner and Patty Duke. There's no exposition as to how she became a pill-popping diva. My most serious criticism is reserved for the producer or casting director for roping an aging Susan Haywood into this train wreck. Did she need a paycheck bad enough to be humiliated? Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 06/12/23 Full Review Taylor L For all the fame that Sharon Tate has maintained since her untimely death, she was involved in shockingly few films that could be called popular; Valley of the Dolls is probably her most substantial project, but even this is known more for its satirical follow-up. Just another film about the poisoned nature of show business and fame, but told without power or nuance. For some reason the story splits itself across different characters just to show different paths to ruin - substance abuse, debauchery, whatever - rather than committing to a single, unified arc; this is apparently a holdover from the novel, which had the room to be more substantial. The stories are just silly bits of over-the-top melodrama, tons of theatrics that are just dolloped into the film like a gallon of whipped cream on top of a very small slice of pie; I'm sure some people could relate to the rise and fall narrative sincerely, but with all the talk of genetic diseases, cancer diagnoses, and spins in the asylum, this is really a movie that can only be enjoyed for its crowd-pleasing excess and unintentional humor than anything it does deliberately. Nice costuming and a good visual experience of showbiz in the '60s, but really just a stupid story masquerading as something more profound; Patty Duke literally has her hands up in the air calling out to God by the end. Mostly a sensationalized, oversexed version of A Star is Born or one of the other classic 'small town girl goes to Hollywood' scripts. (2/5) Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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