This cheap and tawdry disaster of a movie appears to be the re-telling of the Marilyn Monroe story in some kind of parallel universe. A universe where documented facts don't matter, and where the fashions, music and sensibilities of the1970s were somehow alive and well 30 years too early, as Marilyn grew from abused teenage orphan to casting-couch victim, to Hollywood star. Along the way she is raped by multiple men (and a woman), gets mixed up in the porn and snuff movie business, slashes her wrists, shacks up with some Hugh Hefner producer type, speaks to people with the filthiest mouth imaginable, and ends the movie with the immortal line "That's the last cock I'll ever have to suck!". Hooray for Hollywood.
Apart from all the misery and abuse, the film seems to suggest that the transformation from Norma Jean into the blonde bombshell Marilyn is very sudden - just the addition of a new hairdo and a figure hugging silver dress seem to do the trick, and the story ends soon afterwards.
Poor Misty Rowe does her best, and I really mean that. Although she gives it a go, she plays the part with the dumb blonde act and constant kittenish whisper right from the start, which I don't think is how Monroe acted off camera, and I think this was pretty ill advised. The script is the reason she comes across so poorly, it's diabolical. The rest of the cast is a lot worse, and the attention to period detail is all but absent. The movie's lighting, sound and general quality are all rock bottom, and there's really nothing here for anyone to enjoy
Apart from all the misery and abuse, the film seems to suggest that the transformation from Norma Jean into the blonde bombshell Marilyn is very sudden - just the addition of a new hairdo and a figure hugging silver dress seem to do the trick, and the story ends soon afterwards.
Poor Misty Rowe does her best, and I really mean that. Although she gives it a go, she plays the part with the dumb blonde act and constant kittenish whisper right from the start, which I don't think is how Monroe acted off camera, and I think this was pretty ill advised. The script is the reason she comes across so poorly, it's diabolical. The rest of the cast is a lot worse, and the attention to period detail is all but absent. The movie's lighting, sound and general quality are all rock bottom, and there's really nothing here for anyone to enjoy