The choice of Mark Robson, a talented Hollywood journeyman director, for this piece of nonsense was inspired.
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10/17/07
Valley of the Dolls (1967)
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Reviews Counted:23
Fresh:9
Rotten:14
Average Rating:4.7/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 4 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Film adaptation of Jacqueline Susann's melodramatic, bestselling potboiler. The story tracks the lives of three women -- naive New Englander Anne Welles, aspiring singer Neely O'Hara, and buxom... [More]
Starring: Sharon Tate, Patty Duke, Barbara Parkins, Susan Hayward
Director: Walter Grauman
Reviews for Valley of the Dolls
Top CriticJacqueline Susann's 'exposé' of Hollywood gets the cliché-ridden treatment it deserves from Robson.
01/26/06
Top CriticAt the time sordid, now blase look at drug-infested Hollywood.
03/14/09
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03/11/09
Top CriticNo review available.
03/01/08
Rent it and howl.
10/17/07
Pure trash, based on a trashy book, filled to the brim with trashy performances, now becoming a trashy cult film.
10/17/07
Top CriticToo dull even to function as camp.
10/17/07
No review available.
02/18/07
It's an okay premise, but it still is weighted down with so much of the 60s that I find it hard to relate.
07/19/06
Based on Susann's steamy bestseller, this delightfully absurd and lurid saga of three girls in "corrupt and corrupting" Hollywood has become a cult classic due to its memorably campy lines.
06/27/06
A lurid '60s sensation
05/29/06
No review available.
06/25/05
It's an unbelievably hackneyed and mawkish mish-mash of backstage plots and Peyton Place adumbrations.
05/09/05
Top CriticIt tries to raise itself to the level of sophisticated pornography, but fails. And it is dirty, not because it has lots of sex in it, but because it firmly believes that sex is dirty.
10/23/04
Top CriticNo review available.
04/09/04
No review available.
02/24/04
No review available.
08/12/03
No review available.
06/26/03
You won’t want to miss a word of the deliciously bad dialogue in this Hollywood tale of twisted sisters.
03/10/03
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