Jacqueline Susann's 'exposé' of Hollywood gets the cliché-ridden treatment it deserves from Robson.
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01/26/06
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 CriticThe choice of Mark Robson, a talented Hollywood journeyman director, for this piece of nonsense was inspired.
10/17/07
Top CriticPure trash, based on a trashy book, filled to the brim with trashy performances, now becoming a trashy cult film.
10/17/07
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03/11/09
Top CriticIt's an unbelievably hackneyed and mawkish mish-mash of backstage plots and Peyton Place adumbrations.
05/09/05
Top CriticNo review available.
04/09/04
Too dull even to function as camp.
10/17/07
No review available.
03/01/08
You'll need some kind of a pill to sit through this soap opera dreck.
05/01/02
A lurid '60s sensation
05/29/06
No review available.
06/26/03
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
No review available.
02/18/07
Absolute trash, but not without its cult appeal.
03/05/03
No review available.
08/12/03
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
You won’t want to miss a word of the deliciously bad dialogue in this Hollywood tale of twisted sisters.
03/10/03
Oh, it's a bad movie, but in a good way.
01/01/00
No review available.
06/25/05
No review available.
12/30/02
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