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Valley of the Dolls

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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... 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 beauty Jennifer North -- as they attempt to achieve fame and fortune in Hollywood. But as each starlet either rises to the top or falls to the bottom, she discovers that Hollywood is full of pitfalls and heartbreak. Instead of the happiness they seek, the trio finds only alcoholism, wild sexcapades, tantrums, porno roles, suicide, marital woes, wigs in the toilet, and a dependence on "dolls" -- slang for pills. Which of these ingenues will survive her "trip" through Hollywood? [More]

Starring: Sharon Tate, Patty Duke, Barbara Parkins, Susan Hayward

Starring: Sharon Tate, Patty Duke, Barbara Parkins, Susan Hayward, Martin Milner, Charles Drake, Alexander Davion, Lee Grant, Naomi Stevens, Robert H. Harris, Richard Dreyfuss, Linda Timmerman

Director: Walter Grauman

Director: Walter Grauman
Producer: David Weisbart
Screenwriter: Helen Deutsch, Dorothy Kingsley
Composer: John Williams

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The choice of Mark Robson, a talented Hollywood journeyman director, for this piece of nonsense was inspired.

Full Review Source: Channel 4 Film | comment Comment
10/17/07
Channel 4 Film
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Jacqueline Susann's 'exposé' of Hollywood gets the cliché-ridden treatment it deserves from Robson.

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01/26/06
Time Out
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At the time sordid, now blase look at drug-infested Hollywood.

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03/14/09
Steve Crum
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03/11/09
Variety
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03/01/08
David Kaplan
David Kaplan
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Rent it and howl.

Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | comment Comment
10/17/07
Stephen Macmillan Moser
Stephen Macmillan Moser
Austin Chronicle
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Pure trash, based on a trashy book, filled to the brim with trashy performances, now becoming a trashy cult film.

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10/17/07
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Too dull even to function as camp.

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10/17/07
Dave Kehr
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Chicago Reader

No review available.

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02/18/07
Jake Euker
Jake Euker
F5 (Wichita, KS)

It's an okay premise, but it still is weighted down with so much of the 60s that I find it hard to relate.

Full Review Source: 7M Pictures | comment Comment
07/19/06
Kevin Carr
Kevin Carr
7M Pictures

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.

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06/27/06
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

A lurid '60s sensation

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05/29/06
Don Willmott
Don Willmott
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06/25/05
Moriarty
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It's an unbelievably hackneyed and mawkish mish-mash of backstage plots and Peyton Place adumbrations.

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05/09/05
Bosley Crowther
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New York Times
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It 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.

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10/23/04
Roger Ebert
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04/09/04
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02/24/04
Thomas Delapa
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Boulder Weekly

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08/12/03
Jules Brenner
Jules Brenner
Cinema Signals

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06/26/03
Edward Havens
Edward Havens
FilmJerk.com

You won’t want to miss a word of the deliciously bad dialogue in this Hollywood tale of twisted sisters.

Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | comment Comment
03/10/03
Marjorie Baumgarten
Marjorie Baumgarten
Austin Chronicle
 
 
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