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The Brittany Murphy Story (2014)
Utterly Clueless
My expectations were mighty low on this biopic but unfortunately that never assists enjoyment. Who doesn't want to see the story of a talented actress' rise to fame and what she had to sacrifice to get there? Her mysterious death is initially pegged as a potential driving plot point but crumbles under the train-wreck that this movie becomes.
Amanda Fuller who takes on the title role head wobbles her way through all 86 minutes. She is reminiscent of Murphy's Clueless character, complete with East coast twang just to remind us whose life story we are watching because there is no resemblance between the two actresses at all. What she has to work with isn't exactly keeping members of the Hollywood foreign press up at night reminiscing about its brilliance. This clichéd, overly biased piece made me wonder if it was penned by her own mother as it desperately tries to show Britt as a self confessed homebody who stays away from drugs and loves her mummy more than life itself. We get it. No one wants her remembered as a drug abusing, malnourished party girl that the press portrayed, but making her character one dimensional seems desperate to prove otherwise. Conforming to to the skinny blonde Hollywood wanted her to be isn't a ground breaking revelation in any actress's career so there was no need to treat it like it was.
Hyper-reactive acting makes this piece more unrealistic than the poorly placed wigs most of the characters are forced to wear. Britt is shot unflatteringly and looks far from the real deal. The intelligence of viewers is insulted by avoiding any subtlety with the characters and the script. Murphy's creepy husband weakly confessing he's a bit of a sociopath is laughable and shows little faith of the screenwriter in how their material would be used. Repetitive information about Brittany's medical history is also unnecessary but drilled like the target audience average age is 5. (CPR on a conscious breathing man was the icing on the cake).
The villain here are the press when they are seen to cause undue speculation and Brittany's eventual paranoia. They are seen as the bad guys because they over-dramatised, embellished and fabricated stories about Brittany throughout her career.
Hypocritically that is exactly what this movie does