Myra Breckinridge

Myra Breckinridge (1970)

  • 29% of critics liked it
    (21 reviews)

  • 37% of users liked it
    (991 ratings)

Gore Vidal's best-selling satiric novel gets an inarguably unique screen treatment in this off-center psycho-sexual farce. Fussy film buff Myron Breckinridge (Rex Reed) goes to Europe and gets a sex-change operation from a slovenly chain-smoking doctor (John Carradine) and returns to the United… More

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R, 1 hr. 34 min.
Directed By
Michael Sarne, Michael Sarne (II)
Written By
David Giler, Michael Sarne
Genres
Drama, Classics, Comedy
In Theaters
Jun 24, 1970 Limited
On DVD
Mar 9, 2004
CBS/Fox

Critic Reviews

  • Aaron Hillis, Village Voice

    One might appreciate Anthology's all-new print -- with its epic sets and costumes, slumming icons, and unfocused meta-ambitions -- as the queer precursor to Southland Tales.

  • Variety Staff, Variety

    The film version of Gore Vidal's Hollywood-themed transsexual satire starts off promisingly, but after a couple of reels plunges straight downhill under the weight of artless direction.

  • Don Druker, Chicago Reader

    Raquel Welch's big chance is snatched away by Sarne's careless and unprofessional direction, and Rex Reed's self-parody is much too pat and easy.

  • Michael Szymanski, International Press Academy

    If you truly analyze this, it's a very bisexual scene, and it's a classic, and I was told by a film buff friend that it was considered an A-list movie at the time.

  • , TV Guide's Movie Guide

    Extravagantly tasteless, surprisingly inept filming of Gore Vidal's briefly notorious novel.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • jay n


    Just awful, disconnected scenes that add up to nothing. The clips from old films is the best part of this one.

  • Eric B


    How can a sex farce starring Raquel Welch at her peak voluptuousness be so dull? This is like a porn flick with the porn edited out. An endless stream of set pieces that go nowhere. Myron Breckinridge (film critic Rex Reed) has an implausible sex change and re-emerges as gorgeous… More

  • Mark A


    A very campy sex comedy/revenge flick, starring the always luscious Raquel Welch, that doesn't hold up well. The characters are overblown and stereotypical, the sex (what there is) is pretty tame, and the controversial nature of the story seems a lot less scandalous today than it… More

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