Gretchen Mol, Lili Taylor, Jonathan M. Woodward
This is the story of the super successful 1950s pin-up model, Bettie Page, one of the first sex icons in America, who was the target of a major Senate investigation -- based on her highly provocative ...( read more
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DVD Release Date: September 26, 2006
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September 29, 2009An honest account of the Bette Page years. I'm glad it didn't go down the usual route like Ray & Walk the Line, instead it kept to the facts. Page wasn't such an interesting person but her story is, she is a huge icon of the 20th Century, so the story is worth telling and it is t...( read more)
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September 9, 2008Gretchen Mol, an actress I'll certainly be looking out for in the future. Full review later
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July 29, 2008Mol was pretty cute...like an innocent kitten cute, which isn't what I would have expected Page to be like, but it made for an interesting movie.
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July 29, 2008Gretchen Moll is outstanding as the title character in this unusual biopic with an inevitably sexy slant. I knew nothing of Bettie Page before embarking on this HBO venture, but it's a fascinating glimpse into innocence and exploitation. The black and white filming works well to ...( read more)
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October 29, 2009Gretchen Mol looks uncannily like Bettie Page - she has the same 'innocent' look that made Bettie Page into such an icon. This mainly black and white biopic of her life works very well - the late 1950's period feel is really spot on especially during the first half of the movie. ...( read more)
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August 23, 2009This was interesting. I had no idea about Page's life so this was interesting. However, it was kind of boring.
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August 15, 2009Bettie Page não é só uma boa biografia, mas também um excelente retrato das contradições da sociedade norte-americana.
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August 15, 2009Notoriously pointless. I was embarrassed that Gretchen Mol had to get naked so much for a movie that brought nothing to the table. Script needed a real shot in the arm. Nothing else of note.
Critic Reviews
May 12, 2006
David Edelstein, New York Magazine
April 20, 2006
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
The tone of the movie is subdued and reflective. It does not defend pornography, but regards it (in its 1950s incarnation) with subdued nostalgia for a more innocent time. full review
April 20, 2006
Colin Covert, The Minneapolis Star Tribune
There are interesting parallels between the hemmed-in culture of America's paranoid postwar years and the enforced restraint and caged sexuality of the fetish photos that flourished at the time, but t... full review
April 14, 2006
Claudia Puig, USA Today
Bettie Page more closely resembles a TV movie than a probing feature. full review
April 14, 2006
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
The Notorious Bettie Page is about the mundane but living humanity behind the pictures, the regular person behind a decade's fantasies. full review
April 13, 2006
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
Mol's portrayal of Bettie Page is likely to at last earn her the recognition she deserves. full review
April 12, 2006
Marcy Dermansky, About.com
If you could give an Oscar for radiating joy while clad in knee-high, spiky leather boots and a corset, Gretchen Mol deserves it. full review
April 4, 2006
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
[Mol] delivers the first performance by an actress this year that deserves serious Oscar consideration. full review
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