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When Teri Horton, a 73 year-old former long-haul truck driver with an eighth grade education, bought a painting in a thrift shop for five dollars, she didn't know that it would pit her against the hig...( read more 
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MCT:May 17, 2008Interesting to watch, fun to see the so called art experts look like idiots when they refuse to believe the scientific evidence. However the movie totally missed out on making any points about the fact that the name on the painting it more important than the painting itself.
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MCT:May 5, 2008Excellent peek into the closed-off world of uber-expensive art. I think some of the players believe they make reality. Worth watching.
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MCT:April 24, 2008A brief, yet dull "documentary" about a woman who supposedly buys a painting for 5 bucks and it turns out to be worth millions. It doesn't really go anywhere - she tells the story again as she probably has 1000 times and they ask experts what they think and they investigate whether it's authentic or not.
The best part of the film is not so much the foul mouthed trailer trash lady, but rather the snarky and snobbish asshole art expert that denounces the painting. The characters surrounding this ugly painting are just as colorful as the piece, but it's barely enough to make trudging through this film worth the time. It's basically like an episode of 60 minutes. Yawn. -
MCT:April 12, 2008Really engaging and interesting. Teri Horton is fascinating to watch and the scenes with her and her friends just sitting around a table talking are the best ones in the film. It is really fun to watch "little" people spit in the face of "important" people, and this movie does just that. The only thing I really disliked about the film was the narration, which sounded a lot like "E! True Hollywood Story" narration at times. Other than that though, this documentary is informative, funny, engaging, and even exciting. Highly recommended.
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MCT:April 10, 2008
A really great story about the ultimate underdog battling against the stubborn art world. This was near perfect, although the fact that there isn't any sort of conclusion really took away from the drama near the finale. On one hand, we are left knowing that Horton has stuck to her character and isn't going to budge until she proves herself right, but on the other hand we see a film like Rocky without any sort of final battle. Just comes off as fairly anticlimactic, although I guess the filmmaker didn't have much of an option considering this is so open ended.
The cast of characters is very interesting and colorful in their own individual ways... while all the stuff regarding forensics was fascinating, it's really the characters themselves that are the heart of the film.
It's a lot of fun to watch and it's a blast to root for Teri against a world that seems completely asinine in it's belief that "provenance" conquers forensic evidence.
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StarZeroIIposted 346 days ago
