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The Audrey Hepburn Story

The Audrey Hepburn Story

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Jennifer as Audrey
Review: No-one expected voluptuous Love to be cast well as Audrey Hepburn,but she pulls it off fabulously.This is a very good story about the legend,Audrey's,life.When will we see an old-time Hollywood legend who had a stable and happy life!?Audrey was a private person and it took this film for many people to find out that her father didn't want to be a father at all.Her mother seemed to be a different story,at least,always by Audrey's side,especially during filmings.I didn't see the beginning of the movie though.This was a pretty interesting,non-boring movie.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: She did a good job
Review: Alright..this movie wasn't the best bio pic..but jennifer love hewitt did an great job..and hey look at the girl she looks like miss hepburn. the accent was a weird but at least she tried...I think it took alot of guts to do this role...jennifer love hewitt ws beauitful in this role and think I this was a lovely movie.
i give it *****5 stars..

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: a travesty
Review: This film did nothing to portray Audrey in the best light possible. sub-par acting (Natalie Portman was the obvious choice!!!), and the directing was 'off.' Also, that "moon river" crooning had to be a JOKE! Buy or rent one of Audrey's REAL films, and you'll be much better off.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Faye shoulda won an Oscar for Mommie Dearest...
Review: ...compared to this piece of tripe.

A lot of people (including me) thought Audrey slaughtered the film version of My Fair Lady. Personally, I forgave Audrey for that error long ago. Is this movie her payback?

Jennifer, get over your self. Your a horrid actress. I cannot believe you have gotten as far as you have in your career. I never thought anyone could miscast THEMSELVES.

Since JLH played Audrey, here's some suggestions for future movies about legendary actresses...

Starr Jones as Bette Davis
Cindy Crawford as Katherine Hepburn
Rosanne as Marlene Dietrich
Bea Arthur as Marilyn Monroe
Elizabeth Berkley as Ethel Merman
Tori Spelling as Judy Garland

If JLH can play Audrey, then my list is very plausable.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: This is a joke, right?
Review: If I had all that money I could produce and star in a poorly written movie about one of the best actresses to ever grace Hollywood -- but that doesn't mean I would or should. JLH's casting of (surprise, surprise) herself as Audrey Hepburn is, believe it or not, a new lowpoint in made-for-tv movies. Her only physical similarities are brown hair and eyes. She is too short and busty to play the 5'7" waif-like Audrey. It was more like dress-up playtime for JLH than any serious attempt at portraying any truths about Hepburn. Her accent was inconsistant and nothing like Audrey Hepburn's smooth and enchanting voice. She was the opposite of graceful, poised, and captivating. Her acting was more suited for a high-school drama club play than a movie about such an amazing woman. This was poorly acted, poorly casted, poorly written, poorly directed, and so very inaccurate! (I could go on and on.) I wasted 3 hours of my life on this when it aired on tv ... hopefully something good will come of it in my ability to help you save your money. Don't waste a cent on this frothy nothing of a made-for-tv debacle!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: A legendary actress is portrayed poorly
Review: Though Jennifer Love Hewitt delivers great performances (or not)in Teen flicks, she must be bold to try to accomplish such a role in an Audrey Hepburn biopic. I've watched all of Audrey Hepburn's films as well as researched many of her biographies, and believe Jennifer Love Hewitt did a poor job in portraying the hollywood legend. The movie wasn't grounded, it didn't have a good feel to it, they didn't contribute a lot of the things that was most important to Audrey...except to show the rise of fame. The other actors portraying other characters in the hollywood era looked nothing like the characters themselves-including Jennifer Love Hewitt portraying Audrey Hepburn. Jennifer Love Hewitt's look is of no resemblance to the beautiful Audrey Hepburn. If not for the hair from the Breakfast at Tiffany's set-they might as well have had Whoopi Goldberg portraying Audrey Hepburn. I was VERY disappointed in spending $ on this film. Not worth owning. To satisfy the curiosity of movie goers, worth a view for half the movie-I'd bunk the rest. In my opinion, it was a ludricous portrayal of the beautiful, classic legend. To what honor shall Jennifer Love Hewitt have portraying the legend? An unknown actress would have suited more than she. She's too bubbly-and her own usual character shows through too much to make her Audrey Hepburn impersonation fall through. She brings in too much of her "own" look and smile to Audrey's, the classic smile she poses for every one of her films. Not genuine. Not believable AT ALL.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: It's a real life story
Review: Personally i don't think you can rate someone's life as a movie.
Audrey Hepburn was an amazing person. The story was very surprising to me because I had no idea she grew up around the war and without a father. If you've only seen her movies and have no clue about what her life was really like, this movie will be interesting for you. Of course, if you're a professional where Audrey is concerned and are looking for a movie that's exactly true and more of a biography than a movie, this isn't for you. I don't know tons about her so I can't say that the movie was perfectly correct. This isn't really a movie movie. It's more Hollywood mixed in with facts.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: A surprise well done by Jennifer
Review: Remarkably good. Though bafflingly ironic they'd cast a Jennifer to play someone who was to die of colon disease. Jennifer Lopez or Jennifer Connely could'nt do it well. And certainly not Jennifer Anniston, who looks nothing like Audrey Hepburn anyway. But Jennifer Love Hewitt is the one that could do it, and surprisingly well as I'd never expect from a Jennifer. Reinforces her as the best actress among Jennifers. Audrey was definitely the underrated of the two Hepburn actresses, who I always thought were related, since their name is uncommon, until someone told me they weren't. I'm Happy Jennifer Love Hewitt has the stuff after all to give this sweet and loving tribute. It made me cry, almost as much as when Audrey died.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: I wish it was better...
Review: I was not a huge Jennifer Love Hewitt fan before I saw this film and my opinion stays the same after seeing it. I don't think Hewitt looks anything like Audrey, except for having brown hair and brown eyes. Plus her attempt at an accent was completely over-the-top.

But my fault with this film is not with Jennifer Love Hewitt; she should have never been cast in the role of Audrey Hepburn in the first place. Which brings me to the true problem with this film - the production. The story is not entirely historically accurate to Audrey's life: portions are missing, costuming is wrong, and the movie ends abruptly with Breakfast at Tiffany's which was debatedly the pinnacle of Audrey's film work but certainly not the end of her story. There are so many valuble resources on Audrey's life that there is no reason for it to not be correct; this is just the result of shoddy, underbudgeted, made-for-TV filmmaking. I believe you shouldn't do anything halfway and that is exactly what has been done here.

If she saw this film, I think Audrey would graciously thank the producers for considering to do a movie about her life, while secretly wondering why half of her life is absent. These are my feelings as well. I look towards the day when we can see a well-budgeted, major motion picture about Audrey Hepburn's life. Until then, The Audrey Hepburn Story will have to do - but I think I'll read a biography instead.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: good info!
Review: The Audrey Hepburn Story was fantastic. Although some of the things that happened did not happen at the right time. Jennifer Love does lovely, but is not Audrey Hepburn. I am doing an Audrey report, and it was very informative.


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