The Audrey Hepburn Story

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Summary: It's a Shame
Review: I was saddened to find out that Jennifer Love Hewitt was cast to portray Audrey Hepburn. She had no right to even try to compare to Hepburn. It is a poor excuse for a biography and it angered me to see Hepburn's life so poorly portrayed.

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Summary: The Audrey Hepburn Story
Review: Jennifer Love Hewitts performance lacks the unique quality and level of sophistication that so embodies Audrey Hepburn. This movie is overly ambitious in its portrayal of her life and only begins to skim the surface of the key issues surrounding her. Additionally it fails to touch more significantly upon what is considered to be her most important endeavor, leaving her work with Unicef little mentioned. For anyone sincerely interested in Audrey Hepburn as a person beyond her famous facade, I would highly recommend reading her biography by Barry Paris.

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Summary: Is this Audrey?
Review: Disclaimer: for any new Audrey Hepburn fans looking for an informational video that will increase your knowledge of the Fair Lady, don't look here. This TV biopic was built around Jennifer Love Hewitt, not Audrey Hepburn. Technically speaking, it's innacurate and skips over many important milestones in her life, and totally omitted her life beyond Breakfast at Tiffany's! For a good watch, try the A&E biography. At least it's accurate, and shows actual pictures of Audrey. This biopic crams all 5'2" of Jennifer's busty little self into replicas of Audrey's stunning and world-famous costumes, just so she (JLH) can over-reenact Roman Holiday and Breakfast at Tiffany's, probably the only two Hepburn films she bothered to watch before casting herself in this $7 million budget stinker. Not for respectful Hepburn fans, totally for Hewitt fans who want to see her in more tight outfits and clunky lifts that try to bring her up to Hepburn's 5'7".

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Summary: The Audrey Hepburn Story
Review: This was a wonderful movie about how Audrey Hepburn grew up, all the way from when she was 3 or 4, to her film "Breakfast at Tiffany's". Jenifer Love-Hewitt brings Audrey to life!It is a warm heartfelt story of the real Audrey Hepburn and I would highly recomend this film, it would be a great film to watch wiht you family!

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Summary: You're kidding... right???
Review: Jennifer Love Hewitt as Audrey Hepburn? AAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHH!!!!

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Summary: Good leading performance
Review: I enjoyed every moment of this biopic and thought that Jennifer Love Hewitt played Audrey Hepburn very well, both in terms of her looks and her voice. I could have sworn that Hewitt was a British actress till I found out from the internet that she was born Texan - an impressive performance. In particular, Hewitt's smile is really something.
Biopics are difficult to make well because of the problem of selection of material, and the consequent risk of portraying characters in insufficient detail (like Hepburn's father). Even this however illustrates that she hardly knew him.
This may be a 'TV movie', but it is a good TV movie. Recommended for an enjoyable relaxing afternoon or evening.

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Summary: OF COURSE Jennifer Love Hewitt isn't Audrey Hepburn.
Review: But she does a damn good job. And it's obvious that she loves the role and the opportunity to have played her. The negative reviews she's gotten just aren't fair. She certainly gets points for attempting this, and if you'll give the movie half a chance, with an OPEN MIND, she might just prove to you that she's a very good actress.
If you're expecting Audrey, or wanting to compare the two of them, that's just not fair to anyone. I'm glad to have seen the story done so well.

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Summary: Everybody loves Hepburn
Review: Though IMDb.com raised the sort of factual issues that Hepburn fans would have been expected to have known about, the tenor of this biopic is generally warm. The daughter of a baroness, Hepburn's family is reduced to refugee status by the end of WWII, her father missing and presumed dead. Though living below their station, the Hepburn's are generally sunny about their existence. Audrey makes friends easily, but is a failure as a ballerina. She can't sing or dance, and when she gets her first major gig as Gigi, she can't even act. By then, the script settles on Hepburn's charm as her greatest asset. Never having seen Hepburn act, Collette is nevertheless sold on her stage presence. Actors and directors fawn over her, none knowing of her insecurities or a desire for a future involving a stable family life. Though her star rises further, Hepburn struggles to find that sense of security - eluding her in various misfired or purposelessly sabotaged romances (including one with James Hansen, heir to a fortune and founder of Hansen PLC; also William Holden from "Sabrina"). She turns typically to her mother, who happily enough is a supportive parent - aren't parents normally saddled with the blame in these biopics? Famous names and faces cross Audrey's path, but the story makes her the center of attention everywhere - it seems that there's nobody who can resist her charm. The story climaxes with the "Hollywood Ending" final scene of "Breakfast at Tiffany's", hinting to us that Hepburn finally found her emotional center. (The story doesn't go as far as having an older Hepburn star as the elderly Maid Marian, mourning with Sean Connery over their lost love; nor must we endure Love Hewitt grappling in the dark with Alan Arkin from "Wait until dark".)

Love Hewitt manages to sound a lot like Hepburn, but her likeness seems as plagued as those of the other celebrity stand-ins. The makers of this biopic seem painfully aware of how delicate the likenesses are, and they do little to shake up their characters for fear of threatening the resemblance too much. Hewitt's mannerisms seem unconsciously jerky - unlike Hepburn's grace. It's not quite a cutting bio; though perhaps Hepburn doesn't deserve that treatment, a better tribute may just be to kick back with one of her movies. My favorite? "Scharade".

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Summary: Can this BE any more wrong?
Review: As a huge Audrey fan I was disgusted to see that Jennifer Love Hewit was cast to play Audrey in a biopic. Not only does JLH not resemble Audrey in any way but JLH can't act at all, in any fashion. I see this as just another chance for JLH to be overexposed as something she is not (i.e. actress, singer.) If you buy this i recomend burning it when your done.

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Summary: Are You All Crazy???
Review: Jennifer Love Hewitt may not be the glowing glimmering beatiful star that Audrey Hepburn was, but name one actress these days who is. and it is not who played the role it is how well they did. JLH did an excellent job depicting the life of Audrey Hepburn, she showed the same elligence and beauty as Hollie Golightly, and the same innocence and wonder as Princess Anne and Sabrina. this movie was excelent. 5 STARS