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  • 1999
  • Castle Hill Productions
  • 1 h 22 m
  • 1999
  • Castle Hill Productions
  • 1 h 22 m

Summary Filmmaker Teresa Blake's portrait of an 88-year-old man with a trail of Texas Exes: Houston oil man, Hollywood playboy, hotshot lawyer and serial monogamist Tommy Blake on a quirky and intimate journey, a daughter looks beyond myth, money, and society -- and all that hair -- in seeking the truth of her father. (Asset Pictures)

Directed By: Tessa Blake

Written By: Tessa Blake

  • 1999
  • Castle Hill Productions
  • 1 h 22 m
  • 1999
  • Castle Hill Productions
  • 1 h 22 m

Five Wives, Three Secretaries and Me

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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Summary Filmmaker Teresa Blake's portrait of an 88-year-old man with a trail of Texas Exes: Houston oil man, Hollywood playboy, hotshot lawyer and serial monogamist Tommy Blake on a quirky and intimate journey, a daughter looks beyond myth, money, and society -- and all that hair -- in seeking the truth of her father. (Asset Pictures)

Directed By: Tessa Blake

Written By: Tessa Blake

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Mixed or Average Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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25% Positive
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5 Reviews
13% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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25% Positive
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63% Mixed
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13% Negative
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A relentlessly good-humored, life-affirming film.
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An engaging documentary.
By Lou Lumenick FULL REVIEW
60
Oddly charming.
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50
As full of flickering warmth as it is bereft of larger insight.
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50
A privileged peek into the glitzy world of Texas's ultra-rich, minus the melodrama.
By Ken Fox FULL REVIEW
50
(The filmmaker) never does achieve the breakthrough with her father that she and we hoped for.
By Lawrence Toppman FULL REVIEW
38
A personal documentary on a family member. The question is, who -- outside of friends and family -- would want to watch it? The answer...is ... beyond me.
By Jack Mathews FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Asset Pictures
Release Date Oct 15, 1999
Duration 1 h 22 m
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Website http://www.fivewives.com/
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