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Generally unfavorable - based on 34 Critics What's this?

  • Starring: Bette Midler, Nathan Lane
  • Summary: Andrew Bergman's campy biopic about Jacqueline Susann (Midler), the struggling acress of stage and screen who quit acting to write her first novel, the enormously successful and salacious "Valley of the Dolls."
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 34
  2. Negative: 16 out of 34
  1. Unexpectedly entertaining, if you're willing to put up with the picture's stagy look, over-the-top moods, and heavy doses of vulgarity.
  2. Reviewed by: Robert Horton
    60
    Good enough in spots to make you wish it could have sustained its campier inclinations.
  3. A flabbergasting waste of time and talent.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 2
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 2
  3. Negative: 1 out of 2

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