I don't know much about Sylvia Plath, but I do think that Gwynneth Paltrow did a great job of showing the various emotions and reactions to the events in her life. This movie kept my attention for the duration of the movie. The heartache of infidelity was well portrayed. The cruelty and tragedy of it all believable.

Given the budget, the inability to use any poetry within the script, and the potentially disgustingly sensational roads the film could have taken, I think that Jeffs, Craig, Brownlow, and especially Paltrow do a wonderful job. Their work is excellent, real and moving.

this movie is horrible. aside from gwyneth paltrow being totally wrong for the part because of her inability to portray a character with much depth and the fact that she didn't even bother to sport brown contacts, darken her hair, or try the new england accent in order to at least resemble plath in some minor way, this film is grossly inaccurate. anyone who even bothered to do any research couldn't have made such astounding fallacies (i.e. making her mother aurelia plath a rich, mansion dwelling socialite, with servants when, in fact, she was a hardworking typing teacher, barely able to maintain her middle class status, who, by all accounts, did not live in a mansion). i wonder why the filmmakers bothered if they weren't even going to attempt an accurate account of plath and her struggles with life, death, motherhood, marriage, and poetry. instead, they portray her as a bitter wife, jealous of her husband's fame. though plath was, no doubt, bitter and jealous during her life, as her journals demonstrate, she was also so much more than that and this movie fails to capture her depth and intensity. … Expand

Boring, and the suicide scene was made to look romanticized yet, it was really a horrific moment in which a woman's battle with sanity was lost. i also found it intolerable how gwyneth couldnt even use sylvia's prominent accent, and looked nothing like her. i couldnt think of a worse actress for the role or a worse movie for this amazing poet.