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- 1970
- NC-17
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 49 m
- 1970
- NC-17
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 49 m
Summary Three girls come to Hollywood to make it big, but find only sex, drugs and sleaze.
Written By: Roger Ebert
- 1970
- NC-17
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 49 m
- 1970
- NC-17
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 49 m
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
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5.6
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Summary Three girls come to Hollywood to make it big, but find only sex, drugs and sleaze.
Written By: Roger Ebert
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
60
60% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
20% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
20% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
60
60% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
20% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
20% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
While Roger Ebert’s screenplay contains overt jabs at Hollywood’s culture of exploitation, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls cannot be called anything but sincere regarding its penchant for buxom female anatomy.
The madcap, sexy, borderline-surrealist film is impossible to summarize, but calling it a fast-and-loose Hollywood fantasia on A Midsummer Night’s Dream would not be totally inaccurate.
It's quite funny at times, and the expert direction is never less than vigorous, though in retrospect it seems to have marked the end of Meyer's most appealing period—his comic spirit was more expansive before he learned the word camp.
Russ Meyer's Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is an outrageously entertaining cult classic, and probably one of the most bizarre movies ever produced by a major Hollywood studio.
Not a sequel to the bland film of Jacqueline Susann’s trashy best-seller, this is more like a demented remake, alternating modish psychedelia with deliberately square moralising.
This trashy, gaudy, sound-stage vulgarity about low life among the high life is as funny as a burning orphanage.
As bad as Ebert’s screenplay is, Meyer’s direction is just as choppy. The film also looks ugly.
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