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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: DAVIS,JUDY
EAN: 0786936170399
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Miramax
Manufacturer: Miramax
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Miramax
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 22, 2002
Running Time: 170 minutes
Sales Rank: 6219
Studio: Miramax
Theatrical Release Date: February 25, 2001
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Dramatization of Judy Garland's life from the 1930's until her death.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: PG
Release Date: 14-OCT-2003
Media Type: DVD
Amazon.com:
Pulling off the rare feat of winning Emmys for portraying the same role, Judy Davis and Tammy Blanchard raise this widely watched TV movie above the usual weepy-biopic standard. Since the project is based on a memoir by Lorna Luft, Judy Garland's 'other' daughter, the emphasis is on Garland's rocky post-MGM years, spotlighting marriages, pills, and spectacular stage comebacks. Davis handles the neurotic swoops with authority; when Garland sighs on her birthday, 'I'm 47 today--with my life, that makes me 412,' you believe her. One thing she can't capture is Garland's onscreen incandescence: Davis's lip-syncing of 'The Trolley Song' is expert but joyless. The luminous young Blanchard (who won the supporting actress trophy) has a physical and vocal resemblance to the former Frances Gumm that's often breathtaking, and the Wizard of Oz sequences look like outtakes from the real thing. Too much TV-flick telescoping dooms the movie to sketchiness, but those performances are over the rainbow. --Robert Horton
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Judy Davis IS Judy Garland!
Judy Davis deserved her Emmy win for her scary and accurate portrayal of Judy Garland! It was hard to tell who was the real Judy!
Rating:  - Too many cut scenes-
The VHS version has cut scenes, too-Where is the whole story of Artie Shaw breaking her heart? Unless I'm dreaming, I saw this plot line in the original on TV-I just got mine in the mail today and I am so disappointed-I'm afraid to see what else was cut-The reason I bought the VHS version instead of the DVD was an earlier reviewer said it was the DVD that cut scenes-
Still a crackerjack performance for all concerned-
Rating: - AMAZING job by Tammy Blanchard
For picky hardcore Garland fans who are looking for a movie that strictly sticks to the facts, presents them in the exact order that they happened, and doesn't deviate from the truth one iota, well...you'll have a field day pointing out the errors in "Me and My Shadows" (although I would say the movie does a somewhat better job of being factual than the book; apparently there were a few who "overrode" the filtered memories of Lorna Luft). If you can enjoy this movie as entertainment that gets the ... Read More
Rating: - A Must for Judy Garland Fans
The good acting--and drop-jaw lookalikeness--of not only actress Judy Davis as the mature Judy Garland but whoever it was who played the Judy we know from the Wizard of Oz makes this the essential DVD for Garland fans. This younger actress, whose name I do not recall, is just sensational as the Garland we mostly identify with. If you have Garland's movies, you must have this as well, all put together by her not-as-well-known daughter Lorna Luft. You will watch this one over and over.
Rating: - Amazing
This was probably the best made-for-television film or miniseries of the last decade.
Tammy Blanchard, who prior to this had been on "Guiding Light", was truly amazing as the younger Judy. And there simply is not enough superlatives or adjectives in the dictionary to describe the fabulous Judy Davis and what she did with the role as "adult" Judy.
I would give this, on a larger scale, a 90 or 95 out of 100. The movie has ONE glaring mistake in it, and that is that Davis ... Read More
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