The Notorious Bettie Page
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- Synopsis
- The most successful pin-up of the 1950s, Bettie Page's (Gretchen Mol) legendary photographs made her the target of a Senate investigation into pornography, and turned her into one of the first sex icons....
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- Director(s)
- Mary Harron
- Distributor(s)
- Picturehouse
- MPAA Rating
- R
- Runtime
- 100 min.
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Chicago Sun-Times | Roger EbertAdd Critic to Favorites
Gretchen Mol is finally the key to the mysterious appeal of the film, to its sweetness and sadness.Read the full review
Entertainment Weekly | Owen GleibermanAdd Critic to Favorites
The movie, in a sense, is just like Bettie's photos: all glorious surface. The Notorious Bettie Page captures, with seductive finesse, how Bettie Page happened, yet what it leaves us with is the tantalizing enigma of a girl who couldn't truly be ''bad'' because she made sex divinely delicious.Read the full review
The Onion (A.V. Club) | Keith PhippsAdd Critic to Favorites
Mol nails it, in a performance that should earn her a comeback on a Heath Ledger-like scale.Read the full review
