Isn't She Great

Isn't She Great is a 2000 American biographical comedy-drama film that presents a fictionalized biography of author Jacqueline Susann, played by Bette Midler. An international co-production between the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Japan, the film was directed by Andrew Bergman from a screenplay by Paul Rudnick based on a 1995 New Yorker profile by Michael Korda. The film covers Susann's entire life, focusing on her early struggles as an aspiring actress relentlessly hungry for fame, her relationship with press agent husband Irving Mansfield (Nathan Lane), with whom she had an institutionalized autistic son, her success as the author of Valley of the Dolls, and her battle with and subsequent death from breast cancer. In addition to Midler and Lane, the film stars Stockard Channing as Susann's "gal pal" Florence Maybelle, David Hyde Pierce as book editor Michael Hastings, and John Cleese as publisher Henry Marcus. John Larroquette, Amanda Peet, Christopher McDonald, Debbie Shapiro, and Paul Benedict have supporting roles.

Isn't She Great
Theatrical release poster
Directed byAndrew Bergman
Written byPaul Rudnick
Based on"Wasn't She Great?"
by Michael Korda
Produced byMike Lobell
Starring
CinematographyKarl Walter Lindenlaub
Edited byBarry Malkin
Music byBurt Bacharach
Production
companies
Distributed by
Release date
January 28, 2000 (2000-01-28)
Running time
95 minutes
Countries
  • United States
  • United Kingdom
  • Germany
  • Japan[2]
LanguageEnglish
Budget$44 million
Box office$3 million

Opening in 750 US theaters on January 28, 2000, it received negative reviews from critics and earned only $3 million at the box office, far less than its cost of $44 million.[3] Midler was nominated for a Worst Actress Golden Raspberry Award.

Cast

Production

The film was an international production, with the BBC, Lobell-Bergman Productions, Marbeni, Mutual Film Corporation, Tele München, Toho and Universal Pictures contributing, making it an American-British-German-Japanese co-production.[2] Despite the international production, the film was not released in Japan.[2]

Reception

Isn't She Great was panned by critics, as the film holds a 25% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 61 reviews. The site's consensus states, "Bland material produces entirely forgettable comic performances."[4]

Awards and nominations

Nominations

Footnotes
  1. Brown, Colin (9 May 2000). "Mutual's foreign partners strike $200m credit line". Screen International. Retrieved 22 November 2021.
  2. Galbraith IV 2008, p. 413.
  3. "Isn't She Great (2000) - Financial Information".
  4. "Isn't She Great - Rotten Tomatoes". Rotten Tomatoes.

References
  • Galbraith IV, Stuart (1994). Japanese Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films. McFarland. ISBN 0-89950-853-7.
  • Galbraith IV, Stuart (2008). The Toho Studios Story: A History and Complete Filmography. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-1461673743.
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