Bettie's
legendary fetish poses made her the target of a Senate investigation
into pornography, and transformed her into an erotic icon who
continues to enthrall fans to this day.
Release
Date: April 14, 2006 (NY, LA, SF) Studio: Picturehouse Director: Mary Harron
Screenwriter: Mary Harron, Guinevere Turner Starring: Gretchen Mol, Lili Taylor, Jonathan M. Woodward, David
Strathairn, Cara Seymour, Tara Subkoff, Kevin Carroll Genre: Drama Official Website: TheNotoriousBettiePage.com MPAA Rating: R (for nudity, sexual content and some language)
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SYNOPSIS
From
Mary Harron ("I Shot Andy Warhol," "American Psycho") comes "The
Notorious Bettie Page," a provocative exploration of sexuality,
religion and pop culture as she takes us into the 1950s and
the fascinating world of famous pin-up girl, Bettie Page. In
an incandescent performance, Gretchen Mol stars as Bettie Page,
who grew up in a conservative religious family in Tennessee
and became a photo model sensation in 1950s New York.
Bettie's legendary fetish poses made her the target of a Senate investigation
into pornography, and transformed her into an erotic icon who continues to enthrall
fans to this day.
Manages
to celebrate innocent sexuality.
Without ever really showing us any.
To
be sure, there's plenty of wink-wink and nudge-nudge in Notorious.
But writer-director Mary Harron presents such a matter-of-fact
portrayal of Page's story that we're also quite confident that
there's more to the Hefner worldview than just silk robes and
martinis. It's not all merely innocent fun. — Continued
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