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Original title: Notorious Bettie Page, The
Release Date
• USA: Apr 14, 2006
BoxOffice: $1.4M
Official Website:
The Notorious Bettie Page Website
MPAA Rating
Rated R for nudity, sexual content and some language.
Running Time
1 hour, 40 minutes
Country USA
Production Companies
HBO Films, Killer Films, IFC Films, John Wells Productions
Studio Picturehouse
More info on IMDb.com
Other Titles
• The Ballad of Bettie Page
• The Last Days of Bettie Page
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Genre: Drama
Tagline: Show Some Restraint.
Plot: Director Mary Harron (I SHOT ANDY WARHOL) and writer Guinevere Turner (GO FISH, THE L WORD) deliver a loving, whimsical biopic of the century’s greatest pinup queen. The film also offers a highly relevant commentary on the sexual mores of the 1950s, as well as stunning cinematography by W. Mott Hupfel III that perfectly captures the age. Played by the lovely Gretchen Mol (THE SHAPE OF THINGS) in a career-making performance, Bettie Page is portrayed as a sweet but strangely wise naïf from Tennessee, buffeted by circumstances outside her control but buoyed by an innate, cheerful optimism. After an abusive marriage and a brutal gang rape, Bettie flees to New York and begins a modeling career, for which she has a natural talent and which she does with an uncommon joy and palpable enthusiasm. She also begins acting lessons, but what really changes her life are the bondage photographs she takes with Irving and Paula Klaw (Chris Bauer and Lili Taylor). Shot in the basement of the Klaws' celebrity photography business, Bettie’s photographs were among the first harbingers of a society’s awakening sexuality, and her ability to project boundless delight--no matter what activity she is engaged in--is truly remarkable to behold. Eschewing the sensational, the film instead unfolds at a
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| Directed by |
Mary Harron
American Psycho, I Shot Andy Warhol, Big Love |
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| Written by |
Mary Harron
American Psycho, I Shot Andy Warhol, This Film Is Not Yet Rated |
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| Mark Suozzo
American Splendor, The Last Days of Disco, Barcelona |
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