https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNnFX6ekgYc
When I first moved to LA, I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to interview Brittany Murphy. The two of us bonded over our brown curly hair, although her’s was not curly at the time. She was sweet, innocent, loveable and someone you could totally see being good friends with. She just oozed star quality. Amanda Fuller (who is even worse in this than she is on Last Man Standing) captured none of these qualities in The Brittany Murphy Story that airs tonight on Lifetime at 8p.
Not only is she horribly miscast, but the biopic is also totally unnecessary. There is nothing interesting about this choppy tale. They skip over some of her highlights for I don’t know what filler. You do not learn anything about this late great actress.
She was discovered in acting class, did a commercial, convinced her mom to move to LA and started acting. She did several TV shows, but that is barely a blip in the story. Then she did Clueless, and a lot of red carpets. Just when she was getting big, her mom’s second diagnosis of breast cancer took over her life. She gave up acting for a while to be with her mom, and Hollywood forgot about her. Since she is at her lowest point, she starts dating former-photographer Simon Monjack (Eric Petersen, he was completely forgettable as Kirstie Alley’s son on that crappy TV Land sitcom). Even though people warn her against him, she marries him. He gives her pills, prescription only, to help her with different ailments like depression.
Finally, she gets sick and refuses to go to the hospital because she doesn’t want more rumors of drug abuse spread about her. It is a fatal mistake as we know, and the movie ends. Before the credits roll, they tell us, what we already knew, about her death.
So this movie tells us nothing new. It doesn’t portray her as the special person that she was and Amanda Fuller is just hideous in the role. Therefore, if you were thinking of watching, there has to be something else you can do. I mean, sleeping is even more exciting than watching this dull, poorly done movie.
It is shame that Brittany Murphy’s story is told this way because she deserved so much better than this piece of sh!t.
