Product: The Audrey Hepburn Story [VHS] (2000)
Rating: 3.0
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This is a light and frothy attempt to tell the life story of the 1st 30 years of Hepburn's life. Why do I have a problem with that? Well, first of all, she lived until she was 63, she divorced Mel Ferrer, got remarried and divorced, and "shacked up" with another man for the final 13 years of her life. She struggled to have a child. Her 2nd husband was unfaithful. She had little contact with her father. She didn't do much of the singing in "My Fair Lady." She suffered during the 2nd World War. This movie, if it was REALLY telling the TRUE Audrey Hepburn story, would have chronicled all this in greater detail. Yes, Hepburn was a great actress who became a cherished icon. Yes, she was a fine human being whose tireless work for UNICEF brought her much praise and attention to the forgotten children of this world, but she was a human being too with struggles not unlike what we "mere mortals" have to endure. My fellow reviewers and I could have identified with her a lot more if she had been portrayed a person with faults and problems, not as a pristine, cardboard icon.