Product: The Audrey Hepburn Story [VHS] (2000)
Rating: 3.0
Is it up-to Audrey's standards? No, but it's worth seeing!
Audrey Hepburn has been celebrated as one of the most famous actresses of the 1950s and 1960s, along with Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Ava Gardner, Kim Novak, Doris Day, Natalie Wood, etc., however, I do believe HBO could've done a bit better by this famous and good-acting beauty! Jennifer Love Hewitt, who plays Miss Hepburn, resembles her somewhat, yet I do believe her acting could've been a bit better. The main thing I do not like about this film biography is that it doesn't contain ALL of Miss Hepburn's life. It starts with her on the set of "Breakfast at Tiffany's" (1961) and then goes back and forth through her past and up through her early life, her beginning years in show business, and her breakthrough as a Hollywood mega-star. However, the film doesn't go passed 1961. At the end, the film is still set on the "Breakfast at Tiffany's" set in 1961, and doesn't even show her later life, her social activism, and her death. It does, however, mention her films after 1961 and her death, but this it! THAT'S NOT ENOUGH!!!!! The feature spends WAY TOO MUCH TIME (in my opinion) on her early life. Don't get me wrong, it is interesting about Hepburn's early life, but her Hollywood limelight career is MORE INTERESTING and MORE BELIEVABLE!!!! If you are a HUGH Hepburn fan, I suggest you search for bigger and better Biographies on her, but if you are just interested in learner more about her, I believe this could be a good piece of Hepburn-inspired to see.