Isn't She Great is a 2000 biographical comedy-drama film that presents a fictionalized biography of author Jacqueline Susann, played by Bette Midler. An international co-production between the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Japan, the film was directed by Andrew Bergman from a screenplay by Paul Rudnick based on a 1995 New Yorker profile by Michael Korda. The film covers Susann's entire life, focusing on her early struggles as an aspiring actress relentlessly hungry for fame, her relationship with press agent husband Irving Mansfield (Nathan Lane), with whom she had an institutionalized autistic son, her success as the author of Valley of the Dolls, and her battle with and subsequent death from breast cancer. In addition to Midler and Lane, the film stars Stockard Channing as Susann's "gal pal" Florence Maybelle, David Hyde Pierce as book editor Michael Hastings, and John Cleese as publisher Henry Marcus. John Larroquette, Amanda Peet, Christopher McDonald, Debbie Shapiro, and Paul Benedict have supporting roles.

 

Opening in 750 US theaters on January 28, 2000, it received negative reviews from critics and earned only $3 million at the box office, far less than its cost of $44 million. Midler was nominated for a Worst Actress Golden Raspberry Award.

 

Cast

Bette Midler as Jacqueline Susann

Nathan Lane as Irving Mansfield

Stockard Channing as Florence Maybelle

David Hyde Pierce as Michael Hastings

John Cleese as Henry Marcus

Amanda Peet as Debbie Klausman

John Larroquette as Maury Manning

Christopher McDonald as Brad Bradburn

Dina Spybey as Bambi Madison

Larry Block as Herbie

Frank Vincent as Aristotle Onassis

James Villemaire as Jim Morrison

Paul Benedict as Prof. Brainiac

Sam Street as Truman Capote

 

 

 

 

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