Denny Dillon has an irritating voice but it's not the right irritating voice to play Roseanne. I just couldn't "get" her as Roseanne. Aside from the lousy dialog and the bad acting, it would have been okay if the actress playing Roseanne had actually been believable as Roseanne. I just didn't couldn't think of Denny Dillon as Roseanne. I could have ignored everything else that was wrong with this movie if only the lead had been believable. Oh well, I figured as much since I was watching this on Lifetime the channel for battered women, oops, I mean women. Blecch, blecch, blecch. I also disliked how they showed scenes from the present day and then flashed back to the past. In one particular scene (POSSIBLE SPOILER!!!), they flashed back to the sixties or seventies, and they had suddenly switched from using the actress playing "young Roseanne" to the actress playing the "current day Roseanne" except it was supposed to be the sixties and the actress playing the current day Roseanne looks like she's forty no matter what kind of hippie dress you put her in. Put we're supposed to believe that she's Roseanne in her twenties, ogling some guy who answers the door at some house in Colorado (or wherever she took a bus to, I wasn't paying close attention). And this guy is ogling her back, yeah right, he's ogling some forty-year-old frump in a muumuu. He couldn't even act like he was looking at a twenty-year-old, he was so bad.
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Not really sure what to think of this film.
itsmrbigtoyou3 December 2012
Warning: Spoilers
Okay, so I stumbled upon two old TV spots for this film on YouTube and was curious about it and wanted to see it.
I went to eBay and then found a VHS copy of it being auctioned at a really low price, so out of curiosity, I placed a bid on the film, not really being bothered if I didn't win.
Turns out, I did win the auction and the film came today and I've just watched it.
Where do I begin?
It's very uneven and seems like the script was written by someone who works for a gossip column, scandal sheet or a tabloid.
There are just so many errors in it, from the casting of the actors (blue-eyed Denny Dillon as dark-eyed Roseanne?!?!) who for the large part look NOTHING like those who they are portraying.
There are many 'wtf' moments here, with the bizarre flashing forward-flashing back of scenes throughout and at times it seems like you're watching something which has no point.
Gossip, badly-written dialogue, errors all over the place.
You'd wonder why they even bothered with this, and what the actors thought of the actual production?
An unauthorised biography it may definitely be, but more to the point, it's hardly even worthy of having the word 'biography' in the title at all since there's so many inaccuracies throughout the film and the jumbled, jump-cut editing of scenes does nothing to help this.
I went to eBay and then found a VHS copy of it being auctioned at a really low price, so out of curiosity, I placed a bid on the film, not really being bothered if I didn't win.
Turns out, I did win the auction and the film came today and I've just watched it.
Where do I begin?
It's very uneven and seems like the script was written by someone who works for a gossip column, scandal sheet or a tabloid.
There are just so many errors in it, from the casting of the actors (blue-eyed Denny Dillon as dark-eyed Roseanne?!?!) who for the large part look NOTHING like those who they are portraying.
There are many 'wtf' moments here, with the bizarre flashing forward-flashing back of scenes throughout and at times it seems like you're watching something which has no point.
Gossip, badly-written dialogue, errors all over the place.
You'd wonder why they even bothered with this, and what the actors thought of the actual production?
An unauthorised biography it may definitely be, but more to the point, it's hardly even worthy of having the word 'biography' in the title at all since there's so many inaccuracies throughout the film and the jumbled, jump-cut editing of scenes does nothing to help this.
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