The story of the twilight years of tobacco billionairess Doris Duke and her relationship with her gay butler, to whom she left her entire fortune.The story of the twilight years of tobacco billionairess Doris Duke and her relationship with her gay butler, to whom she left her entire fortune.The story of the twilight years of tobacco billionairess Doris Duke and her relationship with her gay butler, to whom she left her entire fortune.
- Nominated for 10 Primetime Emmys
- 32 nominations total
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- TriviaAfter being shown at a film festival, "Bernard and Doris" was sent directly to cable television rather than premiering in movie theatres.
- Goofs"She said it was important. 'Perhaps I will get the feeling back ..." It's the same body of a newspaper article for two different articles. Around 23 minutes into movie. One article had headline of Doris Duke attending opening with Leonard Bernstein. The second headline was her buying a Boeing 737 for $25 million.
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Waldo Taft: Lucky thing you knowing the judge.
Doris Duke: Oh, I know a lot of people.
Waldo Taft: He seemed awfully happy to see you.
Doris Duke: Ah, well, yes. We had a little moment in the coatroom of the Phillips Club about 20 years ago.
Waldo Taft: I don't find that funny.
Doris Duke: You would if you'd been there.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The 60th Primetime Emmy Awards (2008)
Sarandon delivers the goods in spades, creating a shrewd and intelligent, bristling flesh and blood woman so wealthy and powerful she answers to no one but suffers from those psychic afflictions known only to the super-rich. Her self-administered therapies include astrology, a fanatical devotion to the care of exotic plants (particularly orchids), travel, indiscriminate sex with a succession of boy toys, and of course massive doses of booze and other drugs to keep going from one day to the next. But she is also intelligent, shrewd, a remarkable businesswoman and connoisseur of the fine arts, all convincingly depicted in this film. It's damned entertaining to watch her but if you think about it, no one of her age with that kind of serious drug dependency could look that good. Fiennes matches her every step of the way with a kind of perturbed restraint as the lonely, passive, alcoholic butler. He says at one point that what he wants from Duke is not her money, but just to take care of her. This utterance is completely believable. Unlike the 1999 TV movie about the same pair starring Lauren Bacall and Richard Chamberlain, this butler is much more ambiguous and definitely not a sadistic manipulator.
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- Бернард і Доріс
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- Runtime1 hour 42 minutes
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- 1.78 : 1