Search - Isn't She Great on DVD

MPAA Rating: R Content Advisory: Adult Language Movie Release: 2000 DVD Release: 07/18/2000 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV,Pan and Scan Audio Tracks: English Subtitles: English, French SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 36 mins Studio: Universal Studios Total Copies: 13 Genres: Comedy Drama, Biopic [feature], Showbiz Comedy

Jacqueline Susann spent a long career on the edges of show business as an actress and model, but it never really paid off until she quit acting to write her first novel. Valley of the Dolls was a proudly sleazy potboiler that sold 26 million copies and had readers wondering which characters matched up to which real-life show-biz figures. Susann wrote several other successful novels, but fame and fortune didn't make her life any less tumultuous; she had well-publicized problems with drugs and alcohol and a series of free-wheeling affairs, although she stayed with her husband Irving Mansfield until her death in 1974 at the age of 56. Isn't She Great is a screen biography that focuses on Susann's roller-coaster literary career, with Bette Midler as Susann and Nathan Lane as Mansfield; David Hyde Pierce, Stockard Channing, John Cleese, and Sarah Jessica Parker round out the supporting cast. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Bette Midler - Jacqueline Susann
Nathan Lane - Irving Mansfield
Stockard Channing - Florence Maybelle
David Hyde Pierce - Michael Hastings
John Cleese - Henry Marcus

Andrew Bergman's saucy biopic of Jacqueline Susann comes to DVD with both a 1.85:1 widescreen anamorphic transfer and a 1.33:1 full-frame image. The English soundtrack is available in Dolby Digital 5.1 and is closed-captioned. French subtitles are also available. This is a straightforward disc with the usual theatrical trailer, production notes, and short bios on the cast and the crew. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide