Valley of the Dolls

Pros: the red sleeping pills are well photographed
Cons: cliched jumble of a plot, inept acting and directing, the "hit songs" within the movie

When I was in junior high school, one or more paperback copies of what had been a mega-big best-selling trashy novel, Valley of the Dolls, was being passed around by the most "in"/popular girls in the class. Perhaps the girls shared steamy parts ...

Pros: You'll know where that line comes from.
Cons: It still won't be funny.

Sometimes you have to watch a movie simply in order to contextualize one of its most famous lines. I have known people who think that “We don’t need no steenking badges” comes from Mel Brooks’ History of the World—without knowing that Brooks was...

Pros: Still interesting after all these years. I finally "get it."
Cons: some parts look outdated, but what the heck, that's fun!

When I was growing up, I remember a summer spent swimming at our neighborhood pool. All of the moms there, it seemed to me, were reading anew book called "Valley of the Dolls" (by author Jacqueline Susann). I remember thinking this was weird. Why ...

Pros: Sharon Tate; a great 1960s story with midcentury mores on parade; Patty Duke overacting and TREMENDOUS 60s FASHIONS!
Cons: None that I can think of.

It's 1967 and I'm sitting outside on the concrete gymnasium steps watching my classmates during gym class. I could think up more ailments that would allow me to only observe than anyone else in junior high school. Someone had left their books on the step...

Pros: What happens to three young girls who venture into the sometimes shady world of show business ...
Cons: What happens to three young girls who venture into the sometimes shady world of show business ...

With all due respect to the previous reviewer's take on the film version of Jacqueline Susann's best-selling novel "Valley of the Dolls", it must be said that this film has stood the test of time to become the definitive camp trash classic. It...

Pros: Hayward is the only pro in this miserable affair
Cons: Very out of date by today's standards. Does not hold up.

Much as been written over the years regarding this movie. It has obtained a sort of camp classic status over the years. I am not going to bore the reader with what has been written and re-written time and time again. This was Patty Duke's FIRST adult ...

Pros: imagery of Anne's hometown + the soundtrack
Cons: nothing like the book

I've been collecting novels by Jacqueline Susann since I was 15 and "Valley of the Dolls" was my first. My grandmother saw me reading it once and told me about how she worked in a department store back in the day and "had to sell that...

Pros: Star-studded cast and chic 60's style cinematography.
Cons: Not long enough.

In this adaptation of Jaqueline Susann's best-selling novel, Patty Duke, Barbara Perkins and Sharon Tate try to make it in the high-pressure world of entertainment. Ironically, Sharon Tate's character suffers the worst fate of the three in this film....

Pros: go-go costuming and Patty Duke
Cons: choppy edits and disappearing storylines

Maybe you hadda be there. 'The book you read is now the movie you wanted it to be.....' or something like that. ALMOST anyway.
And just when you think they can't go over the top, out come the pole vaults and into the heavens they fly.
Anne...

Pros: Based on a great novel.
Cons: Too bad it doesn't follow the novel at all.

This movie is a terrible version of the book. The story-line jumps through time, skipping over too many parts of the book, making some scene not make any sense. The acting is alright and the actors themselves are good actors, it's just a bad...