The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe (2015)

Must See Movie...

best movie i've ever seen.

It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

This was an excellent mini series that did a good job stringing together an assortment of Marilyn's life, albeit not all of it. But my, that would be impossible. I think they did a great job at creating a narrative with what they could, and that Kelli Garner was absolutely wonderful. She captured the nuances of Marilyn in a way no other actress has quite been able to.

From the beginning i wasn't happy when i heard about this project, and that is for an important reason : Marilyn Monroe's life is like Anna Karenina which is impossible to capture in only two hours or even two episodes ( even she only lived for 36 years) u cant make it in this short hours so the best thing for this case is to capture every important thing as a movie ( just like My week with Marilyn 2011) starring Michelle Williams. so in the future i recommend film makers for example to shoot a whole movie about the Misfits 1961 etc. the second big problem is the actress who played Marilyn in this film (Kelli Garner) she doesn't look like MM , she isn't pretty and even doesn't act like the real Marilyn God sake. I recommend who wants to film a thing about marilyn to read biographies about her and listen to documentaries cause there are a lot of long mistake for ex: when Marilyn met the life magazine journalist it was totally in a different way , and when she went out of the hospital Joe DiMaggio wasn't with here it was Pat Newcomb .

Over the years, there have been countless movies about screen icon, Marilyn Monroe, so I was not really all that excited about getting to see this latest one- a Lifetime TV mini-series, that is- until I heard Kelli Garner was starring in the lead. I've seen her in several things over the years, and remember thinking- long before this movie- that, even though she doesn't really resemble Marilyn, she still has that similar spirit; especially in a little movie I saw her in years ago called "DreamLand".Now this movie doesn't really give us anything new about Ms. Monroe; in fact, pretty much re-hashes what we all have seen over and over again in the movies released about her in the past few decades. And BTW- I would say my favs. over the years have been "Blonde", which featured Poppy Montgomery in the lead, and the wonderful experimental HBO film, "Normal Jean & Marilyn", which featured Mira Sorvino & Ashley Judd in the dual personas. I saw the last one, "My Week with Marilyn", a few years ago- which was probably the one which featured the highest production values of all of them. It's funny, overall I liked that film better than this new Lifetime film, but I like Kelli Garner better in the role than Michelle Williams. There are shots in this film, especially while she is making "Seven Year Itch", where she was just the spitting image- I had to do a double take!But I will give this a marginal recommendation- only for Garner's performance. Jeffrey Dean Morgan (as Joe DiMaggio), Emily Watts, Jack Noseworthy, and Oscar winner Susan Sarandon (as Marilyn/Norma Jean's mother) co-star.

Kelli Garner does an admirable job in this biography of tragic screen legend Marilyn Monroe. Did anyone notice that early in the career of Monroe, Garner sounded just like Monroe did as Sugar in "Some Like it Hot?" Unfortunately, no mention was made of 'Hot' in the film as well as "Niagara," where Monroe did a solid dramatic role.The use of flashbacks is used nicely here as Monroe recounts her life story to a new therapist. We already see that Monroe had been around the block in therapy and knew a lot about Freudian psychology.Susan Sarandon stole the show as her schizophrenic mother, devoid at times of reality, but protective of her famous daughter.Jeffrey Dean Stanton shows us Joe DiMaggio in a different light-that of a wife beater and the Arthur Miller character is also abusive to the hilt.While the Kennedy issue is discussed, Marilyn's death is blamed on drug and alcohol mixture. Marilyn came across as delusional imitating her mother and grandmother every step of the way.