I Am Woman

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BJ M @HotMovieStar 10/19/2024 I really enjoyed this film. Great music, great acting, great message. See more 05/21/2021 I enjoyed this one and thought it was a good look into the woman and musician that Helen Reddy became during the late 60's & 70's era. I was a good flashback as I remember her being one of my mother's favorite singers. See more 02/28/2021 The singing style reminded me of the time so ... 70's Good. You recall Karen Carpenter and others of the era. It's the placement of words and phrasing, the phrases since in tributes make the song less laid back. Like Dusty Springfield and Aretha Franklin's versions of 'son of a preacher man', today's makes "I am Woman" from a 70s recording of that time to the attitude of the today its "woman hear me roar! " And the original is a good amazing recording, and I will listen to current versions differently. Tilda did an amazing job, the costumes rock and I wonder where to shop for those clothes. The dynamic between the business partner and the male role as manager to the superstar, seeing the man supporting her and uncomfortable with suggested male female roles. The feminist and the judgement of one compared to money and the effort of one mans effort in a woman's success they tried to ... His part in her and hers his story. Sad they those who judged didn't realize they had their own cheerleaders at home themselves and there was an equality that societally different but only from the lense you look through. We have come a long way. And these movies are an important part of the american & world wide women's path. The steps up. The growth that one woman's voice became two and then a roar. On the lawn in D.C. in a women's march, I'd love be to see a documentary on. We've done so much as have our men. Men who made it possible for women make the record, who published the book, who stood up for an artist. See more 02/23/2021 Trying to cram Helen Reddy's career into one biopic is understandably a huge challenge. "I Am Woman" is a worthy film but for those who know more of the story of Helen Reddy this biopic missed a lot. However, it remains an entertaining film none the less. See more Jerod S @jeroduptown 02/08/2021 Before this movie I had never heard of Helen Reddy - but it seems she had a pretty good run of things back in the 60s/70s. I had never heard of the anthem that she sang for the women's lib movement. The movie shows some of her struggles as a woman and single mom, but doesn't elicit much emotion dramatically or musically. See more Alan W @PatronWong 01/26/2021 My interests in this film were piqued only after Mark Kermode named it one of his 10 Worst in 2020. Granted, I can't argue that this biopic isn't terribly conventional and wouldn't look out of place as a Lifetime Movie of the week, but I'd consider it only marginally worse than, and play about as safe as, the Oscar-winning Bohemian Rhapsody, which frankly irritated me more. Charting the rise and fall of Helen Reddy, the Australian songstress/activist, from the late 60s as a determined single mother in NYC struggling to make ends meet, to her rise to fame in the 70s after meeting her future husband/manager Jeff Wald, and then the inevitable decline in the 80s, both financially, as a result of Wald's excesses, and commercially, as she falls out of favour; every narrative beat and turn here are heavily signposted and soaked in familiarity. It's bad enough that her story appears to be entirely made up of rock-and-roll cliches, but screenwriter Emma Jensen's superficial and unsophisticated treatment just made things worse. Tilda Cobham-Hervey's performance as the wholesome Reddy is admirable but dull, while the entire cast is lumbered with delivering Jensen's clunky and hokey dialogue. Yet, I don't think better dialogue could've saved Evan Peters' hammy portrayal of Wald. Call it nostalgia peddling if you must, but where the film works is reminding us of her songs and the significance they had if only for a moment in time. On the other hand, for a film set during the Women's Liberation movement that sees its central female character fights and prospers within a patriarchal industry and writes an anthem for that movement, it's ironic that it's the sisterhood between two working women: Reddy and her journalist bestie Lillian Roxon, that the film ultimately fails to do proper justice to. See more Read all reviews

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