"The Positively True Adventures..." is a surprisingly smart and effective look at how power-hungry and ruthless the media can be on such a small matter. Even though the film looks like a screwball comedy, it's actually a satire not far from the similarly themed "To Die For".
Holly Hunter and Beau Bridges are excellent in their roles, deserving the praise and awards they got for them. Even though the documentary-style outtakes are distracting at first, it shows that Hunter can easily become the character she's portraying.
The last half hour of the film is the best, when the central characters are all being confronted by the media to sell their stories, and most major networks are planning to make a movie. Hunter's character claims that she doesn't want her life to be made into a cheesy TV movie-of-the-week, and it hasn't: it's been made into an intelligent satirical look at the mass media. 8/10.
Holly Hunter and Beau Bridges are excellent in their roles, deserving the praise and awards they got for them. Even though the documentary-style outtakes are distracting at first, it shows that Hunter can easily become the character she's portraying.
The last half hour of the film is the best, when the central characters are all being confronted by the media to sell their stories, and most major networks are planning to make a movie. Hunter's character claims that she doesn't want her life to be made into a cheesy TV movie-of-the-week, and it hasn't: it's been made into an intelligent satirical look at the mass media. 8/10.