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Oscar-winning director Errol Morris presents his most provocative and sexiest film yet. In the late 1970s, Miss Wyoming Joyce McKinney became a tabloid staple when she kidnapped her former beau, a Mormon missionary named Kirk Anderson, and tied him to a bed to deprogram his religious beliefs by having nonstop sex with him. Morris (The Fog of War, The Thin Blue Line) follows the salacious adventures of this beauty queen with an IQ of 168 whose single-minded devotion to the man of her dreams led her across the globe, into jail and onto the front page. Funny, strange and disturbing , TABLOID is a vivid portrait of obsession, delusion and scandal sheet notoriety.
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18 of 20 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
One Crazy Woman Crazy in Love, with a Crazy Idea of How to Get Her Guy.
November 16, 2011
Format:DVD
Documentarian Errol Morris turns his camera to a peculiar would-be love story in "Tabloid", an enormously entertaining film due in large part to its subject and star: Joyce McKinney. McKinney was a former Miss Wyoming and dominatrix-for-hire with an especially romantic, and obsessive, view of love. When she was 19, she went looking for that "special guy" with whom to spend the rest of her earthly days. She found him in Kirk Anderson, a devout Mormon whose lifestyle she did not embrace. But she says Kirk loved her and proposed marriage. Then he took off to England on a religious mission. Joyce followed and, with the help of friend Keith May, kidnapped Kirk at gunpoint, whisked him to a cottage in Devon, tied him to the bed and had sex with him for several days.
McKinney believed she was liberating Kirk from Mormon brainwashing. She says that Kirk did not leave when he easily could have, and they made plans to marry...until Kirk saw his kidnapping in a newspaper and had to come up with a story to save himself from excommunication. Kirk said he was genuinely kidnapped and raped by McKinney. The British tabloids had a field day. Kirk became the "Manacled Mormon", and Joyce was presented as a hopeless romantic or, alternatively, as a manipulative vixen, depending upon which paper you read. The authors of the competing tabloid visions, Peter Tory of The Daily Express, who publicized Joyce's point of view, and Kent Gavin of The Daily Mirror, who dug into her past, are interviewed for the film.
Joyce McKinney tells her own story. She may not possess the mischievous charm that so many men found irresistible 34 years ago, but she is still nutty in a sort of endearing, occasionally frightful way. She never wanted for ingenuity, and she tells a good tale. The part of the story that's missing, unfortunately, is Kirk Anderson's. He would not be interviewed for this film. Too bad. Though I suspect that Joyce is lying or delusional about some aspects of her account, it does seem that Kirk may have been complicit. Joyce's eccentricity has not dulled with the years, though she seems to have abandoned social interaction in favor of dogs. And she seems still to regard love for one individual as permanent and irreplaceable, whether for human or canine.
The DVD (MPI 2011): The only bonus feature is a theatrical trailer (2 min). Subtitles are available in English SDH and Spanish.
McKinney believed she was liberating Kirk from Mormon brainwashing. She says that Kirk did not leave when he easily could have, and they made plans to marry...until Kirk saw his kidnapping in a newspaper and had to come up with a story to save himself from excommunication. Kirk said he was genuinely kidnapped and raped by McKinney. The British tabloids had a field day. Kirk became the "Manacled Mormon", and Joyce was presented as a hopeless romantic or, alternatively, as a manipulative vixen, depending upon which paper you read. The authors of the competing tabloid visions, Peter Tory of The Daily Express, who publicized Joyce's point of view, and Kent Gavin of The Daily Mirror, who dug into her past, are interviewed for the film.
Joyce McKinney tells her own story. She may not possess the mischievous charm that so many men found irresistible 34 years ago, but she is still nutty in a sort of endearing, occasionally frightful way. She never wanted for ingenuity, and she tells a good tale. The part of the story that's missing, unfortunately, is Kirk Anderson's. He would not be interviewed for this film. Too bad. Though I suspect that Joyce is lying or delusional about some aspects of her account, it does seem that Kirk may have been complicit. Joyce's eccentricity has not dulled with the years, though she seems to have abandoned social interaction in favor of dogs. And she seems still to regard love for one individual as permanent and irreplaceable, whether for human or canine.
The DVD (MPI 2011): The only bonus feature is a theatrical trailer (2 min). Subtitles are available in English SDH and Spanish.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
On the DVD case, under the movie's title, it says "A Love Story." But it isn't a love story in the traditional sense; it's a story of what-we-call-"love" in Late Capitalism, a love that can be described the same way that one of the interviewees described the protagonist: "self-obsessed and self-involved and manipulative and barking mad."
I don't want to say much more. You just need to watch it.
But I do need to at least pay respect to two of the greatest moments I've seen on film:
* In the 70th minute, we see home video that Joyce shot from her house. She pans the backyard with her camera 7 or 8 times, each time saying something like, "This shot, made on August 8, 1986, shows absolutely nothing."
* Joyce: "I don't see any connection at all between cloned puppies and a 32-y-o sex-in-chains story."
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As far as I can tell, there are only two truly great filmmakers currently operating, only two filmmakers not just deserving but *requiring* your undivided attention: one is Werner Herzog and the other is Errol Morris.
I don't want to say much more. You just need to watch it.
But I do need to at least pay respect to two of the greatest moments I've seen on film:
* In the 70th minute, we see home video that Joyce shot from her house. She pans the backyard with her camera 7 or 8 times, each time saying something like, "This shot, made on August 8, 1986, shows absolutely nothing."
* Joyce: "I don't see any connection at all between cloned puppies and a 32-y-o sex-in-chains story."
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As far as I can tell, there are only two truly great filmmakers currently operating, only two filmmakers not just deserving but *requiring* your undivided attention: one is Werner Herzog and the other is Errol Morris.
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
When is an Errol Morris documentary ever uninteresting? The acclaimed filmmaker has been crafting award-winning docs for decades now, and Tabloid, proves he still has what it takes. Of course, it certainly helps if your subject is Joyce Bernann McKinney, the former Miss World contestant with a colorful past who turned up in the news again when a woman going by the name of "Bernann McKinney" traveled to South Korea in 2008 to have her pet dog cloned. As chronicled in Tabloid, McKinney was previously tied to a 1977 investigation in which a Mormon missionary living in Surrey, England alleged that McKinney kidnapped him, chained him to a bed, and raped him. Tabloid isn't Morris's most thought-provoking work, but it's nevertheless a smart, spirited, and engaging look at tabloid culture and one very fascinating woman, and that makes for a solidly entertaining film.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
Very unusual true crime....OMG
A well done and artful documentary about a most unusual true crime story. Ms. McKinny is now apparently suing the film maker for slandering her reputation. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Ted Weimann
4.0 out of 5 stars
Tabloid movie
This movie is a hoot from start to finish. One very, very eccentric, perhaps crazy woman with a very strange story.
Published 1 month ago by Catchin' Up
5.0 out of 5 stars
got here quickly
The shipper sent ti to us so quickly. We ordered this and was able to watch it within the week. We would have just rented/or purchased it as an cloud version from amazon, but... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Leah White
3.0 out of 5 stars
Both Interesting and Boring
Miss Wyoming Joyce McKinney became tabloid material years before Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton, and Britney Spears. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Loyd E. Eskildson
3.0 out of 5 stars
4 Star Investigation of a 2 Star Story
So I split the difference. This woman is simply NOT interesting. There is somebody just like her in every town in every state in America. Read more
Published 7 months ago by mr. critic
4.0 out of 5 stars
Skiing naked down mount Everest
The tale of the Mormon missionary abducted at gunpoint in Surrey and press ganged into sexual enslavement by a former Miss Wyoming that had followed him here. Read more
Published 14 months ago by technoguy
5.0 out of 5 stars
Errol Morris at his best
A bizarre and interesting tale, told as only Errol Morris can, proving once again that life is stranger than fiction.
Published 16 months ago by Tom Miller
4.0 out of 5 stars
Forced Honeymoon of Lusty Dreams...
Joyce McKinney, the primary subject of Errol Morris' jovial 2010 documentary "Tabloid," is living proof fact is indeed stranger than fiction. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Chris Wilson
5.0 out of 5 stars
Fun interesting story! keeps you engaged
We rented this on Amazon Prime last night on a whim (via our Roku). What a pleasant surprise!!! The movie is well done, and the story couldn't get much more bizarre. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Linda S
4.0 out of 5 stars
A Must-see for Errol Morris fans - For "newbies" this will introduce...
If you've seen Errol Morris's previous documentaries (including the Oscar-winning "The thin Blue Line"), his filming technique will not be new to you. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Steven I. Ramm
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