Product Details

• Actors: Pamela Nyberg, Sam Wells, Stephen Collins, Stephen Pearlman, Stan Kelly
• Format: Box set, Color, NTSC
• Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Number of tapes: 3
• Studio: New Horizons Home En
• VHS Release Date: September 11, 1995
• Run Time: 360 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6303142044
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #172,833 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must-see film for Jackie lovers everywhere, April 21, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Woman Named Jackie Box Set [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is an elegant and classy movie for everyone to watch and thoroughly enjoy. It shows Jackie's life with JFK in great detail, and her life with the big 'O' before his death. From this, we can see how Jackie fits the role of the First Lady like a glove, and how she battles with JFK's extra marital affaires, with Monroe, to name one. Roma plays Jackie just how she was: charismatic, glitzy and above all, HUMAN. For anyone who is interested in Jackie's life, and what she endured during her years in the White House, read, Edward Klein's All Too Human. It is a wonderful book, and I take my hat off to him as the information that he embodies in this story is so accurate, you would think that he had been a fly on the wall throughout Jackie and Jack's entire relationship - even his affaires with the goddess, Marilyn Monroe. This is a great buy for anyone with a heart. JUST BUY IT!!!!!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Incomplete Movie About Jacklyn Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, March 30, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Woman Named Jackie Box Set [VHS] (VHS Tape)

She had class, style, complete elegance and grace that swept through the White House and on Ari Onassis' yacht, "the Christina". This movie is about the life of our beloved 1960's American First Lady. Although this film gives fact by fact and detail after detail, it isn't an up to date film of Jackie's life. It seems to be missing the last years of her life which includes her beau, Maurice Templesman, and her heart wrenching death against cancer. If you are a die-hard J.F.K. or Jackie O' fan and lover, this film is for you! Just buy it!

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Interestomg and provocative look at America's Queen, January 15, 2001

By 

Robin Orlowski "political activist" (United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Woman Named Jackie Box Set [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Although it is both hillarious and inidicative of his acting range to see Stephen Colins (who really is a licenced minister) play JFK, I was also impressed by Roma Downey's acting in this film. There are so many other big names involved in the production and acting that I would not know where to start.

Jaqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis was not as perfect as she had to appear in the media, but was human like the rest of us. I had seen numerous specials on the Kennedys before, but (like the book of the same name) felt that both the positive and negative aspects of her character were covered in a fair manner.

Both in the book and this movie, I sensed that Jaqueline's frustration came less from her husband's daliances (after all, she was rumored to have several of her own)than from the fact that society expected her to behave like the prim and proper hausfrau more epitomized in her mother-in-law Rose. Jaqueline had much greater ambitions for herself as dramatized in the storyline.

Jaqueline revisited is a liberating figure because she is able to transcend these barriers while looking the part of the quintesential wife. To JFK's credit, he appears to have accepted it more than many other men of his generation. The fact that JFK grew unparalled closeness to her right before his infamous assaination is especially tearjerking.

One thing that I did not care for was the usage of the questionable Max Jacobsen. While this also proves just how prophetic the presidential couple were with their social behavior, it is also chilling at times. To think that two highly educated people would asociate with a shady character is downright scary.