Florence Foster Jenkins

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Call Number: Blu-ray Comedy Florence
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Traverwood Adult A/V 1-week checkout	Blu-ray Comedy Florence	1-week checkout	Due 05-04-2024

Originally released as a motion picture in 2016.
Blu-ray special features: deleted scenes, "The Music and songs of Florence", "Designing the Look", "From Script to Screen", Q&A with Meryl Streep, Live at Carnegie Hall, "Ours is a Happy World."
MPAA rating: PG-13.
Meryl Streep, Hugh Grant, Simon Helberg, Rebecca Ferguson, Nina Arianda.
Comedy drama based on the true story of the American opera singer. World renowned as a virtuosic pianist, Florence Foster Jenkins has a new dream: to become a famous opera singer. Her voice, however, leaves a lot to be desired and she becomes famous for her lack of talent. Despite the constant critisicm from her peers and audiences which Florence's manager and partner St. Clair Bayfield (Hugh Grant) endeavours to keep from her, Florence battles on and, with St. Clair's help, she conquers the New York stage to become a household name.
Blu-ray, widescreen; DTS-HD Master audio (English), 5.1 Dolby digital (Spanish); requires Blu-ray player.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Okay submitted by DL on June 22, 2017, 1:09pm You may want to mute part of this movie. It is like fingernails on a chalkboard.

Hilarious yet Inspiring submitted by Aveliney on July 7, 2018, 2:16pm This woman was not going to let anyone kill her dreams! What a story. Meryl, as always, is fabulous. The supporting cast shines as well. I love this story and its a great movie!

Clever submitted by kathscot on July 7, 2018, 2:34pm A cleverly made movie. Excellent acting and an inspiring story.

It's more entertaining than you might think to watch bad singing. submitted by lisa on July 2, 2019, 3:42pm All cuz it's someone's story.

delightful submitted by yufamily on August 25, 2019, 9:21pm A nice cast of actors

The mainstreaming of outsider music submitted by answer-beat on June 26, 2023, 9:20pm Unlike most people who have seen (or will see) this movie, I was well aware of Florence Foster Jenkins' music and story for decades before I watched this, and was honestly very surprised Hollywood decided to make a major motion picture about the semi-obscure figure. WFMU DJ Irwin Chusid devoted a chapter to Jenkins in his outsider music tome Songs In The Key Of Z, and even before that book came out I'd already been familiar with her music from hearing it on WPKN, a non-commercial radio station in CT where I grew up, and ended up hosting a show at for ten years. So most people already aware of Jenkins are either classical/opera aficionados or people who collect Shaggs records and watch cult B-movies. And a lot of people who aren't aware of Jenkins' story who watch this movie probably can't get past the bad singing. I honestly thought this was a really good mainstream Hollywood adaptation of the story, even if it's probably not totally accurate (no biopics are), and it also works as a satire on the over-privileged elite. We have recordings of Jenkins' music here at the library, and Streep's performance is clearly faithful to those recordings.