A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

A somewhat weird approach to a bio; I occasionally had the feeling they were mocking Monroe. The world's favourite blond mental case is fortunately portrayed here without much idolatry; her many flaws are shown in unflattering ways, and this is refreshing. The blond idiot is portrayed as a selfish, confused, self-centered, ridiculously ambitious Hollywood slut with the brain of a peanut. The film's greatest flaw is the casting of Sorvino as the post-surgery Monroe. This is absurd; Ashley Judd is far better-looking than Sorvino, so to cast Sorvino as the new-and-improved Monroe is simply ludicrous. Judd has plastic surgery and - voilà - she is suddenly Sorvino! Sorvino?!?... Judd steals the movie, so it's a shame she only dominates the first half-hour or so. The casting for Joe DiMaggio's part is also rather poor.

A horrible portrayal of the legendary Marilyn Monroe.If Marilyn Monroe was as dumb as this movie made her out to be, we wouldn't be celebrating her legacy as we are today. Marilyn Monroe was a brilliant woman who knew how to work the cameras. She had a heart and this movie made her cold and without a soul.Her death scene portrayed in this movie is inaccurate and ridiculous. She not die in an ambulance or in the bathroom and she did not drink down her pills. She took pills that have to be put through the rectum, not the mouth, and she was found by her maid face down on her bed naked in her bedroom with the telephone beside her.

I believe that this has to be one of the worst movies, based on someone's true life, I have ever seen. I'm aware that many people do love the film, but it just has too much fiction in a story that is meant to tell the truth of the beloved Marilyn Monroe. There are many moments that are factual, but the film is based on the book "Norma Jean: My Secret Life With Marilyn Monroe" by Ted (Eddie) Jordan.After reading the book I finally saw this film, and there are obvious comparisons. However, if you happen to find the book (which I believe is out of print now) notice the nude pictures of Marilyn/Norma Jeane. The pictures are not of Marilyn but of a look-a-like from the late 50's / early 60's. A couple of the pictures were also in playboy. Jordan's account of being with Marilyn at all times is dirty and at times disturbing. He frequently talks of how she struggles with herself(like in the movie) and she apparently has a horrible problem keeping herselffrom sleeping with him and other men/women and even his future wife, who was a popular strip-tease artist in California. This is basically where the "lesbian" story evolved from.Based on Jordan's book, comments, fake pictures and all the other hub-bub he has put into this God Awful book, none of this should be considered "Marilyn's Life". Nor should this film.However, all in all the film is generally entertaining. It's just too bad that it is full of lies, and it is contributing to Marilyn's so-called "sleeps with everyone/anyone" reputation.

I'm sorry but Mira Sorvino was so bad in this movie it wasn't even funny. Her attempt to portray Marilyn as a simpering, simple minded bimbo was both misguided and upsetting. As the other reviewer commented, Marilyn Monroe's on screen persona was not the person she was in real life. It's almost as if Mira's interpretation was based on an impression she once saw somebody do of Marilyn. It wasn't even a good stereotypical impression of her. I have to say that Ashley Judd's Norma Jean was miles more interesting to watch than Mira's offering.This movie was poorly conceived, badly written and terribly acted. No-one could possibly hope to even come close to recreating what Marilyn brought to the screen or the effect she had when she walked into a room. How the makers of this movie thought that they could do it with such poor materials to work with is beyond me.