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A former beauty queen obsessed with a Mormon missionary became ferocious tabloid fodder in England in the mid-1970s--a perfect storm of sex, religion, and sheer craziness. Director Errol Morris--creator of such nonfiction films (they defy any expectations the label documentary might hold) as The Thin Blue Line, Fast, Cheap & Out of Control, and The Fog of War--crafts a kind of poetry from his portraits of people whose lives have bent in one obsessive direction. Former Miss Wyoming Joyce McKinney fell in love with aspiring missionary Kirk Anderson, but the Mormon Church decided she wasn't fit material and whisked Anders
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A former beauty queen obsessed with a Mormon missionary became ferocious tabloid fodder in England in the mid-1970s--a perfect storm of sex, religion, and sheer craziness. Director Errol Morris--creator of such nonfiction films (they defy any expectations the label documentary might hold) as The Thin Blue Line, Fast, Cheap & Out of Control, and The Fog of War--crafts a kind of poetry from his portraits of people whose lives have bent in one obsessive direction. Former Miss Wyoming Joyce McKinney fell in love with aspiring missionary Kirk Anderson, but the Mormon Church decided she wasn't fit material and whisked Anderson away to London. McKinney and an accomplice followed and then either kidnapped or liberated Anderson, depending on who you believe--and therein lies the crux, as competing stories are told by McKinney, Anderson, and rival tabloids, one of which uncovers some startlingly salacious background material. To top it off, as if this whirlwind media storm wasn't enough, McKinney reemerged in the spotlight decades later for completely unrelated yet strangely fitting reasons. Morris combines lively interviews with archival footage to create wonderfully engaging movies that prove, again and again, that the truth can be both elusive and deeply, deeply weird. --Bret Fetzer
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Manufacturer: MPI HOME VIDEO
Release date: 1 November 2011
EAN: 0030306979397 UPC: 030306979397
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