Synopsis: Anna Nicole Smith’s life was a remarkable journey of highs and lows, from being a single teenage mother to becoming the wife of an oil billionaire. Yet while Anna encountered great success, she endured many terrible tragedies. Anna Nicole Smith chronicles the notorious life & shocking death of this international sex symbol.
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Anna Nicole 5.5

This sanitized, “golly gee” recreation of Anna Nicole Smith’s adult life is about as glossed up as it can get. It only provides a small sense of the person behind the centerfold and it spends far too much time showing us just how nice she supposedly was (despite her real-life reputation) and how loved she was by those around her. Warms your heart.

The acting is middling at best, the direction is strictly competent and the production reeks of TV-movie-of-the-week hell. By the end, you don’t feel like you’ve been truly entertained, haven’t really peered into her tortured soul, and you don’t even get a proper sense of her history, seeing as they skip many years at a time and don’t explain key elements of her life (for instance, why she decided to change her name after her career started).

It’s not a bad film, per se (or, at least ,there’s plenty worse!), but it’s hardly something I’d recommend. If you must, get a documentary instead – if you actually want to know about this person. As for me, I’ve had my fill and don’t plan on exploring any further – this biopic spawned no small amount of disdain in me.