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| Genres: | Document |
| Starring: | Troy Williams, Kent Gavin, Dr. Hong, Joyce McKinney, Joyce Bernann McKinney, Jackson Shaw, Peter Tory |
| Director(s): | Errol Morris |
| Country: | USA |
| Year: | 2010 |
| IMDB Rating: | 7.4 |
A documentary on a former Miss Wyoming who is charged with abducting and imprisoning a young Mormon Missionary.
Visitor Reviews: (20)Chris Bumbray 18 May 2012
Errol Morris is one of the true masters of the documentary form.
David Denby 18 May 2012
Morris's subject is sexual fantasy and a particular kind of American stupidity-the ability to substitute self-justification for self-knowledge. His tone is merry.
Leonard Maltin 17 May 2012
Although he has tackled many serious subjects (and finally won an Oscar for The Fog of War, his gut-wrenching portrait of former Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara), filmmaker Errol Morris has always had a fondness for life's oddballs...
Michael Phillips 16 May 2012
Morris is such a savvy, irony-tinged master of the essayist documentary form, McKinney's own perspective becomes a tabla rasa for all sorts of sexual, voyeuristic and media desires.
Tom Clift 13 May 2012
Tabloid is such a mirthful, fascinating and fantastically entertaining documentary that you can't help but get caught up in all the sordid fun
David Stratton 12 May 2012
A lot of fun; Morris himself is clearly unconvinced about Joyce -- and no wonder -- but she's a funny woman and hers is a ripping yarn if ever there was one.
Doris Toumarkine 04 May 2012
Documentary maverick Errol Morris stays quirky and goes trashy...Style here surpasses content, but there's entertainment aplenty to bring audiences to the table.
Travis Johnson 04 May 2012
Expertly guided by Errol Morris, and featuring a wholly compelling subject, this is a fascinating exploration of truth and memory.
Dave White 24 April 2012
In addition to his admirable qualities, Morris also seems to find his subject to be hilarious. And she is.
Roger Ebert 24 April 2012
As is often the case with Morris, we can never be sure what he thinks, only that he wants to baffle us with the impenetrable strangeness of reality.
scarletheels 22 April 2012
Some stories are so preposterous and delightfully astonishing that theyhave to be exposed to the masses. Such is the true tale of JoyceMcKinney, the former beauty queen who hired a pilot to fly her and anaccomplice, Keith May, to England to rescue her boyfriend, KirkAnderson, from the clutches of the Mormon church. After bringing him toa rented cottage in Devon, where the refrigerator was stocked full ofhis favorite foods, she bound and seduced him. What ensued was threedays of sex, food, and fun, to be forever known as "The Case of theManacled Mormon". It sounds like every man's fantasy - a beautiful pageant princesswaiting on you hand and foot, satisfying your every whim and fancy.However, Kirk, after reading about his own abduction in the newspaper,fled from his captors and alleged to the police a much differentaccount of what happened. The all-American, charismatic blonde wasarrested for kidnapping and raping the Mormon missionary and thrown inthe slammer to await trial. The British tabloids had a field day withthe bizarre incident.The Daily Express printed Joyce's side of the story while their rival,The Daily Mirror, delved deep into Joyce's past and uncovered luriddetails of her moonlighting as an S&M model and dominatrix for hire,painting her as a manipulative Jezebel that cast a spell over all ofthe men she met. The accusation did ring true. She often referred toKeith May as her slave and she had another admirer willing to doanything she asked. Even Peter Tory, a reporter for The Daily Express,seems to have fallen for Joyce's delusion that she was simply a girl soprofoundly in love with her boyfriend, she risked life and limb inorder to save and deprogram him from a cult of polygamists.Unfortunately, Kirk Anderson declined to participate in Morris'sdocumentary and Keith May passed away in 2004, but there is enoughmaterial to fill his absence, like Joyce's decision to travel to Seoul,South Korea to have her beloved rescue dog, Booger, cloned.The interviews with Joyce, Jackson Shaw (the pilot), Troy Williams (aformer Mormon missionary), Peter Tory, Kent Gavin (photographer for TheDaily Mirror), and Dr. Hong flow smoothly, with barely any interruptionby Mr. Morris. The montage of animated newspaper clippings was a visualtreat and the background music fit brilliantly, which normally goesunnoticed in a documentary. The star of the show is Joyce with heranimated voice and emphasized gestures. She's a breed of crazy that issometimes unsettling, sometimes funny, and always entertaining.
Joe Morgenstern 21 April 2012
Errol Morris's documentary was made, and scheduled for release, long before the News of the World story broke. The smart part is that the film dissects those excesses deftly with a quasitabloid style of its own.
Eric Kohn 21 April 2012
The enjoyably wacky scenario of Errol Morris's "Tabloid" is cookie-cutter material for the documentarian, but Morris wields his cookie cutter like a pro.
Tim Robey 20 April 2012
Morris's doc is less about What Really Happened than exploring the lifespan of one of those stories that kept on giving.
Sean Gandert 19 April 2012
Morris' most flat-out enjoyable picture
Derek Malcolm 19 April 2012
Morris suggests that you can sometimes find profundity in triviality - and though Joyce condemns herself out of her own mouth, it is always possible to feel sorry for a woman whose obsession has so totally ruled her life.
Geoff Berkshire 09 April 2012
Tabloid stories may be a dime a dozen, but documentaries as amusing and entertaining as Tabloid aren't so easy to find.
Mark Jenkins 09 April 2012
Tabloid spins a heck of a yarn, while implicitly warning viewers not to be so entertained that they believe every gamy detail.
Frank Swietek 01 April 2012
Fascinating, whimsically humorous and poignant, all at once.
Peter Canavese 01 April 2012
Morris compellingly unfolds the story and clearly means for us to see our own untoward qualities writ large in Joyce and the circus surrounding her.