The Eyes Of Tammy Faye: A Kooky, Yet Conventional Biopic That's Held Up By Its Lead Performance
Michael Showalter’s latest, The Eyes Of Tammy Faye, is a lightly kooky, holy rollercoaster of a biopic that’s bolstered by the commitment of its leads. Based of the 2000 documentary of the same name, the film dramatizes the well-documented life of beloved televangelists Jim & Tammy Faye Bakker, chronicling their extraordinary rise and their scandalous fall. While it proves to be fairly entertaining (mostly due to its performances), Showalter and screenwriter Abe Sylvia don’t go as far or deep as we’d hoped, culminating in a fairly conventional biopic whose story is better examined in documentary format.
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