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THE SCANDALOUS CLASSIC THAT DEFINED AN ERA.
A young actress gathers three former school friends to find out which one is her natural mother, who gave her up for adoption as a newborn.
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Bess Armstrong Brooke Adams Arielle Dombasle Phoebe Cates Anthony Higgins Angela Lansbury Herbert Lom Honor Blackman Simon Chandler Anthony Quayle Nickolas Grace Leigh Lawson Trevor Eve Jonathan Hyde François Guétary June Brown Simon de La Brosse Sylvie Herbert Jacques Maury Philip Stone Ginette Garcin Terence Rigby Pierre Olaf Annette Badland Celia Gregory Rachel Salik Dominique Blanc Stéphane Bonnet Kate Harper Show All…
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The above line spoken by Phoebe Cates was named the greatest in television history according to TV Guide in 1993. Methinks that tells you everything you need to know about this delicious serving of trash.
ABC's two-part mini-series is an adaptation of Shirley Conran's bestselling novel of the same name, a sprawling soap opera of proto-Mamma Mia! proportions that spans from 1960 to 1984. Over the course of four hours, director William Hale's epic production follows former porn queen turned internationally renowned mainstream actress Lili (Cates) as she tries to suss out which one of lifelong friends Jennifer "Pagan" Trelawney (Brooke Adams), Judy Hale (Bess Armstrong) and Maxine Pascal (Arielle Dombasle)…
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Compulsively watchable telenovela as miniseries circa 1980s. A time when TV movies could be appointment television. This was one of them. It aired over two nights.
Part one ends with a deliciously quotable line. Lili, played in full camp mode by Phoebe Cates, is an abandoned daughter looking for her unknown mother. A delightfully hammy Angela Lansbury tells her it’s one of three women, who were all best friends at boarding school. Lili hunts them down and arranges a forced reunion. Once she has all three women in one place she asks,
Incidentally, which one of you bitches is my mother?
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"Incidentally, which one of you bitches is my mother?"
Decadence, melodrama and sleaze became high art in the 1980s.
Daytime soaps spawned nighttime soaps, which then morphed into Miniseries Events- sprawling big-budget tales of sex, glamour, jealousy, and betrayal shot in opulent locales. Sharing lineage with the "women's pictures" of mid-century America and titillating pre-Code pictures like "Three on A Match" (a gem featuring Bette Davis and Joan Blondell), and often adapted from poolside novels by the likes of Judith Krantz and Jackie Collins, these prime time epics set maternity secrets, backstabbing, infidelity, rape, lies and trauma against backdrops of high fashion and international finance.
What a time to be an adolescent sitting in the warm glow of a Magnavox.…
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Part 2 confirms Lace has the best cinematography in the history of film, the best costume design, set design, and fake accent design.
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tawdry, soapy American telenovela of shadiness and fashion abound. Phoebe Cates fake accent mvp.
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All these decent actors supporting a very ,very untalented star
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which one of you 3 bitches is my mother?
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Semi legendary camp trash that features the worst accent work you will ever hear. I was more than an hour in before I realised Brooke Adams was supposed to be British. Zany/attention starved internet people will have you believe this is Made For TV Showgirls - it’s actually closer to something like Bolero, and not just because of the copious brownface. Whew. Impossible to describe how awful Cates is, every line read is confounding. Still, I'm a mark for this form of Danielle Steele-meets-Monahem Golan junk that could only be found in TV miniseries between the years of 1981 and 1988. Plus current world events have me so deeply depressed that 4 hours in this opulent fantasy land feels like time well spent. Cannot believe there’s a sequel, cannot wait to watch the sequel.
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One of the most insane things I’ve ever seen, and yet…
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Before we had the Internet, HBO, Netflix or fourth-wave feminism, we had the 1980s Bonkbuster: a TV mini-series, often based on a bestselling trashy novel about women with massive poodle perms shagging and scheming their way to fabulous wealth and success. Though fairly appalling by today’s standards, they spoke to a very 1980s capitalist fantasy of private jets, guilt-free fur coats, rivers of diamonds, disposable millionaire boyfriends and limousines big enough to shag in. The greatest Bonkbuster of them all was Lace, based on Shirley Conran’s bestseller about a porn star hell-bent on discovering which of three women is her mother and destroying them all for abandoning her. It’s hard to believe now that Lace was one of the highest-rated TV series…
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There is no greater example of "So bad, it's good" than Phoebe Cates' accent in LACE.
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Lace is an entertaining guilty pleasure, especially for fans of melodramatic soap operas. It leans heavily into over-the-top drama, with an engaging, if sometimes absurd, storyline. The performances range from solid to overly theatrical, but Phoebe Cates shines as the vengeful Lili. While not a masterpiece, it’s a fun watch for those who enjoy campy, dramatic storytelling
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