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ACTOR
Cybill ShepherdTim MathesonJoanna CassidyJude Ciccolella
DIRECTOR
Jason Ensler
SYNOPSICS
Martha, Inc.: The Story of Martha Stewart (2003) is a English movie. Jason Ensler has directed this movie. Cybill Shepherd,Tim Matheson,Joanna Cassidy,Jude Ciccolella are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2003. Martha, Inc.: The Story of Martha Stewart (2003) is considered one of the best Biography,Drama movie in India and around the world.
A grim look at homemaking business tycoon Martha Stewart's story, behind the facade of her motherly housewife appearance, including a crime she committed that brought her fame to a halt.
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You go, girl.
Martha Inc. is actually worth watching to see Cybill Shepherd's take on the character. She really delves into the role and begins to show a sympathetic and vulnerable side to her. Sure, she's pretty and definitely intelligent, perhaps a genius. She worked Wall Street and modeled her way through College. She got married and had a daughter but domestic bliss was never enough for Martha. She wanted more and more in time. She became a successful Connecticut caterer. Even though she won't admit it, she is born and bred in New Jersey to Polish born Parents who immigrated to America. She was brought up in a large ethnic family rather than the small waspy family in Connecticut. Maybe Martha was no great wife or mother but she is creative and brilliant enough to succeed in a man's world. She has done it with class and brilliance. This movie does portray the messy divorce and the affair that broke up this longtime union. Martha may not have best people personilaty but just compare her to Barbra Streisand who is far more difficult. Martha is a perfectionist but brilliant and creative enough to establish herself as a household name. This success always comes with such sacrifice like a marriage and an estranged relationship with her daughter. Most men have often done this but why does it bother people when it is a woman? You go girl, Martha.
Painfully bad hit piece. What's the thread count??
First of all, let me say right out that I don't love Martha Stewart. I'm not a MS apologist. Hell, I don't even watch her show, because even I, half-brained cynic that I am, can discern that MS is essentially a product of the Wall Street/Madison Avenue/Corporate America hype-world. She's an invented hype-machine that gets people all excited about the infinite wonders of perfecting the "home living experience", and then... (drum roll please)... Corporate America is right there to sell all those many many products just to make that dream of perfection come true. The Martha Stewart line of products at K-Mart is one of the more obvious manifestations of this reality. Be that as it may, I didn't like this heavy-handed "hit piece" of a film. It seems each and every scene was capped off with an emphatic little clincher to ensure the viewer was left with the thought: "Oh_My_Gawd!!! What a horrid stinker of a person that Martha Stewart really is!!! Ewwwww!!!" Anyway, I thought the movie was a non-stop stream of hitting below the belt. I thought Cybill Shepherd looked and talked NOT AT ALL like the (real) Martha Stewart I've seen on t.v. (what little I've seen of her, that is...). As such, I thought the movie was unintentionally funny. I couldn't stop laughing at how absurd Cybill Shepherd looked, trying to make MS look absurd. I would have appreciated more of the negative emphasis be put on the corporate hypsters that invent the Martha Stewarts in the first place. Also, I would have liked more negative bias towards mindless home-makers who get so damned obsessive about all those frilly, frivolous things in the first place. (I recently saw a PBS program entitled "Affluenza". That would make for an excellent follow-on viewing after seeing this film about Martha Stewart and the MS way of living.) Anyway, a couple of years ago at K-Mart I bought a mattress pad for my bed. The Martha Stewart line. Don't know what the thread count is, but it is the most comfortable darned thing I've ever slept on. Thanks, Martha Stewart!
Its a CAMP thing...
When I first heard about a year and a half ago that Cybill was going to play Martha I was excited for Cybill and Martha. I thought Cybill's career would get back on track and Martha might enjoy having such a glamour girl play her...however, as Cybill ages she becomes more and more campier--she hardly EVER lost her southern accent in her portrayal of Ms. Martha. Martha would never say "beauuutifullll" she would say "BEAU-TI-FUL". There are moments where Cybill actually does resemble Martha but then there are moments where she looks like she is about to have her gallbladder removed. Hey Cyb--there is such a thing as under eye concealer! Don't even get me started on TURKEY HILL (the name of Martha's home), it doesn't even resemble the real Turkey Hill. The score is a great supporting player in the film. Classic line--HEY S**T! Not bad--but Cyb should have worked with a dialect coach. Also, has ANYONE remembered the GOOD and POSITIVE things Martha has done?
Another side of a Good Thing
I have heard many stories about Martha's work ethics and can be bossy and demanding, but what celebrity isn't? I think to be where she is at she needs to be demanding and goal oriented, you have to sacrifice and step on some toes. I felt she also lost a lot with her family, i was kind of curious on her relationship with her daughter, which the movie did not explain in details, if there were at all close? The movie was i would think pretty accurate? The writers must of done some interviews to get the inside scoop. Cybill Shepherd was awesome in this film! She really was Martha. That was some very good acting! But no matter i am still an avid reader and watcher of Martha Stewart. She is the queen of entertaining.
Not as negative a portrayal as people think
This film has a reputation of being an endless slam job on Martha Stewart. This is partly true. But I don't think it's been that much of a secret Martha Stewart sometimes berates staff. So did Charlie Chaplin. So did Milton Berle. So did Gustav Mahler. So did Johnny Carson. The latter four are generally beloved to many people, because of comparisons between misery inflicted and joy provided. What I think measures a film's point of view is what it shows the person accomplished. Ms. Stewart's brilliance at pioneering a new kind of TV and making a billion dollars in the process is part of that. But also, at the end, when her reputation is supposedly crumbling (actually, it never seems to have), the fact that when she visits an agricultural fair and literally everybody there mobs her with their admiration says the rest. Compare the misery she's inflicted on a few to the happiness she's brought her viewers. This film's end says there's no comparison. And if you don't agree, you can make the same argument about Chaplin, Berle, Mahler, and Carson.