NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!

Borgarkeri A bit overrated, but still an amazing film

Roy Hart If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

jm10701 There are some extremely stupid people in the world, and it looks like every one of them has reviewed this movie.Joyce McKinney is not a nut, she is not crazy, and she did absolutely nothing wrong in trying to liberate the man she loved from a dehumanizing cult that had (and still has) him in its clutches. Her mistake was in thinking he was worth saving, but love often isn't rational.She is a very colorful person, but that's good, not bad. The world needs more colorful people and a LOT fewer mindless clones (they're the ones who think she's crazy).The life she led in LA before the incident in England had absolutely nothing to do with that incident, and she had done nothing illegal in LA either. But the slimy British gutter press smelled blood, and they went tearing into her for all the blood they could spill.They're disgusting. That they are STILL gloating over their assassination of her character 35 years later - one of the slimiest even having the gall to call HER a vampire, while smiling the creepiest vampire smile I ever saw - is testament to their total depravity.I greatly admire McKinney for having survived what they did to her with most of her charm and sense of humor intact. She's a survivor, and she hasn't faded away among the millions of Stepford Wives like a good little girl. She's still her colorful, charming, open, vulnerable and feisty self after all she's been through, and I greatly admire her for it. SHE gets seven stars.I would give Errol Morris one star for showing the British press scum as the gutless, amoral, grinning creeps they are - but he gladly plants himself with them in the "Joyce is barking mad" camp (it sells tickets and wins awards), so he gets nothing from me but the contempt he and all those "press" sharks deserve.

MartinHafer "Tabloid" is a film about Joyce McKinney--an ex-beauty queen who drew international attention when she was arrested in the UK for kidnapping her ex-boyfriend and supposedly forcing him to have sex with her. While some of the details are fuzzy and open to various interpretations, the bottom line is that McKinney escaped from custody and the case was eventually dropped. Part of the film chronicles this but the bulk of it simply consists of McKinney talking about the case and herself (and MOSTLY herself) in the decades following this weird incident. Much of the time, McKinney talks about how tabloids and the Mormons have destroyed her life. All I could CLEARLY see was that this lady seemed to love having the spotlight on her once again.In the past, I have enjoyed Errol Morris' documentaries and really respected them. However, with "Tabloid", it sure seems like Morris has taken a huge step backward when it comes to his Oscar-winning reputation. Not only has he made a film that had a lot of flaws, but it gave a HUGE platform for a very dysfunctional woman*--a woman who ate up all the attention that was heaped on her for all the wrong reasons. By this same standard, you could also make documentaries with the help of various murderers, pedophiles and the like--many would LOVE the attention but you also wonder about the morality of letting these leaches have this platform. What about all the people they'd hurt? Isn't it rather insensitive to their victims as well as doing society a disservice to make such films?! And, if this lady is NOT evil and wasn't involved in an actual kidnapping, then why make a film where it seems designed to get people to laugh at her and her pathetic life?! Either angle seems very wrong--especially since McKinney seemed to have severe personality disorders.*She seems to have a Borderline Personality with Narcissistic and Dependent features--based on my own experiencing working as a psychotherapist--and as such, really was rife to be exploited by Morris because of her pathological need for attention. However, without conducting an exhaustive interview, this is only a best guess. Regardless, she is NOT a healthy person and someone who you would want to encourage or exploit.

paul2001sw-1 Some people are serial fantastists, or serial self-publicists: it can be hard to tell the difference. Errol Morris' entertaining film 'Tabloid: Sex in Change' will seem familiar to anyone whose seen the (altogether more serious) film 'True Lies': in both cases, someone collaborates with a contemporary film-maker to tell "their story", even though the film-maker is able to simultaneously compile a large body of evidence to suggest that this story is utter tosh. The protagonists of both films could be considered con-artists, but if so, neither of them are exactly very good: in taking part in these films, they manage not to control the narrative, but to destroy themselves (although, if self-publicity is the aim, they do succeed, albeit in a peculiar fashion). Joyce McKinney's story (both the real one, and the one that she tells) is straightforwardly bizarre; while the linked tale of the behaviour of tabloid newspapers is predictably depressing, although one can't help but wonder whether or not Morris would have done better to let sleeping dogs lie (something McKinney didn't do when she had her dead pet cloned) rather than give the whole affair another publicising blast of the oxygen. It's hard to draw many conclusions from such a weird tale about the state of our society, or even about the interior workings of McKinney's mind; yet it's also impossible not to be entertained, albeit in a prurient way, by the extraordinary details of her tale.

billcr12 Errol Morris hits a home run with "Tabloid," letting the main subject, Joyce McKinney, pontificate for long stretches at a time; and Ms. McKinney never disappoints. This is a sad and compelling news story from 1977, well known in Britain as "The Manacled Mormon" case. An American Mormon missionary claimed to be abducted and raped by Ms. McKinney and what follows is a tragic but often funny documentary that is truly stranger than fiction. I can't find better adjectives(used by someone interviewed) than barking mad to describe this delusional, obsessed, and sorry figure.The missing element is Kirk Anderson, the alleged victim and abductee, as he refused to be interviewed. Director Morris has a field day with Mormon beliefs, from magic underwear to planets ruled by deceased true believers. The Salt Lake City elders will not be pleased with this film. I highly recommend it to everyone else.