The Audrey Hepburn Story (2000)

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Pretty Good

From my favorite movies..

The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

What I can never understand is why an American is chosen to play the part of someone who had a pristine British accent and vice versa. (I know Hepburn was born in Belgium). This movie reminds me somewhat of the now legendary role Dick Van Dyke played (Bert) in Mary Poppins. His cockney accent was to say the least 'atrocious'.Although I must say that the British accent of Jennifer Love Hewitt was better than Van Dykes's it still left a lot to be desired.SPOILER BEGINS This movie charts 'part' of the life of Audrey Hepburn who was in my opinion one of the most beautiful women in the world. That is not to say that Love Hewitt is not stunningly attractive.The movie takes us from her very young age, through WW2 when she was taken to live in Holland where her parents thought she would be safe but of course it turned out that she was raised in German occupied Holland, up to the period when she was one of the most sought after stars in the movie world.I must say that I learned a lot about Audrey Hedpburn watching this movie. For example she actually helped the Dutch underground when she was in Holland and she witnessed the atrocities the Hitler Army was capable of.However, the movie did not go far enough and in my opinion the latter part of her life should have been covered also. She worked tirelessly for UNICEF for several years, right up to her relatively untimely death in 1993 of Appendiceal cancer. This was a two part mini-series and I feel that they could have made a three part series in order to cover her later life.There was only a brief written reference to this in the end credits.SPOILER ENDS I do like Jennifer Love Hewitt as an actress having first seen her in the bittiest of bit parts in Sister Act 2 and then in the popular TV series Ghost Whisperer.It is simply that I feel that she was very wrongly cast in the role of Audrey Hepburn because her English accent was simply not up to it.Had the part of Hepburn be played by someone else (a Brit) and had the whole story been told I feel that the movie would have been wonderful. Even if Jennifer had not tried to emulate an English accent and used her American accent I feel this would have been better.Love Hewitt was Producer & Co Executive Producer of Ghost Whisperer and she was also one of the Co Executive Producers of The Audrey Hepburn Story so I am wondering if that was the reason she played the title role.For the most part the remainder of the cast played their roles extremely well, especially Francis Fisher who played Audrey's mother Ella van Heemstra. She was nothing like the hateful woman Ruth Dewitt Bukater in Titanic.I also liked the way Eric McCormack played Mel Ferrer. He too was nothing like the despicable Ray Summers in Dead Like Me.All in all I feel that the Audrey Hepburn Story could have been a great deal better but nevertheless I will say it is still quite watchable.This mini-series was nominated for one award, the Golden Reel Award, for Best Sound Editing, which it did not win.

I believe this role should have been played from Audrey Tautou she looks like Audrey Hepburn , she is so sweet also . Same name,similar look and Audrey Tautou is an excellent actor. Anyway a biography film cannot replace the person Audrey Hepburn, a blank will always exist because these were the gold years of cinema and as the years were passed , cinema's quality gets poorer and poorer. Of course there are many great actors and Jeniffer is one of them perhaps she wasn't the best choice for this role but she is also giving us great films.We shouldn't be tough with the actors sometimes they are humans sometimes they are doing some bad choices in their career. Although anyone would like to give by acting life to a legend , it takes courage to do it and the result is unexpected always .

I heard of how horrible this made for TV movie was - but of course I was curious. I borrowed it from my local library... and I did not expect it to be THIS bad! I'm a die hard Audrey fan, and even I became bored during most of this film. Audrey Hepburn's life boring? Not at all - but they managed to make it seem so. I was becoming agitated with the way this was edited as well. The story kept switching from during the production of Breakfast At Tiffany's to her early life.Jennifer Love Hewitt was miscast, as her performance as Audrey was insufficient. Audrey's persona is impossible to portray in the first place - but JLH? They could have chosen someone more appropriate for the role. I felt embarrassed for her, seeing her attempting an English accent and failing to capture even an ounce Audrey's spirit or charm. Her rendition of Moon River is okay, but calls for a dub - due to the style of her singing - it lost all fragility. As the movie progressed, I became more annoyed with her and irritable - exactly the opposite of how Audrey makes me feel. And I am clueless on why they chose Eric McCormack to be Mel Ferrer. Frances Fisher actually does resemble Ella Hepburn (Audrey's mother) a bit, and Jennifer Love Hewitt's profile looks similar to Audrey's, but that's all.They make too big of a deal with her relationship with Truman Capote. Yes, it is true that he had Marilyn Monroe in mind for the role of Holly Golightly, but he sent Audrey a letter upon hearing about her being cast - and expressed how pleased he was.Avoid this if you're wanting to know more about Audrey. You're better off reading her biographies (Barry Paris's is a fan favorite) and watching her films. This 'tribute' is appalling, for it makes Audrey seem like a tease and a ditz. It especially angered me how they focused so intently on how Audrey wanted to have children, manipulating it a bit to make it seem like she was heartless about the feelings of the others. The ending is also very unsatisfactory.

No offense or anything but I'm probably such a big star of the legendary AUdrey Hepburn, I think Jennifer kinda spoiled it. I thought from sideways Jennifer looked a bit like Audrey, but personally, she doesn't have that elegance or grace or beauty Audrey Does. Enough talk to bad acting. The whole movie was OK. The although I think it missed too much, I understood the whole story line. Basically if you watch it, I suggest you do because we all have different view of things and you may like it or maybe not. I would have liked it more if Emma played AUdrey the whole way through because she looked a bit more elegant. I think they rushed at choosing actresses and actors but the effort was quite good. I thought if I made it I would get Sean Hepburn Ferrer to speak in it at the beginning. But over all it was OK.