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The Eyes of Tammy Faye, 2000

Starring: Tammy Faye Bakker

Directed by: Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato

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Language: English

Country: UK, USA

Runtime: 79 min

MPAA Rating: PG_13

Rating:7.2

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The mood of The Eyes of Tammy Faye is touching. The plot centers around a TV show, a rise and fall, and media. It is a documentary and drama movie. In approach, The Eyes of Tammy Faye is serious and realistic. It happens in the 1980s. It is drawn from a biography and originally a true story.

Summary of The Eyes of Tammy Faye

In this quirky documentary, codirectors Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato catch up with the infamous Tammy Faye Messner (formerly Tammy Faye Bakker) 12 years after the Jim Bakker embezzlement scandal and the collapse of the PTL (Praise the Lord) network. The Bakkers launched PTL back in 1974 and within a short time found themselves at the head of a vast televangelist empire raking in millions of dollars in member contributions. When Jim's affair with Jessica Hahn came to light, the couple was ousted from the network by Jerry Falwell. Jim ended up going to prison for fraud, and Tammy found herself alone, grappling with cancer, the aftereffects of her addiction to prescription drugs, and estrangement from her family. Abruptly removed from the public eye and virtually forgotten, Tammy Faye has since attempted several as yet unfruitful media comebacks, which are documented here. Of course, there's also the more frivolous side to Tammy's story, such as some hilarious early TV appearances involving singing hand puppets and revealing background information on her obsession with mascara. The film (narrated by drag icon RuPaul Charles) is a campy yet ultimately loving portrait of Tammy Faye, who comes across as surprisingly sympathetic, a cheerful and irrepressible survivor of many calamities.

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Language:	English
Country:	UK, USA
Release date:	25 January 2000
Runtime:	79 min

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Film.com

It's a testimony to Tammy Faye's own integrity and enormous charisma that the film holds our attention as tightly as it does, and doesn't become an insufferable exercise in weak filmmaking. Full Review

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by: Ernest Hardy

San Francisco Chronicle

Demonstrates, if nothing else, that there's a genuine person -- chastened by mistakes and more compassionate, perhaps, for all she's suffered -- beneath the war paint and the stardust. Full Review

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by: Edward Guthmann

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Tammy Faye's almost angelic faith in herself and others comes through in this quirky film. Her vulnerability is surprisingly charming and real despite the cover-up. Read and rate it

05.May.2009
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by: Meg
Meg rated this movie0/10

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