Contrary to what you may have heard, this monumentally ill-conceived vehicle for pop diva Mariah Carey's screen debut is not the worst lonely-at-the-top, inside-showbiz soap opera in film history. And therein lies the problem; instead of a camp trash wallow, à la VALLEY OF THE DOLLS or the Barbra Streisand version of A STAR IS BORN, it's a butt-numbing exercise in tedium, sporadically redeemed by moments of unintentional hilarity. The film's release in the wake of Carey's highly public personal travails can best be described as an act of willful cruelty: Somebody at 20th Century Fox must have had it in for the scantily clad chanteuse. Big-voiced kid Billie Frank...
Released:
2001
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
100 mins