World-shaking historical events become the grist for a mill of women's magazine dilemmas in this melodramatic TV mini-series. In tracing the legend of Camelot, Kennedy Era version, this film begins in the 1950s, with politically ambitious John Fitzgerald Kennedy's (Daniel Hugh Kelly) courtship of sophisticated socialite Jacqueline "Jackie" Bouvier (Jill Hennessy). Despite her priviledged background, Jackie initially feels like a fish out of water in this burgeoning Kennedy Dynasty. Forever nudging his sons toward the presidency, patriarch Joe Kennedy (Harve Presnell) oversees every aspect of his children's lives. That includes their marriages, and Jackie isn't as who...
Released:
2001
Rated:
NR
Length:
172 mins