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Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
Directed by
Chiemi Karasawa
2015
80m
Not Rated
Documentary
7.5
99%
79%
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The uncompromising Tony and Emmy Award-winner is showcased both on and off stage via rare archival footage and intimate cinema vérité.
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Cast of Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
Elaine Stritch
Herself
Tina Fey
Herself
Cherry Jones
Herself
Nathan Lane
Himself
James Gandolfini
Himself
Alec Baldwin
Himself
John Turturro
Himself
Hal Prince
Himself
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me Reviews
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
Elaine Stritch's strength, along with the film's, comes from her honesty. She is herself, even when - maybe especially when - she knows she's being watched.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
An enjoyably fawning documentary.
Detroit News
Tom Long
"Elaine Stritch" is filled with bluster and memories, blunt outbursts and funny moments. But more importantly, it is filled with honesty.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Really, the experience of "Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me" is the experience of being in Stritch's company for 80 minutes, and that's fine. Still I doubt anyone will walk out of this film wishing it were 10 minutes longer.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Joe Williams
By the end, even those who had never heard of Stritch can share her rage against the dying of the light.
Newsday
John Anderson
Chiemi Karasawa deserves all the credit in the world for the intimate and hilarious portrait that is Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me, a sparkling cocktail of music and memoir. On the other hand, she didn't exactly have to drag her subject out of her shell.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
[A] feisty portrait of the musical-theater legend.
Chicago Sun-Times
Bill Zwecker
This is a must-see for anyone who loves theater, acting and especially individuals like Elaine Stritch unafraid to bare their souls -- so all of us can gain more insight into the complicated essence of the human condition.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Stritch, in her trademark billowy white blouses and skinny black tights, or in bed, without makeup and without, sometimes, a lucid notion, reveals herself to be full of opposing emotions and desires.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
You watch "Shoot Me" wishing this woman could keep sashaying through her showbiz life forever ...
The Playlist
Katie Walsh
Inspirational, entertaining, and absolutely awards-caliber...Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me offers up an indelible and rare experience in cinematic form-it's simply an absolute treat to be able to spend this much intimate time with such a legendary lady.
Arizona Republic
Randy Cordova
She is more than a little abrasive in the finished documentary, yet she is also compulsively watchable. No wonder she's a star.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
I suppose it helps to have seen Stritch onstage to fully appreciate the bracing new documentary "Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me," released by Sundance Selects. I wish I'd seen more.
Chicago Reader
Ben Sachs
This profile of stage and screen veteran Elaine Stritch, shot during her 87th year, isn't a documentary so much as an improvised star vehicle; she plays to the camera through the entire movie and puts on a hell of a show.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
The movie's a portrait of tough yet vulnerable woman fighting age with everything she's got, giving in, getting scared, fighting some more.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Formidable, indomitable, irascible: Pick your adjective, and it pretty much describes the force of nature who holds the stage in "Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me."
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
"I Feel Pretty," from "West Side Story," was written for an ingenue, not a grande dame in her ninth decade, but she sings it with delicious irony, self-irony and irrepressible delight.
New York Magazine/Vulture
David Edelstein
One of those showbiz docs that's not exactly pleasurable but offers a penetrating glimpse - sometimes too penetrating - into what it means to eat, drink, and be contrary in the public sphere.
TheWrap
Alonso Duralde
Follows the groundwork laid out by the recent Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work, alternating between look-where-she's-been historical footage and look-at-her-go glimpses of her current busy schedule.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Cheers to a movie as gloriously entertaining and bluntly honest as the lady herself. Everybody rise.
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