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A weak biopic, whose quality is on par with typical TV Lifetime content. However, Brittany Murphy's story is worth telling, and if this attempt inspires another team, it will only be a good thing. There was once an ambitious girl, and even though she was destined to play ugly ducklings in the nineties, she gradually climbed up alongside colleagues Alicia Silverstone, Kirsten Dunst, Amy Adams, Denise Richards, Angelina Jolie, and Winona Ryder until she ended up in Ashton Kutcher's arms. From a duckling emerged an anorexic swan fulfilling all the stereotypical assumptions of beauty in the new millennium. In private, she was focused on her mother and husband, Simon Monjack. And here it comes: Murphy dies in December 2009, her husband, seven years older, just half a year after her. A true-crime story in the making.

It's much better than I Wanna Dance with Somebody. It's still not entirely great, but it's decent. Even the relationship with Robyn Crawford is not really suppressed here, so the only reason someone might want another Whitney biography is to bring that material to the movie theater.

If I had gone to the movie theater to see this biography, I would have been disappointed. I definitely agree with the opinion that even an average documentary would easily surpass this feature film. A weak, uninteresting work that only exists to illustrate the book of Whitney Houston's first partner Robyn Crawford A Song for You: My Life with Whitney Houston (2019).