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A documentary on a former Miss Wyoming who is charged with abducting and imprisoning a young Mormon Missionary.A documentary on a former Miss Wyoming who is charged with abducting and imprisoning a young Mormon Missionary.A documentary on a former Miss Wyoming who is charged with abducting and imprisoning a young Mormon Missionary.
- Awards
- 4 wins & 9 nominations
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Did you know
- TriviaFilmmaker Errol Morris was sued by Joyce McKinney, the central figure of the documentary for allegedly tricking her into appearing in the film.
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A real tabloid story
Some people are serial fantastists, or serial self-publicists: it can be hard to tell the difference. Errol Morris' entertaining film 'Tabloid: Sex in Change' will seem familiar to anyone whose seen the (altogether more serious) film 'True Lies': in both cases, someone collaborates with a contemporary film-maker to tell "their story", even though the film-maker is able to simultaneously compile a large body of evidence to suggest that this story is utter tosh. The protagonists of both films could be considered con-artists, but if so, neither of them are exactly very good: in taking part in these films, they manage not to control the narrative, but to destroy themselves (although, if self-publicity is the aim, they do succeed, albeit in a peculiar fashion). Joyce McKinney's story (both the real one, and the one that she tells) is straightforwardly bizarre; while the linked tale of the behaviour of tabloid newspapers is predictably depressing, although one can't help but wonder whether or not Morris would have done better to let sleeping dogs lie (something McKinney didn't do when she had her dead pet cloned) rather than give the whole affair another publicising blast of the oxygen. It's hard to draw many conclusions from such a weird tale about the state of our society, or even about the interior workings of McKinney's mind; yet it's also impossible not to be entertained, albeit in a prurient way, by the extraordinary details of her tale.
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- Apr 22, 2012
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- Also known as
- Storyville: Tabloid: Sex in Chains
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $696,921
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $91,201
- Jul 17, 2011
- Gross worldwide
- $731,925
- Runtime1 hour 27 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.78 : 1
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