Tabloid girl Joyce McKinney back in the scandalous '70s...
“TABLOID” My rating: B (Opening Aug. 19 at the Tivoli and Glenwood at Red Bridge)
87 minutes | No MPAA rating
“Tabloid” finds heavy duty documentarist Errol Morris happily slumming. And boy, is he having fun.
The maker of such noteworthy non-fiction films as “Gates of Heaven” (pet cemeteries), “Mr. Death” (a Holocaust denier), “The Thin Blue Line” (prosecutorial malfeasance in Texas) and the Oscar-winning “The Fog of War” (Robert McNamara), Morris tends to gravitate toward weighty subject matter.
But with “Tabloid” he delves into a torn-from-the-headlines scandal to reveal the face of a true American eccentric.
Morris’ subject is Joyce McKinney, a former beauty queen from North Carolina who in 1977 set off a media feeding frenzy when she and several confederates traveled to England and kidnapped her former boyfriend, a young Morman doing missionary work.
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