Blonde (2001)

Director:	Joyce Chopra
Actors:	Kirstie Alley, Ann-Margret, Wallace Shawn, Richard Roxburgh, Griffin Dunne, Jensen Ackles, Patrick Dempsey, Eric Bogosian, Poppy Montgomery, Skye McCole Bartusiak, Titus Welliver, Patricia Richardson, Niklaus Lange

Dramatic and unsettlingly suggestive, this provocative mini series, based on the best selling novel by Joyce Carol Oates, delivers a seductive portrait of the captivating star who became America's most enduring sex symbol. The stunning saga of Marilyn Monroe's life begins with her traumatic upbringing as Norma Jeane, the damage inflicted by a a psychotic mother, the basence of a father, the devastation of four years in an orphanage and betrayal in a foster home. Blonde draws a sharp eyed picture of the movie business during the 1940s and 1950s and conveys a nation's fascination with a legendary cultural icon.