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Bernard and Doris (2006)
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Hugh Costello (writer)
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The story of the twilight years of tobacco billionairness Doris Duke and her relationship with her gay butler, to whom she left her entire fortune. full summary | full synopsis
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Nominated for 3 Golden Globes.
Another 23 nominations
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(19 articles)
2009 Screen Actors Guild Award Winners
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excellent on its own terms
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Susan Sarandon | ... | Doris Duke |
 | Ralph Fiennes | ... | Bernard Lafferty |
 | Peter Asher | ... | First Butler |
 | Don Harvey | ... | Security Guard |
 | Chris Bauer | ... | Chef |
 | Monique Gabriela Curnen | ... | Paloma |
| Marilyn Torres | ... | Nancy |
 | Nick Rolfe | ... | Ben |
| James Rebhorn | ... | Waldo Taft |
 | Dominick Dunne | ... | Board Member |
| Thomas J. McGrath | ... | Board Member |
| Gene Parseghian | ... | Board Member |
| Henry S. Schleiff | ... | Board Member (as Henry Schleiff) |
| Calvin Trillin | ... | Board Member |
| Kunnath P. Namboodiri | ... | Swami |
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103 min
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Susan Sarandon owns the dog who plays Doris' pet. The dog's name is Penny, a Pomeranian Maltese.
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Revealing mistakes: "She said it was important. 'Perhaps I will get the feeling back ..." It's the same body of a newspaper article for two different articles. Around 23 minutes into movie. One article had headline of Doris Duke attending opening with Leonard Bernstein. The second headline was her buying a Boeing 737 for $25 million.
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References Some Like It Hot (1959)
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All I Need Is You
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All right: Susan Sarandon does not resemble the real Doris Duke and is a good 15 years younger and a lot healthier looking than Duke was in the mid-1980's through 1993, when the story takes place; and granted, Ralph Fiennes is far more charming and appealing than the actual Bernard Lafferty. But this movie works because of those two central characters on which the scenario focuses to the exclusion of almost all else. The screenwriter deftly conveys the jet-set lifestyle and grandly tumultuous history of Doris Duke without actually moving us from location to location and decade to decade and we are able to concentrate on what is really a peculiarly moving love story. Duke's relationships with various hangers-on and an adopted daughter are left out entirely. If you are looking for a faithful bio, forget it. If you are looking for a solidly pleasing film with top-notch performances, pounce!
Sarandon delivers the goods in spades, creating a shrewd and intelligent, bristling flesh and blood woman so wealthy and powerful she answers to no one but suffers from those psychic afflictions known only to the super-rich. Her self-administered therapies include astrology, a fanatical devotion to the care of exotic plants (particularly orchids), travel, indiscriminate sex with a succession of boy toys, and of course massive doses of booze and other drugs to keep going from one day to the next. But she is also intelligent, shrewd, a remarkable businesswoman and connoisseur of the fine arts, all convincingly depicted in this film. It's damned entertaining to watch her but if you think about it, no one of her age with that kind of serious drug dependency could look that good. Fiennes matches her every step of the way with a kind of perturbed restraint as the lonely, passive, alcoholic butler. He says at one point that what he wants from Duke is not her money, but just to take care of her. This utterance is completely believable. Unlike the 1999 TV movie about the same pair starring Lauren Bacall and Richard Chamberlain, this butler is much more ambiguous and definitely not a sadistic manipulator.