Britney Ever After (2017)

A chronicle of the life and career of singer Britney Spears, from humble beginnings on the Mickey Mouse Club to mega stardom, a heavily publicized fall from grace, and a monumental comeback.

Director:

Leslie Libman

Writer:

Anne-Marie Hess

Stars:

Natasha Bassett, Nathan Keyes, Nicole Oliver

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Natasha Bassett	...	Britney Spears
Nathan Keyes	...	Justin Timberlake
Nicole Oliver	...	Lynne Spears
Matthew Harrison	...	James Spears
Peter Benson	...	Larry Rudolph
Clayton James	...	Kevin Federline (as Clayton Chitty)
Lindsay Gibson	...	Felicia Cullotta
Jenna Berman	...	Filmmaker
Benjamin Arcé	...	Sam Lutfi (as Benjamin Arce)
Corey Woods	...	Friend From Home
Josie Bulbrook	...	Jamie Lynn Spears
Devon Alexander	...	Bodyguard
Markian Tarasiuk	...	Wade Robson
Harrison MacDonald	...	Reg Jones
Emma Johnson	...	Ali Sims

Storyline

A chronicle of the life and career of singer Britney Spears, from humble beginnings on the Mickey Mouse Club to mega stardom, a heavily publicized fall from grace, and a monumental comeback.

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Plot Keywords:

britney spears character | actress name in title | singer | based on real person | reference to britney spears | 

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Genres:

Biography | Drama | Music

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Certificate:

TV-14

Did You Know?

Trivia

Britney Ever After features no original Britney Spears songs. The songs "...Baby One More Time" and "Oops, I Did It again" are referenced, as well as "I'm a Slave 4 U," shown by the dance moves and the yellow python. The movie only features two covers that Spears sang during her career. The first is "Satisfaction" from the 2000 Video Music Awards, a Rolling Stones Cover, and the second is "I Love Rock 'n Roll," originally by The Arrows and an alternative version by Joan Jett.

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Goofs

When Britney leaves the dance room after rehearsal of "I'm a Slave 4 U", a song that was released in 2001, there is a "No photos, no cellphones" sign. The cellphone is designed like a smartphone, which didn't exist until 2007.

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Quotes

Britney Spears: I'm not gonna sugar-coat it and say I was fine. 'Cause I wasn't.

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Connections

References Saturday Night Live (1975)

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Soundtracks

Trouble
Music and lyrics by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller
Performed by Natasha Bassett

User Reviews

An unexplainable, amateurish mess

STAR RATING: ***** Saturday Night **** Friday Night *** Friday Morning ** Sunday Night * Monday Morning NO STARS End of Days

A made for TV biopic of the pop icon Britney Spears (Natasha Bassett), from starting out with her breakthrough single Baby One More Time in 1999, where she was shoved into the limelight by her pushy mother Lynne (Nicole Oliver) and domineering manager Larry Rudolph (Peter Benson), who both naively thought she was old and mature enough to handle such massive media exposure and pushed her to lie about her virginity to keep up an illusion, through to the trials and turbulence of her relationships with Justin Timberlake (Nathan Keyes) and Kevin Federline (Clayton Chitty), before a revealing 2008 documentary aired.

Sometimes, something can give you a really bad vibe, yet you still feel utterly compelled to see it. Your instinct can tell you it looks really bad, and you can see no end of bad reviews, and you can almost write a review before you've even seen it, but still you're still interested in the subject matter and you just have to see it yourself. While I've never been a massive fan of her music, something about Britney Spears has always captivated me and kept my attention, being such an icon of popular culture as she is. For all this, though, I've never gotten the feeling she was comfortable with this status, and so a dramatisation of her life, as inevitable as it was, was never something I thought she'd be happy about (and, from what's been said, that's definitely the case with this.)

Such a popular name is Britney, that a big studio could quite willingly have thrown its clout behind a production of her life, so why this no budget monstrosity is even in existence is ripe for question. And what little budget it must have had, as the terrible production values are in evidence from the opening credits, and from there, like a crashing plane whirling down from the sky, it just becomes an even bigger amateurish, terribly made mess. Lead star Bassett looks, and pretty much sounds, nothing like the real Britney, and her portrayal of her is just excruciating, as is Nathan Keyes's cringe-worthy performance as first love Justin. You never get the feeling you're watching a real life unfolding, just a corny, overblown childish imagining.

This is just the typical sort of thing you see on the Hallmark Channel/True Entertainment, only the worst kind of example, and one which you can really see from the outset and just trust your instincts on. NO STARS

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

18 February 2017 (USA)

Also Known As:

Britney

Filming Locations:

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Company Credits

Production Co:

Asylum Entertainment

Technical Specs

Runtime:

120 min 84 min (streaming)

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

16:9 HD