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Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds

Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds

Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds

2016
Documentary
TV Movie
1h 35m
An intimate portrait of Hollywood royalty featuring Debbie Reynolds, Todd Fisher, and Carrie Fisher. (imdb)

Directed by:

Fisher Stevens
Fisher-Stevens
47 total credits
Fisher Stevens is an American actor, director and producer. His most recent successes include the 2010 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for his film The Cove and 2008 Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary Feature for his film Crazy Love. As an actor, he is well-known for his portrayals of Chuck Fishman on Early Edition, Seamus O'Neill on Key West, Eugene "The Plague" Belford in Hackers, Iggy in Super Mario Brothers, Hawk Ganz in The Flamingo Kid...(Wikipedia)
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Alexis Bloom
Alexis-Bloom
4 total credits
Alexis Bloom has 4 credits at Criticker, including: Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes, Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg and The Bibi Files

Starring:

Griffin Dunne
Griffin-Dunne
54 total credits
Griffin Dunne (born June 8, 1955) is an American actor and film director. Dunne starred in An American Werewolf in London (1981) as Jack Goodman, Johnny Dangerously (1984) as Tommy Kelly, After Hours (1985) as Paul Hackett, Who's That Girl (1987) as Loudon Trott, My Girl (1991) as Jake Bixler, Quiz Show (1994) as an Account Guy, Game 6 (2005) as Elliott Litvak and I Like It Like That (1994) as Stephen Price...(Wikipedia)
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Carrie Fisher
Carrie-Fisher
62 total credits
Fisher was born in Beverly Hills, California, the daughter of singer Eddie Fisher and actress Debbie Reynolds. Her paternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants, but she was raised Protestant.
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Debbie Reynolds
Debbie-Reynolds
60 total credits
Debbie Reynolds is an American actress, singer, and dancer. Debbie Reynolds regularly appeared in movie musicals during the 1950s and had several hit records during the period. Her song "Aba Daba Honeymoon" (featured in the 1950 film Two Weeks with Love as a duet with Carleton Carpenter) was a top-three hit in 1951. Her most high-profile film role was in Singin' in the Rain (1952) as Kathy Selden. In Bundle of Joy (1956) she appeared with her then-husband, Eddie Fisher... - www.wikipedia.org
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Todd Fisher
Todd-Fisher
1 total credit
Todd Fisher has just 1 credit at Criticker: Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds

Genre:

Documentary

AKA:

Bright Lights

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds

2016
Documentary
TV Movie
1h 35m
Avg Percentile 67.55% from 55 total ratings

Ratings & Reviews

(55)
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Rated 09 Jan 2017
90
92nd
:') I wish I didn't find out how fun Carrie Fisher was until it was too late because we totally would've been BFFs.
Rated 12 Jan 2017
80
75th
Two cool women doing cool things and oh god why can't I be this cool?
Rated 28 Apr 2020
82
47th
The doc isn't particularly groundbreaking, but is a candid look at two big stars—both of whom became famous in very different ways. And if you ever feel sad about the end of their story, then this film can be cathartic.
Rated 13 Apr 2019
85
90th
Marvelous--it allows both its subjects to shine, without putting anyone on a pedestal. A must for anyone interested in either one. Carrie was one of the funniest women of the last 50 years, and it's such a gift to be able to experience some of her razor-sharp wit and intellect here. And I had no idea she was such a good singer (you'd certainly never know it from the Star Wars Holiday Special...).
Rated 29 Apr 2017
97
94th
Intensely moving documentary no doubt benefits from the contemporaneous passing of Fisher and Reynolds, but on its own terms it serves as a raw and honest dissection of love and affection in a clearly difficult and flinty family, exacerbated by life under the microscope at the dawn of the paparazzi age. That Stevens and Bloom can cover such weighty topics (as well as Reynolds' and Fisher's respective roles in pop culture) in such a concise amount of time is a credit to them and their 'stars'.
Rated 25 Jan 2017
83
85th
Just heartbreaking, even more so under the circumstances. A great documentary with love and humor emerging from every scene, even though they show the dark sides and times as well.
Rated 11 Jan 2017
40
57th
Too depressing to enjoy just weeks after the double-shock.
Rated 09 Jan 2017
60
43rd
It was wonderful to see home movie footage of the family growing up, and I learned a lot. It was sad, too, of course. Carrie is hilarious in it, and someone I really admire. I truly wish I could've been friends with her. As a film, it's nothing spectacular. But it doesn't really need to be - it just lets the two amazing women be themselves, aided by a lot of archival footage. Definitely worth a watch if you're at all interested in either of them.

Cast & Info

Directed by:

Fisher Stevens
Fisher-Stevens
47 total credits
Fisher Stevens is an American actor, director and producer. His most recent successes include the 2010 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for his film The Cove and 2008 Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary Feature for his film Crazy Love. As an actor, he is well-known for his portrayals of Chuck Fishman on Early Edition, Seamus O'Neill on Key West, Eugene "The Plague" Belford in Hackers, Iggy in Super Mario Brothers, Hawk Ganz in The Flamingo Kid...(Wikipedia)
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Alexis Bloom
Alexis-Bloom
4 total credits
Alexis Bloom has 4 credits at Criticker, including: Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes, Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg and The Bibi Files

Starring:

Griffin Dunne
Griffin-Dunne
54 total credits
Griffin Dunne (born June 8, 1955) is an American actor and film director. Dunne starred in An American Werewolf in London (1981) as Jack Goodman, Johnny Dangerously (1984) as Tommy Kelly, After Hours (1985) as Paul Hackett, Who's That Girl (1987) as Loudon Trott, My Girl (1991) as Jake Bixler, Quiz Show (1994) as an Account Guy, Game 6 (2005) as Elliott Litvak and I Like It Like That (1994) as Stephen Price...(Wikipedia)
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Carrie Fisher
Carrie-Fisher
62 total credits
Fisher was born in Beverly Hills, California, the daughter of singer Eddie Fisher and actress Debbie Reynolds. Her paternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants, but she was raised Protestant.
,
Debbie Reynolds
Debbie-Reynolds
60 total credits
Debbie Reynolds is an American actress, singer, and dancer. Debbie Reynolds regularly appeared in movie musicals during the 1950s and had several hit records during the period. Her song "Aba Daba Honeymoon" (featured in the 1950 film Two Weeks with Love as a duet with Carleton Carpenter) was a top-three hit in 1951. Her most high-profile film role was in Singin' in the Rain (1952) as Kathy Selden. In Bundle of Joy (1956) she appeared with her then-husband, Eddie Fisher... - www.wikipedia.org
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Todd Fisher
Todd-Fisher
1 total credit
Todd Fisher has just 1 credit at Criticker: Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds

Genre:

Documentary

AKA:

Bright Lights

Country:

USA

Language:

English
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