I am one of the world’s ultimate Bettie fans and can’t wait till this comes out on DVD. Though I would say that it wasn’t the best they could’ve done, but it wasn’t horrible. I mean it was an HBO film. At first I was a little iffy about Gretchen Mol playing Bettie because of the body, but she did a pretty good job. I’d actually like to see her acting in other films now, since I’ve never really seen anything else of hers.
Of course they could’ve added more things of importance that went on in her life, but hey, it’s a movie, they can never fit everything about one person in an hour and a half or two hour film.

i was sort of hoping the movie would fill in the gaps in the biography. i just didn’t feel the whole “i’m getting back to jesus” thing was adequately explained to me. i guess i still don’t completely get it. maybe i’m just dense about the whole christian sin thing. it was beautiful, but felt slow at times and not in a character building sort of way.