Director:
Andrew Bergman

Screenplay:
Paul Rudnick

Cast:
Bette Midler, Nathan Lane, Stockard Channing, David Hyde Pierce,
Amanda Peet, John Cleese

Bio/Comedy/Romance, USA/UK/Germany/Japan
2000, 91 minutes, colour, Original English Language


“All I know about are aging stars, hopeful hookers and people popping pills and winding up in the gutter... And nobody writes books about that.”

Sticking to the famous adage of writing about what you know, Jacqueline Susann went from being a washed-up actress to a best-selling, and extremely wealthy authoress of such famous and famously trashy novels as “The Valley Of The Dolls”, “The Love Machine” and “Once Is Not Enough”.

Who better, then, to play the over-the-top Susann than the equally larger than life Bette Midler? True to form, the Devine Miss M (Oscar® nominated, Golden Globe® Award winning for “The Rose”) attacks the part with full-on gusto, giving it and the full-mouthed, bawdy Susann the works!

By turns raucously funny, touching and romantic, ISN’T SHE GREAT is your opportunity to savour an incredible cast having a great time with the kind of material you would have to make up if it hadn’t been true!

Nathan Lane (“The Producers”) plays Susann’s promoter and later husband. Academy Award® nominee John Cleese is her flamboyant publisher and David Hyde-Pierce (TV’s “Frasier”) is her buttoned-down editor who slowly comes to loosen up under Susann’s sheer force of nature. Academy Award® nominee Stockard Channing plays Susann’s equally foul-mouthed friend. Music is by none other than Burt Bacharach.

Capturing the time, place and spirit of the sexual revolution, ISN’T SHE GREAT is showcase entertainment of the finest kind.