Synopsis
The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress, who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice.
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Cast
- Meryl StreepFlorence Foster Jenkins
- Hugh GrantSt. Clair Bayfield
- Simon HelbergCosme McMoon
- Rebecca FergusonKathleen Weatherley
- Nina AriandaAgnes Stark
- Stanley TownsendPhineas Stark
- David HaigCarlo Edwards
- Brid BrennanKitty
- Christian McKayEarl Wilson
- John SessionsDoctor
- 85
TheWrap
This is a fine, funny and moving film tribute to the efforts and passions of its titular heroine, a woman who lived out her dreams, at any price. - 80
Screen Daily
Bouquets all round: Stephen Frears goes broad in Florence Foster Jenkins, and the appeal should be wide. - 80
Time Out London
Director Stephen Frears sketches out her tragic backstory, and Streep in grande dame mode is not to be missed. - 80
Total Film
With Streep on grandstanding form and Grant given a rare chance to show his range, this is an intelligent dramedy that moves and amuses. - 80
Slate
Streep, who has long enjoyed playing women endowed with more than the average supply of gusto, makes the character’s delusional faith in her own talent so infectious that we ache at the thought of Florence’s impending humiliation even as we prepare ourselves to laugh at it. - 70
Variety
Florence Foster Jenkins is an audience picture first and foremost: one wholly sympathetic to its eponymous subject’s delusional drive to delight crowds with or without the requisite artistry. - 70
New York Daily News
It's a pleasure seeing Grant in a great part again, playing the sort of almost-cad he's best at. And Streep - who, in real life, can belt anything from Broadway to Bruce - is clearly having a ball singing badly. - 60
The Hollywood Reporter
Florence Foster Jenkins is a modestly enjoyable crowd-pleaser, but it ultimately feels smaller than its subject, a deeply conventional portrait of a highly unconventional woman.