Synopsis
Broadway legend Elaine Stritch remains in the spotlight at eighty-seven years old. Join the uncompromising Tony and Emmy Award-winner both on and off stage in this revealing documentary. With interviews from Tina Fey, Nathan Lane, Hal Prince and others, ELAINE STRITCH: SHOOT ME blends rare archival footage and intimate cinema vérité to reach beyond Stritch’s brassy exterior, revealing a multi-dimensional portrait of a complex woman and an inspiring artist.
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Cast
- Elaine StritchHerself
- Tina FeyHerself
- Cherry JonesHerself
- Nathan LaneHimself
- James GandolfiniHimself
- Alec BaldwinHimself
- John TurturroHimself
- Hal PrinceHimself
Recommendations
- 100
Observer
At 88, after nearly seven decades in show business, Ms. Stritch is sharp, funny, brittle, caustic, demanding, exaggerated, critical (especially of herself) and infuriating. She is also elaborately unique and awesomely brilliant. - 91
Entertainment Weekly
In Shoot Me, she wears her spiked cynicism like a cutting form of grace, and everyone around her (including audiences) gets healed by it. - 91
IndieWire
The contrast between the movie’s traditional execution and Stritch’s domineering powers create the lingering sense that she may be the project’s true auteur. - 80
The Hollywood Reporter
What makes this film such a warm and touching portrait is that it reveals a woman who, even at her lowest, never loses her sense of humor. - 80
Variety
Karasawa deftly orchestrates the sometimes hairpin tonal shifts, never veering towards the saccharine; if she did, Stritch would probably shoot her. - 80
Time Out
This is a life lived, perhaps not always well, but certainly to the fullest. - 80
Village Voice
The kind of movie fans will be quoting for the rest of their lives, Shoot Me, from director-producer Chiemi Karasawa, is as much a playdate as portrait, a jumble of salty highlights attesting to the pleasure of her company. - 80
The Dissolve
Thanks to remarkable access to her subject, and a refusal to turn away during even the most personal moments, Karasawa has made something deeper: a portrait of Stritch just as the aging process is beginning to punch holes in her concrete dam of a personality.
