She was a hot mess long before there was a word for it. Miss Wyoming Joyce McKinney is at the center of a gripping true-crime story that continues to make jaws drop, and documentary maker extraordinaire Errol Morris recounts her story as only he can in TABLOID, which IFC Films and MPI Media Group will bring to DVD on November 1, 2011. The disc has an SRP of $24.98.
Oscar-winning director Errol Morris presents his most provocative – and sexiest – film yet. Thirty years before the antics of Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears, Miss Wyoming Joyce McKinney made her mark as a tabloid staple. In the late 1970s, McKinney kidnapped her former beau, Kirk Anderson, who had become a Mormon missionary in the U.K., and tied him to a bed to “deprogram” his religious beliefs – by having nonstop sex with him.
Morris (The Fog of War, The Thin Blue Line) follows the salacious adventures of this beauty queen with an IQ of 168 whose single-minded devotion to the man of her dreams leads her across the globe, into jail and onto the front page. On the way, Morris visits a surreal world of risqué photography, magic underwear and celestial sex. Funny, strange and disturbing and complete with new interviews with McKinney, TABLOID is a vivid portrait of obsession, delusion and scandal sheet notoriety.
An Official Selection at the 2011 San Francisco, Toronto and SXSW film festivals, TABLOID has received some of the best reviews journalism can provide. The Chicago Sun-Times’ Roger Ebert gave it 4 Stars and called it “one of Errol Morris’ best and most intriguing … a tantalizing experience.” “Marvelously bizarre … as wild as anything you can imagine,” said A.O. Scott of The New York Times. “One of the most thoroughly entertaining films of the year,” wrote Eric Hynes in The Village Voice.
Leslie Stonebraker of New York Press said, “It doesn’t really matter who is lying when every version of the story is fantastically entertaining.” Entertainment Weekly’s Owen Gleiberman gave the movie a grad of A and called it “succulent, fascinating and bizarrely touching. Pure movie candy.”
