Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
Elaine Stritch Shoot Me is a 2013 documentary film directed by Chiemi Karasawa about the life and career of Elaine Stritch. Alec Baldwin and Broadway producer Cheryl Wiesenfeld served as executive producers on the film. It opened in theaters onFebruary 2014, shortly before Stritchs death in July 2014.
Elaine Stritch Shoot Me holds a 98 rating at Rotten Tomatoes from 53 reviews. The critical consensus reads Brutally honest and utterly compelling, Elaine Stritch Shoot Me offers a riveting, vanityfree portrait of its legendary subject while offering a few essential truths about the human condition.Jake Coyle of The Associated Press called it an irresistibly entertaining documentary that captures Stritch during what she unsentimentally calls almost posttime. After seven decades performing in New York on Broadway, in countless cabaret nights at the Cafe Carlyle Stritchs enormous energy has been knocked by the increasing years, diabetes, and surgeries on her hip and eyes. But Shoot Me, made over the last few years, is a document not of Stritchs dwindling, but of her feisty persistence. ........
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