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Summary
James Rasin's documentary “Beautiful Darling” honors American Transgender actress and best-known Warhol Superstar, Candy Darling, and her all-too-brief life and career, with a combination of current and vintage interview material, rarely seen archival photos and footage, and extracts from Darling's movies.
Good for
- Friends night
- Thought-provoking
- Adults
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Critics vs audiences
Critics and audiences agree
Critics 72Audiences 74GoodWatch 62
Tomatometer75%
Metascore69
Audience score75%
IMDb7.3
Running time
1 h 26 min
Shorter than most documentaries, −10 min on the typical 96
typical 9686Half of all documentaries run 89–107 min.
Reach
Streams in 139 countries
+129Released
2010
April 2, 2010
16 years ago
Genre
DocumentaryLanguage
English
Original language
Made in
- United States
and 21 more38 people
- Candy DarlingSelf (archive footage)
- Andy WarholSelf (archive footage)
- Holly WoodlawnSelf
- Fran LebowitzSelf
- Paul MorrisseySelf
- Julie NewmarSelf
- JNJeremiah NewtonSelf
- John WatersSelf
- Jackie CurtisSelf (archive footage)
Michael J. PollardSelf
Tennessee WilliamsSelf (archive footage)
Lou ReedSelf (archive footage)
Jayne CountySelf
Gerard MalangaSelf
Taylor MeadSelf
Agosto MachadoSelf
NicoSelf (archive footage)
Valerie SolanasSelf (archive footage)- PAPenny ArcadeSelf
Geraldine SmithSelf
Jane FondaSelf (archive footage)
Patton OswaltAndy Warhol (voice) / Truman Capote (voice)
Chloë SevignyCandy Darling (voice)
Dennis HopperSelf (archive footage)
Directing · 1
- James Rasin Director, Screenplay
Production · 14
- D.J. Martin Executive Producer
- Michael J. Newman Executive Producer
- Lynne Kirby Executive Producer
- Ann Rose Executive Producer
- Jeremiah Newton Producer
- Elisabeth Bentley Producer
Camera · 6
- Martina Radwan Director of Photography
- Gabriel Judet-Weinshel Additional Director of Photography
- Marcela Coto Assistant Camera, Assistant Editor
- Alan McIntyre Smith Additional Director of Photography
- Ganesh Hennigs Assistant Camera
- Luis Colon Additional Director of Photography
Editing · 1
- Brian Gates Assistant Editor
Sound · 7
- Gerald Busby Music
- Louis Durra Music
- Andy Hay Supervising Sound Editor, Sound Re-Recording Mixer, Sound Designer
- Laura Sinnott Sound Engineer
- Jesse Flower-Ambroch Sound Mixer
- Robin Shore Sound Mixer
Other crew · 1
- Ben Decter Additional Music
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