This movie was on Amazon Prime, which I'd never heard of. Nicole Kidman,
age 45 during production, plays Grace Kelly at age 33. She's been
married to Prince Rainier (Tim Roth) for some time. It's set in 1962 during
the manufactured crisis in which De Gaulle has threatened to invade for
tax revenues because the war in Algiers is a disaster.

Kidman is noticeably taller than Kelly was, at least 4 inches. She
really doesn't age despite marrying Tom Cruise.

The Grimaldi family and her three children were infuriated by the movie,
a deliberate historical anachronism like all Hollywood biopics.

I've read that the script was highly praised but I thought much of it
was weak, especially the beginning. It's sort of a blend of Rebecca and
the solution to the international crisis is straight out of The King and
I.

There are long scenes in which she's being given acting lessons to
effect the perfect demeanor and to precisely convey emotion, and
Hitchcock comes off like a sweet uncle rather than the man who terrified
Tippi Hedren making The Birds. Hollywood wanted to bring her back for
Marnie.

The movie has an ethereal quality letting us know this is Grace's
fantasy, and the colors are saturated immitating Technicolor movies in
the 1950s at the height of her career. I get what the director was
trying to achieve but I thought the unreality hurt the drama.

Financially, the movie was a disaster, held from release, then released internationally in just a few countries and never getting distributed in
the United States. Yet another Harvey Weinstein story screwing over a
director as Weinstein's directors never had final cut. There are
supposed to be three edits of this movie; I don't know which one this
was. There was an edit for Lifetime where it premiered in the United
States in 2015 which the director hated.

I've never understood Weinstein's business strategy, in which he bought
foreign distribution rights and never distributed the foreign film in
the Unted States. I had no idea he pulled the same crap with a movie he
actuall produced.

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On Feb 19, 2026 at 2:07:35 AM PST, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

This movie was on Amazon Prime, which I'd never heard of.

You'd never heard of Amazon Prime? It's a service provided by Amazon that provides free shipping on all orders and then morphed into a streaming service for movies and TV shows.

Nicole Kidman,
age 45 during production, plays Grace Kelly at age 33. She's been
married to Prince Rainier (Tim Roth) for some time. It's set in 1962 during the manufactured crisis in which De Gaulle has threatened to invade for
tax revenues because the war in Algiers is a disaster.

Financially, the movie was a disaster, held from release, then released internationally in just a few countries and never getting distributed in
the United States. Yet another Harvey Weinstein story screwing over a director as Weinstein's directors never had final cut. There are
supposed to be three edits of this movie; I don't know which one this
was.

Well, it apparently wasn't the special European version with necked nudity.



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