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Jan 18, 2017TEENREVIEWCREW rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
Grace of Monaco is a biopic film starring Nicole Kidman as the late Grace Kelly. When the film starts, Grace Kelly has been married to Prince Rainier for six years and she faces a tough decision: go back to Hollywood and star in Alfred Hitchcock's Marnie or stay in Monaco with her husband and children as they face the tax crisis of 1962. The film starts with "the following film is a fictional account inspired by real events." The film does exaggerate the tax crisis and places real, historical events in the wrong time frame and not exactly how it occurred. The critics and even the Royal family of Monaco hated the film but it is watchable. The sets and costumes have been given a lot of effort and it shows. Nicole Kidman's acting is pretty good (though she fades in and out of accent) and most of her costars do a fine job acting as well. This can make the film better or worse for the audience as it does show potential to be better than it was. I do find the film disrespectful to the legacy of the late Grace Kelly but because of its potential and the acting, I will give it a 2/5. Personally, give the film a pass... it's pretty terrible. - @papertiger of the Teen Review Board at the Hamilton Public Library