VALLEY OF THE DOLLS (1967)

Guilty Pleasure: "Something that you shouldn't like, but like anyway."  Movie lovers have at least a few, this one often at the top of the list.  Chronicling the story of three young women - Anne (Barbara Parkins), Neely (Patty Duke) and Jennifer (Sharon Tate) - who each enter show business and pay the price for it (often with "dolls" - pills - as a backdrop), Valley of the Dolls was based on the scandalous (for its time) Jacqueline Susann novel ... and in itself became scandalous by just how badly made, badly-acted, and badly-written a film it was.  Yet, on a daytime drama level, there is something mystically watchable about it; something that sucks you in through the lunacy, the overacting, and will soon have you watching it for the tenth or twentieth time, quoting lines and lyrics back to it like The Rocky Horror Picture Show.  A train wreck of a film, yet one you can never tire of, or quite turn away from when it comes on cable.  As addicting as "dolls" themselves. (rated PG-13)  **1/2(film) ****(watchability/awesomeness)

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