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    Post dates are when I watched, parenthetical dates are the year of US release (aka Oscar eligibility).

1/26/2020

Judy (2019)

The story covers a period near the end of Judy Garland's life. It's hard for her to get work any more since she's difficult and erratic, which makes taking care of her younger children a problem. When she's offered a London engagement, she must leave her children in the states in order to make the money necessary to provide for them.

We see, in flashbacks, how she got to this point. How the mental abuse heaped on her as a young actress, abandoned to the system by her family,  pushed her to the brink. Her surrogate family was a studio interested only in the box office and not the health of those bringing in the money.

Zellweger simply disappears into the role and did an excellent job of breaking my heart.

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