Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
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| Directed by | Chiemi Karasawa |
| Produced by | Chiemi Karasawa Elizabeth Hemmerdinger |
| Starring | Elaine Stritch |
| Music by | Kristopher Bowers |
| Cinematography | Shane Sigler Joshua Z. Weinstein Rod Lamborn |
| Edited by | Kjerstin Rossi Pax Wassermann |
| Distributed by | Sundance Selects |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $288,896[1] |
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me is a 2013 documentary film directed by Chiemi Karasawa about the life and career of Elaine Stritch.[2] Alec Baldwin and Broadway producer Cheryl Wiesenfeld served as executive producers on the film. It opened in theaters on 21 February 2014,[2] shortly before Stritch's death in July 2014.[3]
Karasawa and crew began following Stritch in 2011, she was 86 at the time.[4]
Subjects
In addition to Stritch, several of her close friends and collaborators were featured in the film:
- Alec Baldwin
- Rob Bowman
- Tina Fey
- James Gandolfini
- Paul Iacono
- Cherry Jones
- Julie Keyes
- Nathan Lane
- Tracy Morgan
- Harold Prince
- John Turturro
- George C. Wolfe
The film was also dedicated to the memory of Gandolfini, who died before it was released.[5]
Release
The film had limited release in US theaters on 21 February 2014.[2]
It has been released to video on demand[6] and was later available on Netflix. [7]
Reception
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me holds a 98% rating at Rotten Tomatoes from 53 reviews. The critical consensus reads: "Brutally honest and utterly compelling, Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me offers a riveting, vanity-free portrait of its legendary subject while offering a few essential truths about the human condition."[8]
Jake Coyle of The Associated Press called it "an irresistibly entertaining documentary that captures Stritch during what she unsentimentally calls 'almost post-time.' After seven decades performing in New York — on Broadway, in countless cabaret nights at the Cafe Carlyle — Stritch's enormous energy has been knocked by the increasing years, diabetes, and surgeries on her hip and eyes. But Shoot Me, made over the last few years, is a document not of Stritch's dwindling, but of her feisty persistence."[9]
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