Aaron Sorkin's Being the Ricardos isn't great for reasons that are interesting, and is downright bad for reasons that are, perhaps, even more interesting. Depicting one week in the production life of I Love Lucy after Lucille Ball (Nicole Kidman) has been smeared as a Communist by the tabloids, the film explores the anxieties of the "Red Scare" along with the rising tensions in the marriage between Lucy and Desi Arnaz (Javier Bardem), whose "wild nights" with other women have also just swept the gossip headlines, and at the same time his wife has learned she is pregnant. Read more |
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