Meryl Streep as Florence Foster Jenkins and Hugh Grant as St Clair Bayfield in FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS by Paramount Pictures, Pathé and BBC Films. Photo Credit: Nick Wall. © 2016 PARAMOUNT PICTURES. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
– By Cate Marquis –
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Could singing so bad it provoked laughter raise the spirits of a nation at war? In the case of Florence Foster Jenkins, an heiress and patron of music, it did, although many of her fans did not realize that Mrs. Jenkins didn’t know she was being funny. She really did think she could sing.
This strange but true story is the basis of director Stephen Frears’ FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS. The film stars Meryl Streep as the deluded Mrs. Jenkins, Hugh Grant as her solicitous manager/assistant/second husband St. Clair Bayfield, and Simon Helberg as her beleaguered accompanist Cosme McMoon.
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