Call Me Kate (2023)

• Year: 2023
• Released: 12 May 2023
• Country: United States
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• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13093834/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/call_me_kate
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• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: TV-14
• Genre: Documentary
• Runtime: 86 min
• Writer: Lorna Tucker
• Director: Lorna Tucker
• Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Bonnie Greer, Mundy Hepburn
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	7.1/10
	50% – Critics
	50% – Audience

Call Me Kate Storyline

Katharine ‘Kate’ Hepburn is definitive and distinctive, a force of nature, a once-in-a generation talent, whose progressive and free-spirited nature defines her roles, an actress who wins more Academy Awards than any other. Our audience experiences an intimate revelation, the truth behind the beautiful, chiseled, public face. We celebrate a radical and pioneering woman of profound influence, who doesn’t fit into any of the ‘boxes’ expected of her. Throughout her life, she wears various female identities: daughter, sister, actress, beauty, wife, girlfriend, victim, superstar. It takes great loss and hard won insight to be happy just being Kate. Call Me Kate is also a movie for the outcasts, the misfits, the girls and boys uncomfortable in their own skin, who don’t conform with traditional expectations. It is the universal story of how – like Kate – we must be true to ourselves, not the forces that shape us.

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Call Me Kate Movie Reviews

Call me a bit disappointed

I was looking forward to this about an actress and person I’ve long admired, but I found this to be somewhat disappointing. There’s little here that is new other than some audio tapes that are sometimes hard to understand, and not terribly revelatory, and some nice home movie clips of when she was young. She was quite the force to reckon with, highly intelligent, charismatic and uniquely beautiful. The film clips are wonderful, though almost all too short with many overlooked entirely. Some of her comments are insightful and she was a woman way ahead of her time and an actress unlike any other. Just ask whoever is trying to impersonate her here, which is one of the major problems with this documentary. The narration by a person attempting, poorly, to sound like her and to present this in sort of a first person narrative just doesn’t work very well at all nor does a person pretending to be her from behind, in the shadows, etc. I nearly turned this off due to these contrived annoyances, but I still find the subject matter interesting despite reading about her for decades. I was hoping to learn something new, but perhaps she has been covered so much for so long that there simply is nothing new. Most of the balance of the narrative is presented by those who were not close, if at all, to her simply due to time marching on. Still, she was a fascinating and strong woman who lived a life most of us can only dream of. One of the more prominent comments from her, the real her, made here is about how lucky and appreciative she was to have the parents she did. We too can thank them. Odd near the end, this is not a very strong piece of filmmaking which I get the impression mostly exists due to the existence of those old scratchy audio tapes.

Objective documentary

An interesting and objective doc on Katharine Hepburn. It gives an honest and balanced portrayal of the kind of person she was. I enjoyed the objectivity of it, with many surviving family members giving their insights. It doesn’t overly glorify her or unnecessarily undermines. I’m quite neutral to her celebrity and found this worth my time. There is a great deal about her childhood and the family she grew up in before her acting career. Included are audio recordings of interviews in her own voice though much is read by a voice actor. My personal takeaway is that once she knew she wanted to be famous, she became basically a quite selfish person. Not completely heartless but ultimately very self-absorbed and only attuned to what she wanted.

Well Constructed Documentary

This documentary covers an iconic actress whose life is well known.

But the film uses very good primary sources, mainly actual interviews, and the editing is first rate.

I don’t think I learned anything dramatically new, but the way the subject is arranged brought some new insights into the information.

If nothing else, it’s interesting to have a documentarian openly discussing gender and orientation. (As Hepburn herself would have been open to doing–as she actually did on tape in years past.)

Katharine Hepburn was ahead of her time. She may well still be ahead of our time. Because the woman lived a truly authentic life without the usual self-limiting worries most of us have.