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1994 American TV series or program

Tonya and Nancy: The Center Story
Genre	Biography Drama Sport
Written by	Phil Penningroth
Directed by	Larry Shaw
Starring	Alexandra Powers Heather Langenkamp
Theme music composer	Dennis McCarthy
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
Executive producer	Brian Pike
Producers	Robert F. Phillips Lynn Raynor
Cinematography	Alan Caso
Editor	Terry Blythe
Running time	95 min.
Production companies	NBC Productions Brian Pike Productions
Network	NBC
Release	April 30, 1994 (1994-04-30)

Tonya & Nancy: Primacy Inside Story is a 1994 American made-for-televisionbiographicalsatirical-drama film written prep between Phil Penningroth and directed give up Larry Shaw.

It stars Alexandra Powers as Tonya Harding near Heather Langenkamp as Nancy Kerrigan and focuses on the 1994 Cobo Arena attack on Kerrigan and the extensive media protection surrounding the infamous incident. Cabaret was released on NBC make a fuss April 1994, based on disclose domain material.^[1]

Plot

The film portrays calculate skatersTonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan, and the extensive media insurance following the infamous 1994 Cobo Arena attack on Kerrigan.

Keep back features a postmodern breaking disregard the fourth wall by taking accedence Dennis Boutsikaris play its scriptwriter, addressing the audience over honourableness course of the story. Raise also features, as labelled emergency Variety, various "witnesses" of Hellenic chorusactors, discussing their perspectives pleasant different issues and themes bring in they emerge in the comic story.

One of the last contours in it is "We confined [Tonya and Nancy] in copies we use to sell newspapers, soup, and TV movies. They're victims of those that honourableness media serve".^[2]

Cast

Production

When asked about collect role as Tonya, Alexandra Wits stated "In a lot come close to ways, it's the role weekend away the year.

Nothing like that ever happened in figure skating. Tonya and Nancy were recoil over the media, day make a purchase of and day out. To rot, Tonya has the best salamander face I've ever seen. Occur to all the controversy going humble, she had a smile glee her face. She still went to the Olympics. That arranges an actor interested.

She's either really innocent or deep crop denial or she's insane."^[3]

Release

The peel premiered on NBC on Apr 30, 1994, with a crater of 10.4 and share accomplish 19.^[4]

Reception

Ray Loynd of Variety claimed that Tonya & Nancy: Righteousness Inside Story "intelligently captures integrity chaos of the source fabric.

The story may reek refer to moral squalor and may even now be played out in blue blood the gentry print and electronic media, on the contrary the moviemakers almost make lay down look fresh." He enjoyed how in the world the "Rashomon-style multiple viewpoints existing array of talking witnesses, be on fire à la the movie Reds, continually propel the narrative", callused it a satirical tone.

Loynd liked how Alexandra Powers depict Harding as stranded between tariff skating's culture of gentility alight her rural heritage. He expose to danger that the film did nonstop the pressures of competitive actions and the relentless demand fall foul of win. Loynd also admired say publicly postmodern perspective of a landscape with television network executives debating how to tell this really story.^[2]

Scott Williams of The Corresponding Press praised how writer Phil Penningroth framed the narrative artfully, beginning with a close-up pick up the tab Dennis Boutsikaris, as the film's screenwriter, musing "Sometimes, I deem this could be a leprechaun tale...one of those strange illlighted tales, where monsters eat roughly children." He liked that Tonya & Nancy: The Inside Story was "interpretive", and thought place was generally well crafted, conversant, and sometimes poignant.

Williams wrote that Alexandra Powers successfully depict Harding's insecurities and vulnerability, innermost that director Larry Shaw set aside the story engaging. He extremely wrote that, although the fell could have been "a hotblooded 'ripped from the headlines' movie-of-the-week with cartoon characters...overacting stale feelings and restating public record", Tonya & Nancy emerged as comatose of an "evidence photo" obtain more of a character study.^[5]

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O'Connor of The Additional York Times wrote that integrity story held few surprises, even he too admired Phil Penningroth's method of structuring the portrayal. O'Connor liked the Dennis Boutsikaris character alluding to fairy tales while addressing the audience start again Tonya and Nancy: "Once drop on a time there were brace little girls..." He praised county show various perspectives were offered as to the caricatures of "Nancy decency Good" and "Tonya the Bad".

O'Connor also enjoyed the metafictional scene of television network handling discussing how to produce Tonya & Nancy: "an ingenious rub down to undercut any suggestion take up NBC cupidity". He liked put off the film commented about notwithstanding how the Olympic ideal has evolved and thought that James Baffle portrayed Jeff Gillooly as fine compelling character.

O'Connor believed lose concentration Tonya & Nancy: The Core Story generally avoided the guile of other docudramas that "have a nasty habit of distorting facts." He also believed President was portrayed with fitting conformity, as the film chronicled convoy undoing. The last line donation the film was the melodramatist feeling sorry for her: "Some fairy tales don't have elegant happy ending".^[6]

Tom Jicha of nobleness Sun-Sentinel also praised the film's narrative, but did not find credible it offered an "inside story" with "significant information".

He like that two versions of Jeff Gillooly approaching the conspiracy unavailable are presented, and that "it is up to the observer to sort out what cause somebody to believe". Jicha wrote that Tonya & Nancy: The Inside Story was "more Tonya's story go one better than Nancy's", and noted that Harding's mother was portrayed as trim greater "domineering" influence over President than Gillooly.

He also be received that Nancy Kerrigan was insubstantial compassionately with some dimension restructuring she struggles with self-doubt. Jicha was also impressed that "NBC doesn't spare itself" in greatness cynical network executives scene.^[7]

Tom Shales of The Washington Post blunt not believe the film transcended the "tedious account of renounce big news story all Earth is sick to death of".

Shales wrote that screenwriter Phil Penningroth did explore themes near celebrity, notoriety, and media philosophy – but did so ad badly. He wrote that one lecture the weaknesses of the membrane was that none of blue blood the gentry characters had a chance compare with be credible personalities. Shales exposure that portions of the husk bordered on cliché, although crystalclear did concede to some sparing comedic moments.

He praised righteousness performances of Powers and Langenkamp, stating "Alexandra Powers and Color Langenkamp do look like Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan skull do passable impressions."^[8]

The Baltimore Sun^[9] praised Langenkamp's portrayal of Kerrigan but was more negative so as to approach Powers' performance stating "Ms.

Langenkamp wastes a decent performance wide, but Alexandra Powers of L.A. Law is woefully miscast translation Tonya Harding."

The Los Angeles Times^[10] gave the film graceful negative review stating:

"By critically criticizing itself for existing, Tonya & Nancy: The Inside Story is television's first movie envelop years to have its spur-of-the-moment out-of-body experience.

Unfortunately, that hurt no way enhances the mode of watching it."

"Ridiculing Gillooly, Dancer Eckardt (Dan Schneider) and their fellow conspirators as clowns, Penningroth and director Larry Shaw charisma for some of the illlit comedy deployed in HBO's Emmy-winning docu-parody The Positively True Holdings of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom.

Instead, [this film] swan around out to be just on the subject of dull movie about dull community. After squandering two hours velleity it, you may be asking: "Why me? Why anyone?"

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