Isn't this current obsession with doing a character assassination of Alfred Hitchcock a bit weird? First the BBC makes a movie glorifying the talentless Tippi Hedren's bitter myth about the man (a myth that runs counter to the testimonies of Grace Kelly, Ingrid Bergman, Kim Novak, Eve Marie Saint and many other far more able women who worked with him), and now there's another biopic that depicts him as a bumbling idiot whose wife Alma was the real brains behind his success. Absolute bunkum. Oh yes, and in order to suggest that Alma, who in reality looked like this -



was being pursued (in her sixties) by lots of handsome men, she's depicted like this -



And the book on which the film is supposedly based mainly focusses on the nude model who did the shower scene, so who do they show in said scene - yes, Janet Leigh.

Why is there such a strange desperation to reduce brilliant people to such pathetic caricatures??

Funny you should post this - I'm off to see it this afternoon (against my better judgement).

It was this, Lincoln or Les Mis....

Well I loved it. Both Hopkins and Mirren are superb. I laughed out loud several times.

No idea how historically accurate it is but it makes a cracking good movie.

Blimey, I thought it was DIRE!

Don't worry, most reviewers agree with you; I almost didn't go... but I loved it. Funny, interesting, stylish... loved the way it started and ended like the TV series - and used the fantastic theme for end credits.