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Cinefill1 -Tabloid is a 2010 American documentary film directed by Errol Morris. It tells the story of Joyce McKinney, who in 1977 was accused of kidnapping and raping Kirk Anderson, an American Mormon missionary. The incident, known as the Mormon sex in chains case, became a major tabloid story in the United Kingdom and triggered a circulation battle between two popular tabloid newspapers, the Daily Mirror and the Daily Express.-The film is based on interviews of McKinney, journalist Peter Tory (1939-2012), and photographer Kent Gavin conducted by Morris. The film makes reference to Mormon culture, such as temple garments.--Legal action against Morris: -In November 2011, Joyce McKinney filed a lawsuit with the Los Angeles Superior Court against Errol Morris, claiming that Morris and his producer Mark Lipson told her they were filming for a TV documentary series about the paparazzi. McKinney is suing on the grounds that she was defamed, as the film portrays her as "crazy, a sex offender, an S&M prostitute, and/or a rapist."

SnoopyStyle Joyce McKinney grew up in small town North Carolina. She's smart. She's a former Miss Wyoming. When she moved to Utah, she falls for Kirk Anderson and becomes obsessed with him. He's a Mormon which Joyce considers a cult. She claims that the Mormon church had abducted her fiancé Kirk and sent to England. She, accomplices Keith Joseph May and Gil Parker hire pilot Jackson Shaw to fly to England to rescue Kirk Anderson. Gil and Jackson back out but Joyce and Keith abduct Kirk for three days of sex and fun. They go back to London to get marry. Kirk reads about his own kidnapping. He leaves Joyce and tells the police about the kidnapping. In 1977, he becomes the Manacled Mormon and tabloid fodder after Joyce is charged with abducting and imprisoning Kirk.It's too strange to be true. Director Errol Morris has his classic off-camera voice asking the questions. It's a fascinating true story that the tabloids rightly printed. A couple of things do hold it back slightly. In the end, this is a small story and it's hard to dig deeper than what Joyce allows us to know. This movie needs to have Kirk because he's the only person to counter what she's saying. Is she crazy or is she in love? That's the central question. Maybe she's a bit of both. The story is funny and insane but it's essentially a light weight story.

spelvini There's a theory that acting (playing out a role) is something everyone does all the time, and that the artifice is essentially a streamlined version of living. For an actor on stage with a ready script in hand there are clear definitions outlined for his actions, but for regular people who are proceeding with some internally generated script, goals and motivation can seem fuzzy.Joyce McKinney may seem like a lost loony under the inspection of Errol Morris's camera and interviewing skills, but she comes off as someone completely in control of her emotions and someone capable of justifying all of her actions. This woman is speaking years after her incarceration in Great Britain for the kidnapping and sexual violation of Mormon Kirk Anderson and the sense of joy she exudes in accomplishing her task is something the viewer may be surprised at.Joyce McKinney, beauty pageant queen from a wealthy family who moved to Utah met and fell in love with Mormon Kirk Anderson and decided that their love was a divine fate. When Anderson was called by the church to travel to England to minister to the folks there, McKinney followed with bodyguards. Funding her mission with surreptitious money McKinney lured Anderson away to a remote location chained him to a bed and had sex with him for 3 days. McKinney's intention was to seduce Anderson away from the stifling atmosphere of the Church of Latter Day Saints, and restore their union as a couple. The British law saw McKinney's act as one of kidnapping and rape, took her into custody and tried her.Some interesting facts about the woman arise, like her activities as a nude model for top dollar in Britain, and further, her sex-phone franchise that brought in money to fund her stalking and detaining of Anderson. To look at the woman from twenty years back, she is capable of turning heads and certainly capable of earning professional fees as a model, with and without her clothes.What filmmaker Errol Morris uncovers is the "something" about McKinney that makes her stand out, that special light she seems to stand in. What Tabloid shows is articulate, extroverted, and manipulative and not only is confident in her present status as cultural iconic kook, but her acceptance of it and how she understands its power as her ticket to celebrity star.Errol Morris additionally refuses to add any editorializing to structure some sort of rationale or judgment on his subject. What he does well is bring forth others who have know McKinney and allow their comments to create a visual background to the world McKinney inhabited, and today lives in while still crating weird controversy.It would have been great if Kirk Anderson, the Mormon whom McKinney claims shared true love with, allowed himself to be interviewed for the film. Having that side of the story could have given the viewer some real substantial core truths to go away with. Regardless, Tabloid is a fascinating tale, made more shocking because it really happened.

bob_bear By the last quarter of this turgid, unremitting virtual-monologue, I was in fear of losing my own marbles -- Joyce having clearly lost hers long ago. Pointing a camera at someone and letting them damn themselves with their own deluded waffle is not my idea of effective film making. Completely lacking in visual impact, this "film" might as well have been done on radio.The supporting cast of tabloid creeps interviewed herein are enough to make one's skin crawl. Exploiting a crazy lady is neither funny nor clever so quite why the guy from The Daily Mirror appeared to be so proud of his machinations is beyond me.I'd hoped for some deeper insight. I didn't get any. Only denial and madness. On this showing the woman needed to be sectioned. Too late now though. Far too late.