Hammerman Ikon

Hammerman Ikon Film Guide

Tabloid
2010
***
Director: Errol Morris
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In 1977, Joyce McKinney, a former beauty queen from Wyoming, hired some goons and travelled to the UK to rescue the love of her life from a cult. However, according to the young Mormon missionary in question, she abducted and raped him. Errol Morris tells Joyce's incredible story and shows how the competing British tabloids turned a nobody into a celebrity and portrayed her either as a saint or as a sinner. McKinney is a self-absorbed eccentric and her life is full of unbelievable twists, but this somewhat trivial documentary is rather conventionally told.