Dark Roots: The Unauthorized Anna Nicole

If only Federico Fellini were still alive. He's the director who could truly do Anna Nicole Smith justice. But Fenton and Randy do a fine job anyway. An Utterly fascinating story of a larger than life (in more ways than one) personality. Clearly Marshall died a happy man.

While our heroine's troubles with her late husband's family (far trashier than the one she came from) "Dark Roots" is filled with all sorts of delightful details about two worlds few know -- the Super-Rich and the Super-Poor.

That Vicki got up and got out -- into the REALLY Big Time -- is utterly fascinating. This doesn't happened every day. And monsters like Marshall's family (who could have settled accounts with her years ago but hang onto every penny like grim death) don't happen every day either.

This is one of the funniest movies I have seen. This movie caught our attention as we were flipping by it on our way to something else. It was so funny, we never made it to what we were intending to watch. My husband and I laughed so hard, we kept having to rewind the DVR to hear what we had laughed over.

At first we were not sure that this movie was supposed to be funny, but soon we realized that there were too many "coincidences" to not be planned. To catch most of these, you have to watch the background closely. However, several were made very obvious, such as the discussion with the woman in bed (her aunt?) about drugs and then the camera pans to all of the prescription bottles sitting nearby.

It really isn't nice to make fun of people, but her family is so funny, I'm sure that Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato just couldn't help themselves. These guys are geniuses and they sure gave Christopher Guest a run for his money and they were even using real people.