Call Me Miss Cleo

While not completely awful, this documentary isn't particularly engaging and drags for most of its 90 minutes. Most of the interview subjects add nothing, and even the people who knew Miss Cleo don't offer anything particularly insightful. But perhaps the main problem is that she wasn't a very interesting person. And it seems a bit odd that this doc lets her off so easy for scamming both a theater company before she took on the phony Jamaican identity (she was born in Los Angeles) and of course, all of the people who called into the psychic hotline. At best, she's a footnote -- and worse, she doesn't seem to have any bit of self-reflection or remorse for all of the desperate people who lost money calling into that silly hotline.

I FINALLY GOT MY HANDS ON THIS DOCUMENTARY.

I'M NOT GONNA RATE IT (BECAUSE IT'S BASICALLY FRAGMENTS OF INTERVIEWS FROM PPL WHO KNEW HER) BUT I WANNA HIGHLIGHT IT.

IT'S BASICALLY ABOUT THE LIFE OF MISS CLEO AND HER INFLUENCE.

PSYCHIC HOTLINE "GAME" WAS CHANGED FOREVER SINCE HER STEPPING INTO THIS INDUSTRY. ALTHOUGH SHE MADE SO MUCH MONEY FOR THE COMPANY SHE WORKED FOR, MISS CLEO WAS EXTREMELY MISTREATED WE WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER HER AS THE BRIGHT SOUL, HUGE PERSONALITY AND BEAUTIFUL PERSON INSIDE AND OUT.

I had no intention of being actually engaged with this but was sobbing by the end. Miss Cleo was just some hack from 90s infomercials right? Who knows, but she was also a human with a life and a soul and trauma with people who loved and cared about her. I can just hope that people in my life look back on my mistake sworn as much grace and forgiveness as the people that love her looked back on her.

It also just gives me some mad nostalgia for waking up in the middle of the night on the couch seeing her and being so curious and having idea what is happening and it feels like some weird closure to at least a part of my childhood.

Whatevs, watch it if you have a soul.

This is not a very well made documentary. A good number of the people being interviewed have no personal connection with miss cleo. Nobody in the documentary knows anything about her background/childhood, everyone is just speculating. This film then takes a turn towards the end when it just beings to pander to certain audiences and prolongs useless scenes. This movie is filled with a bunch of useless filler scenes and celebrity commentary that brought absolutely nothing to the documentary. Terrible documentary, no one interviewed knows anything about Cleo. Just random white people saying their her family, but yet they have no idea where she's from.

This documentary is just awful. Incredibly biased on Ms. Cleo's behalf. The woman was a scam artist but this film tries to make you feel sorry for her, while offering up no proof at all. Just drones on and on about meaningless things that have no real connection to the subject matter. Just another blatantly biased documentary that was cobbled together to revise history and push an agenda. Most of the people interviewed have little to no actual connection to Ms. Cleo. The ones who do are biased and there are no conflicting or contrasting views presented. Also, Raven-Symoné is absolutely intolerable in this. Why is she in it in the first place?