Is Bettie Page any good? Oscar contender?

I know this film seems to have been released in limited release. A local
independant movie house is showing it but none of the three chains.

Will it get a wide release? Also is it worth seeing? Does it compare
well to the previous biopics of last two years - Capote, Walk the Line,
Ray etc? Or like the blah Beyond the Sea?

Any news if the actress playing Page will be nominated? Oscar voters
looove biopic actors.

TBerk...

Limited release in Art Houses means something, but at least it _got_
released.

Derek Janssen...

It was produced by HBO/IFC, and probably WOULD have played
original-cable HBO, if not for the "cool" arthouse-culture tie.

Which, as noted, puts it smack in the "Well-meaning but Capote it ain't"
cable-bio category with a few dozen other "Too hot/obscure for
broadcast" bios to come out of the two networks.

Derek Janssen (who could maybe see "RKO 281" getting Oscar notice, but
not "*61" or that Geoffrey Rush "Peter Sellers" thing)
ejanss@comcast.net

It looks like I might own a copy at one point but I won't first in
line. Seems a good addition to the stuff that predated R. Crumb and
Fritz the Cat style imagery.

Kris Baker...

Take note of when it's being released. That pretty much answers your
questions.

Harkness...

It won't get a wide release.

It's worth renting, mostly for Gretchen Mol's performance.

It's nowhere near as good as Capote.

Nominated? It won't even be remembered at Oscar time.

John Harkness

defiant...

Oscar voters love biopic actors that make dents, Bettie Page didn't
cause much of a ripple. By all accounts, it doesn't really show much
about Page but the central performance was considered entertaining.