The Lady Bird Diaries

2023

Action / Documentary

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 100% · 15 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 87%
IMDb Rating 7.0/10 10 406 406

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Plot summary

From award-winning filmmaker Dawn Porter comes "The Lady Bird Diaries," a groundbreaking all-archival documentary film about Lady Bird Johnson, one of the most influential and least understood First Ladies. The feature film looks at the 123 hours of personal and revealing audio diaries that Lady Bird recorded during her husband’s administration. The film reveals Lady Bird as an astute observer of character and culture and a savvy political strategist. It recasts her crucial role in LBJ’s presidency and brings viewers behind the scenes of one of the most tumultuous and consequential periods in modern American history.

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Dawn Porter

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Lyndon Johnson Photo
Lyndon Johnson as Self - President of the USA
Lady Bird Johnson Photo
Lady Bird Johnson as Self - FIrst Lady of the USA
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by chaos-rampant

Airbrushed portraiture

This is without real value in my opinion. I'll explain why.Fine, let's have a portrait of the Firsts Lady during one of the most important times in US history. In her own voice too, comprised from voice recordings she made from '63 onwards. By all means let's have it.Up on screen we get Lady Bird as gently and quietly steadying presence, witness and support. There through all the legislative fights, achievements and Vietnam mishandling. The backdrop is familiar, too much so from inumerable films and TV.The tone is more as if penning a letter of pleasantries rather than an intimate diary. There are no strong opinions on anything, except of course unfailing support for LBJ, ever the courteous Southern woman. No real soul baring. But that is how she chooses to present herself in recordings which at the very worst she knew would be made public one day.The real Lady Bird was indeed a courteous Washington host, and unfailingly steadfast in her support of LBJ.So much so, she would famously turn a blind eye to his constant insults, abrasive temper and being yelled and barked orders in their own home in front of stunned guests. To LBJ's numerous infidelities, even in front of her own presence. So devoted to LBJ she would neglect their two young daughters, always putting their needs last to whatever LBJ's day required.Robert Caro is my source for all this, probably the biggest LBJ researcher who will ever live. All this was well known in Washington circles, and she was viewed as "that poor woman".Would Lady Bird confide her feelings about LBJ's womanizing on tape? Of course not. Jackie had to put up with much the same before her, minus the Texas hillbilly manners.But now another picture emerges. Ambiguously human, fragile, maybe even more heroic. Being able to somehow interpolate the two Ladies, now that would have been something to see. This by itself is vacuous, airbrushed, saying nothing.
Reviewed by edmundws 3 / 10

Manipulated recordings to give a false impression

I was intrigued and impressed by the movie's coverage of a conversion between Lady Bird and LBJ regarding Walter Jenkins -- particularly her strong defense of the aide and push back against LBJ. But after listening to the actual full conversation elsewhere, I was shocked to discover the documentary producers sliced, diced and blatantly manipulated the conversation. It's one thing to edit for length and clarity, but they rearranged comments, put them out of order and altered their meaning. It's inexcusable for a doc to play with historic recordings like that, and made me question what else they twisted in a documentary I otherwise would have loved. If you want to take that kind of liberty with historic tape recordings or transcripts -- even in the name of celebrating your subject or trying to capture her spirit -- hire actors and make it a biographical "inspired-by-actual-events" movie.

Reviewed by ops-52535 10 / 10

thank god for...

Brilliant documentary making, and thank you ms porter for revealing it the way you and your crew has done.may i raise a ''dacapo'', there are even more history out there to document...

the frase ''ladybird'' have always had a mystery sound to it, so for those who has forgotten all about president lyndon b. Johnson, about his life and presidency shown and told through the lady birds lense and mic to reminiscence and afterthought..

its really a prefront figurine of the women liberation, showing that the job as a first lady aint a job of raising champagne glasses and joy ever after. A tough lady she mustve been. A big recommend from the grumpy old man.

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