Kaptain Bluddflagg The title says it all. I could feel the crazy radiating off the documentary's subject, Joyce McKinney, during portions where she was interviewed, and it eventually became too much when she claimed that it is impossible to rape a man. I managed to watch a little further, but I finally asked myself if I really cared about her and her insane, inane story at all, and then found something better to do with my time.One thing that I did find kind of funny about the documentary is that they seemed to be trying to convince me that yes, she really was a "beauty queen" at one point in time. They really, really try to sell you on the notion that this nutbar's supposed beauty was self evident to all who met her when, to be honest, after looking at some photos of her from the time period the documentary covers, she is actually rather homely. They VERY BRIEFLY mention that she has a 168 IQ, which is kind of funny, because I would have thought the filmmakers would maybe spend more time trying to convince me that she possessed even above average intelligence since she comes across as so vapid and delusional. They mention it once, but then go on and on about how beautiful she was...So let me save you some time: Joyce is as crazy as she sounds and the story is not all that interesting. I went in expecting to at least be amused by her antics, but instead I was just bored and put off by her. Don't waste your time.

realityobserver Crazy lady goes to England to save the 'love of her life' from the Morman cultists... Except he doesn't have a clue... She hires people to help and they unwittingly go along for the ride... This documentary is filled with her claims of being sane, smart, good looking, above average which pretty much all fall flat in about 15 minutes of the program...She obviously is a self centered, narcissistic, selfish, drama queen who thinks it's all about her... Met many woman like this kind, except she was allowed to let it all out in the public in 1977 and beyond, much to almost everyone's joy at her silly antics... She is in my opinion a woman who purposely wrecked her own life at the expense of others and is in need of trained professionals and serious medication...The documentary was just trying to show the documented case and she somehow agreed to participate in the portrayal of her madness. So she then sues the filmmaker, what a laugh, she acts, talks and sends the clear message that she is unhinged, then and now...

paul2001sw-1 Some people are serial fantastists, or serial self-publicists: it can be hard to tell the difference. Errol Morris' entertaining film 'Tabloid: Sex in Change' will seem familiar to anyone whose seen the (altogether more serious) film 'True Lies': in both cases, someone collaborates with a contemporary film-maker to tell "their story", even though the film-maker is able to simultaneously compile a large body of evidence to suggest that this story is utter tosh. The protagonists of both films could be considered con-artists, but if so, neither of them are exactly very good: in taking part in these films, they manage not to control the narrative, but to destroy themselves (although, if self-publicity is the aim, they do succeed, albeit in a peculiar fashion). Joyce McKinney's story (both the real one, and the one that she tells) is straightforwardly bizarre; while the linked tale of the behaviour of tabloid newspapers is predictably depressing, although one can't help but wonder whether or not Morris would have done better to let sleeping dogs lie (something McKinney didn't do when she had her dead pet cloned) rather than give the whole affair another publicising blast of the oxygen. It's hard to draw many conclusions from such a weird tale about the state of our society, or even about the interior workings of McKinney's mind; yet it's also impossible not to be entertained, albeit in a prurient way, by the extraordinary details of her tale.

scarletheels Some stories are so preposterous and delightfully astonishing that they have to be exposed to the masses. Such is the true tale of Joyce McKinney, the former beauty queen who hired a pilot to fly her and an accomplice, Keith May, to England to rescue her boyfriend, Kirk Anderson, from the clutches of the Mormon church. After bringing him to a rented cottage in Devon, where the refrigerator was stocked full of his favorite foods, she bound and seduced him. What ensued was three days of sex, food, and fun, to be forever known as "The Case of the Manacled Mormon". It sounds like every man's fantasy - a beautiful pageant princess waiting on you hand and foot, satisfying your every whim and fancy. However, Kirk, after reading about his own abduction in the newspaper, fled from his captors and alleged to the police a much different account of what happened. The all-American, charismatic blonde was arrested for kidnapping and raping the Mormon missionary and thrown in the slammer to await trial. The British tabloids had a field day with the bizarre incident.The Daily Express printed Joyce's side of the story while their rival, The Daily Mirror, delved deep into Joyce's past and uncovered lurid details of her moonlighting as an S&M model and dominatrix for hire, painting her as a manipulative Jezebel that cast a spell over all of the men she met. The accusation did ring true. She often referred to Keith May as her slave and she had another admirer willing to do anything she asked. Even Peter Tory, a reporter for The Daily Express, seems to have fallen for Joyce's delusion that she was simply a girl so profoundly in love with her boyfriend, she risked life and limb in order to save and deprogram him from a cult of polygamists.Unfortunately, Kirk Anderson declined to participate in Morris's documentary and Keith May passed away in 2004, but there is enough material to fill his absence, like Joyce's decision to travel to Seoul, South Korea to have her beloved rescue dog, Booger, cloned.The interviews with Joyce, Jackson Shaw (the pilot), Troy Williams (a former Mormon missionary), Peter Tory, Kent Gavin (photographer for The Daily Mirror), and Dr. Hong flow smoothly, with barely any interruption by Mr. Morris. The montage of animated newspaper clippings was a visual treat and the background music fit brilliantly, which normally goes unnoticed in a documentary. The star of the show is Joyce with her animated voice and emphasized gestures. She's a breed of crazy that is sometimes unsettling, sometimes funny, and always entertaining.