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7.0 Magic Beyond Words: The JK Rowling Story
Television, Documentary
Magic Beyond Words: The J.K. Rowling Story dramatizes the British author s (Poppy Montgomery, Without a Trace) struggle to bring the beloved wizard fantasy of Harry Potter to life as a single mother on welfare and become one of the world s wealthiest women, with more than 400 million copies of her visionary books sold across the globe resulting in a billion-dollar film franchise. The film is an inspiring look at a woman s rise to become one of the most influential writers ever from her humble beginnings as an imaginative young girl and awkward teenager to the devastating loss of her mother and the genesis of the Harry Potter phenomenon in her early twenties. The rags-to-riches tale also follows Rowling s tumultuous first marriage, becoming a mother, her divorce, and the dark days of living on government assistance while publisher after publisher passed on her first novel...before it became an international best-seller and solidified Rowling s rightful place in literary and cultural history.
Rating
NR
Director
Paul A. Kaufman
Studio
Commotion Pictures
Writer
Jeffrey Berman, Tony Caballero
  • Absolutely inspirational and completely amazing. I love the back story in how JK Rowling came up for some of the ideas in the Harry Potter Books
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  • Seriously a really awesome movie! Met beyond my expectations. I loved every bit of it.
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  • Magic Beyond Words: The J.K. Rowling Story is an interesting dramatization on the life of author J.K. Rowling that's worth a watch to witness the efforts and conflicts she faced, all leading up to the creation of the Harry Potter saga
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  • A good depiction of her story, and where she had gotten the ideas for Harry Potter from. A good nod to the writer. Not a regular rise to fame story
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  • Truly magical and inspirational, if you love Harry Potter then you should watch this lovely story.
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  • I don't know enough about JK Rowling to know how much of this movie is true, but considering it's not trying to hide the fact that it's unauthorized, I really didn't care about that. I enjoyed the performances and found it to be a much better film than the reviews it's gotten. You shouldn't always expect the worst of something just because it comes from Lifetime.
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  • While I'm not sure how accurate it is, this is a well written "dramumentary", with great acting performances by the entire cast. I loved it, I can really relate to her story & found it very inspiring!
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  • En comparación con otros biopicks, este es uno sencillo en todo el sentido de la palabra; a pesar de todo, resulta ser un trabajo agradable gracias a las ligeras chispas de ingenio y brillantez que el director sabe como aplicar en los momentos oportunos. Recomendada a todos los fans de las obras literarias de Rowling, y para todos aquellos que quisieran ser escritores algún día.
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  • Awesome dramatic documentary movie loved it.
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  • While I'd say the film itself is a 2.5 at most, for fans of Harry Potter there's at least another star in there so I split the difference. Using some known facts (they made a point about putting dates when everything is happening) about Rowling and combining them with some fictional dialogue and events that relate back to the Harry Potter series, the filmmakers have put together something that may truly entertain fans of the series. As long as viewers can figure out fact from fiction and not get too wrapped up in the facts and any mistakes (fans can get pretty catty about that stuff) Magic Beyond Words should prove to be a better than normal low budget biopic that manages to entertain and inform at the same time.
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  • An excellent biopic providing a great insight into perhaps the greatest author of our era. Very interesting the way in which she became one of the richest people in Britain. I enjoyed Poppy Montgomery in this role.
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  • I knew her story cause I'm a great fan of her and Harry Potter of course!But I liked watching it as a movie!A great woman,with a great personality and a great talent!I love her and thank her very much!
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  • Magic Beyond Words: The JK Rowling Story es uno de los mejores biopics jamás realizados. Cargado de emoción, drama y sobre todas las cosas: Magia. Es una pieza magistral realizada de la manera más sublime posible y de igual forma interpretada, a la altura que se merece J.K Rowling la persona que invento todo un mundo. Por si no fuera poco, este Documental explora una parte mucho más personal de Jo. Aunque claro, con algunos detalles suprimidos.Básicamente la lucha, la esencia, ingenio, poder e influencia que tiene Rowling quedo plasmado con esta bella obra. Por más que lo intente no puedo ser más objetivo con mi opinión respecto a esta ya que sin duda esta una producción que todo fan (incluyà (C)ndome) de la saga de Harry Potter debe ver.
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  • La actuacion de Montgomery me impresiono. Sin duda alguna es una biopic incompleta pero es rescatable en ciertos casos.
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  • I am impressed with her storybest scene: the full JK Rowling story
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