Being the Ricardos

Being the Ricardos

Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz face a crisis that could end their careers and another that could end their marriage.

  • Released: 2021-12-10
  • Runtime: 132 minutes
  • Genre: Drama, History
  • Stars: Nicole Kidman, Javier Bardem, J.K. Simmons, Jake Lacy, Nina Arianda, Alia Shawkat, Linda Lavin, Clark Gregg, Tony Hale, Robert Pine, Ronny Cox, Nelson Franklin, Christopher Denham, John Rubinstein, Jonah Platt, Matt Cook, Jamie Miller, Pamela Mitchell, Renee Pezzotta, Ron Ostrow, Breanna Wing, Kate Ellie Fitzgerald, John Funk, Dana Lyn Baron, Dan Sachoff, Jenya Chaplin, John F. Carpenter, Gail Rastorfer, Shiree Nelson, Lori Dorfman, Jeremiah Ripley, Angela Leib, Evie Nicholson, Louis Delavenne, Jeff Holman, Brian Howe, Ron Perkins, Baize Buzan, Joshua Bednarsky, Max Silvestri, Chris Wolfe, Caroline Anderson, Russ Burd, Guido Cocomello, David Saenz, Stephanie Lesh-Farrell, Lawrence Novikoff, Jack Benza, Peter Onorati, Rick Batalla, Melinda Sullivan, Christian Roberts, Gus Lynch, Allan Wayne Anderson, David Jonathan Fine, Val Chmerkovskiy, Asiel Hardison, Reina Hidalgo, Jenna Johnson, Will Loftis, Noelle Marsh, Leo Moctezuma, Nayara Núñez, Britt Stewart, Eddie Torres Jr., James Patrick Duffy, Emily Marsh, Cece Camps, Daniel Armella, Molly Meyer, Jenna Johnson, Christian Roberts
  • Director: Aaron Sorkin
 Comments
  • SnoopyStyle - 4 June 2024
    not the TV Lucy
    Lucille Ball (Nicole Kidman) and Desi Arnaz (Javier Bardem) are television royalty. Rumor spreads of her being a communist. It's the start of their longest week. Aaron Sorkin is the writer and director.

    I love the snappy Aaron Sorkin dialogue. It fits a brilliant mind like Lucille Ball. I love the dissecting of the comedic scenes. Here's the problem. It's not funny and it's not meant to be funny. When they actually perform the scenes, none of that is funny. Comedy is serious business and this movie shows that. I dislike redoing the classic grape stomping scene and I really hate the fake laughing audiences. My only solution would be using the real footage although there are probably rights issues. The movie's biggest hurdle is that this isn't the Lucy that people watched on TV. Keep that in mind when starting.
  • ScriptiSandy - 4 August 2023
    Nicole Kidman not the Right Choice
    It wasn't the story I was expecting and I was also disappointed to see the tense relationship between Lucy and Vivian Vance. But what drove me crazy was Nicole Kidman's lips - why on earth wouldn't the makeup artist have over painted her lips in the classic Lucy style. Such a small but very important detail that kept me from being lost in the story. And she just wasn't the right actress to play this part, her face lacks the diversity of expressions that Lucy was so well known for (probably the fault of Botox) and I just couldn't get past that and her lips. I wanted to love this but really didn't.