Bonnie & Clyde - Wie es wirklich war

Bonnie and Clyde's "True Story" has never been put on film, and there are dramatic variations in the accounts that have been published in book form.

While it is no easier to overlook 1990's hairstyles and dresses on 1930's characters in this movie than it was to overlook 1960's hairstyles on them in the 1967 movie "Bonnie & Clyde" (and I'll never understand WHY, it's not like one can't easily determine appropriate clothing and hairstyles for the 1930's, a decade well captured on film at the time!), the makers of this TV drama did at least get actors who were closer to the correct age. Bonnie and Clyde were both quite young, only in their early twenties when they met their death. These actors are, as usual, the wrong physical type, much too tall, as both Bonnie and Clyde were inordinately short, thin, small boned, little people.

The "truth" in the title is played fast and loose here. While they did include the fact that Bonnie was badly burned in a car accident, they were incorrect in depicting her complete recovery, she walked with a limp from that point on. The manner in which Buck and Blanche joined Bonnie and Clyde is inaccurately depicted in this film, and again the persons of W. D. Jones and Henry Methvin are combined into one character for no discernible reason (if your audience can't keep track of six characters, they can't keep track of five either). It would be far more interesting to depict the real story, W.D. apprehended and squealing like a stuck pig on Clyde, as Clyde had instructed him to do in the event of his capture.

Native Texan Betty Buckley is a pleasure to watch, as always, and most of the other actors do pretty well with the material they are given, but the viewer should know that this "true story" of Bonnie and Clyde is no more true to actual events than any of the previous poorly handled efforts.

this was the best bonnie and clyde movie i have seen. it has more accurate accounts of what happened and while it doesnt glorify their crimes it casts the pair in a normal light. i give this movie a 10. it has great actors,realistic scenes and excellent writers.

I realize a lot of stories embellish fact from fiction but this was way way off. Example, When the Police find pictures of Bonnie and Clyde after a raid, there's a picture of Bonnie with a Rose in her mouth, Sheriff Ted Hinton has the photo retouched to make it look like she's smoking a Cigar, when in reality she was posing with a Cigar as a Joke. Who didn't already know that?

Saw it on pay-channel decades ago, only vaguely remember. The 7 is given because I do remember having liked it when I saw it back then. Been trying to find it on DVD, but my search was hindered, kept bumping against that History Channel documentary of (almost) the same name. That problem here has now been resolved after I brought it to IMDb's attention. Unfortunately, the movie itself remains something I cannot find through a local importer. And there isn't even a trailer to download. All that I really remember, is what vultures the onlookers became when Bonnie's dead body was at their disposal.

Rrsearch on those two real-life characters reveal that they were two totally unlikely people to have earned such fame. What total losers grabbed the public's imagination, fueled by a desire simply to sell newspapers!

This is one of those movies that you happen across when you're channel surfing on a Saturday afternoon, and you get drawn into it and end up watching the whole thing. I thought that it was well acted and it really made me feel for the characters. Though it's a bit slow moving, focusing more on the relationships between Bonnie and Clyde and their family members, it never got boring. We don't really see too much of all the robberies that they were so legendary for, and instead most of the shootouts take place when they're ambushed by the police. I thought Tracey Needham, who played Bonnie, really did a good job with her character. Going from a nice country girl to a cold-blooded killer is a challenging thing to portray, and I enjoyed the subtlety she brought to the role.

Overall, an above average effort, especially considering it was a made for TV movie.