Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It (2021)

• Year: 2021
• Released: 18 Jun 2021
• Country: United States
• Adwords: 3 wins & 7 nominations
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10741846/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/rita_moreno_just_a_girl_who_decided_to_go_for_it
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/rita-moreno-just-a-girl-who-decided-to-go-for-it
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English, Spanish
• MPA Rating: PG-13
• Genre: Documentary, Biography
• Runtime: 90 min
• Writer: N/A
• Director: Mariem Pérez Riera
• Cast: Rita Moreno, Justina Machado, Norman Lear
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	7.7/10
	77/100
	96% – Critics
	93% – Audience

Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It Storyline

Largely directly through current day interviews with the subject at age eighty-seven, a profile of Rita Moreno is presented, she who in many respects outwardly epitomizes the American dream in being a handful of EGOTs (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony winner) and thus successful, and achieving that dream as a somewhat visible “immigrant” to the US (not technically so in being a Puerto Rican, which is part of the US) from humble beginnings. She dispels many of those views in a discussion of her career and her life. Beyond the want to be a movie star and being a proverbial triple threat (actor, singer, dancer) in the entertainment business, she talks about the difficulties she faced: being subjected to the proverbial casting couch and being sexually assaulted above and beyond by those in authority; being typecast in pretty, immigrant roles which required her solely to look beautiful and speak in nondescript accents, even after her Oscar win; the broadening of her career to do the work that was of interest as opposed to that may have been high profile; and the resulting view of her own non-self-worth in how she was viewed especially as a Latina in the US. She further discusses how that view of herself led to a Catch-22 in relationships, getting into them in her own negative view of herself, and they in turn exacerbating that view. Arguably the two most high profile are the long term abusive one with Marlon Brando, and the forty-five year marriage to Leonard Gordon until his death. Her activism is also discussed which is an outcome of her life, it largely in areas of women and minority rights.—Huggo

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Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It Movie Reviews

Absolutely tear-jerking, hysterical, educational and motivational – Love it!

Rita Moreno: Just A Girl Who Decided To Go For It is the ultimate in-depth documentary about one of Hollywood’s most trailblazing actors. This film is the absolute tear-jerking, hysterical, educational experience of the year. By the movie’s end, you just want to go for it too.

Rita Moreno: Just A Girl Who Decided To Go For It recounts the life story of critically acclaimed actress Rita Moreno. Rita, who is best known for her roles of Anita in West Side Story and Carmela in The Electric Company, stars in the documentary, along with stars like Whoopie Goldberg, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Eva Longoria and more. The film features clips from a large variety of Rita’s films throughout her career as well as from award shows, and photographs and footage from her personal life, including interviews with her friends and family.

This film shines a light on how incredible Rita is, and how human as she leads the way for Puerto Ricans and all Hispanics in the 1960s, stands up for women’s rights and fights to be able to choose which roles she plays. She deals with being type-cast as an island or Hispanic character, and decides and turns down roles that would shove her into a tiny box. We see the good, the bad, and the ugly side of Rita’s life, not just grazing at the surface. It shows how Rita struggled with hating her Hispanic roots, because it limited her as an actress. She tells how she was sexually abused, was forced into an abortion by her then-boyfriend Marlon Brando, and tried to commit suicide. The film shows exactly why Rita is such a beloved actress and person. Despite all she’s been through, she never gives up and learned to value the woman she is. Rita grows into her own person throughout the movie, telling how everything that put her down at the time just made her stronger.

The moral of the film is to stay strong and keep fighting. Rita is not eighty-nine years old and one of 15 EGOT winners (acronym for the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Awards), just because she gave up. Being a Puerto Rican actress in New York and trying to find your way in the world wasn’t as easy as Moreno makes it look. She has maintained her humbleness and blossomed into a modern woman who fights for human rights and looks great while doing it.

I give Rita Moreno: Just A Girl Who Decided To Go For It 5 out of 5 stars and recommend it for ages 13 to 18, plus adults. It is available in theaters June 18, 2021. By Heather S., KIDS FIRST!

I loved her before this

I have always thought Me. Moreno was one of the most beautiful, talented and versatile performers alive. I thought she was a trailblazer whose talent couldn’t be ignored.

Now I see her as a complaining negative person who has nothing good to say about anyone, including her husband. She should be celebrating her staying power, her accolades and her own part in making the movie industry more diverse. Things have changed for the better. Why not say something good about that?

Then diatribes by performers complaining they aren’t stars. They aren’t Jimmy Smits either. Hollywood is about one thing: MONEY AND MARKETABILITY. Not everyone gets to be a star and that is for a multitude of reasons. You know, blonde actresses of the era didn’t fare so well either.

Rita slid down a few notches in my estimation with this documentary

The original West Side Story was a favorite of mine – and still is – but this documentary told me too much about Rita Moreno – and not in a good way. I lost respect and admiration for her in the face of her advanced egotism coupled with her continuous need to speak ill of others and play the victim. The documentary’s format of focusing the camera straight-on at her talking endlessly doesn’t help matters, much less involve the audience in a meaningful way.

Ms. Moreno is unceasingly self-involved and manages to say something gratuitously negative about virtually every important man in her life. She had an eight year long love affair with Brando, then accused him of ‘forcing’ her to have an abortion and continues to portray herself throughout as a helpless victim – of both him and the Hollywood system. Really? You can’t have it both ways – winner of the EGOT yet a hapless, naive victim.

Perhaps even more egregious and difficult to watch was her unabashed defilement of her late husband, Lenny. Ms. Moreno was married for 35 years to a man who loved her passionately and was utterly devoted to her and her career by any measure (or so it appears) – yet in the documentary, she claims (unprompted) that she didn’t love him and was never happy because he was controlling. Once again, she claims status as a victim – for 35 years? Shameful to say about someone who is no longer here and who did everything possible to help her career (by her own admission).

It seems that she finds it necessary to tear down any man who was important and contributed to her life, leaving herself as the sole responsible person for whatever success she had.

All in all, this film was hardly a documentary but rather a too-long paean to an attention-crazed egotist who seems to have little empathy and no regard for others’ feelings – nor respect for the dead.