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Watch: Being the Ricardos 2021 123movies, Full Movie Online – In 1939, Lucy Ball is contracted to RKO Pictures. She gets small parts in big studio productions, but featured mainly in low budget films. She meets one of the film’s cast, the charismatic 22-year-old Cuban singer Desi Arnaz and the two fall for each other instantaneously. Months after filming, they marry and buy a home in Hollywood. Desi has a successful stint fronting the Desi Arnaz Orchestra that tours around the country, while Lucy continues her film career with little success. In 1948, she is cast in the radio show “My Favorite Husband”, which becomes a success. The show draws interest from CBS and Philip Morris, but Ball only agrees if Desi plays her on screen husband. By 1953, the show is renamed “I Love Lucy” and becomes a smash hit with nearly 60 million viewers each week. On the night of the live filming, a newspaper article deems Lucy a Communist. Lucy admits but Desi insists not to tell the truth. They are now facing a crisis that could end their careers and their marriage..
Plot: Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz face a crisis that could end their careers and another that could end their marriage.
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Ratings:

	6.5/10 Votes: 41,608
	68% | RottenTomatoes
	60/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 489 Popularity: 11.183 | TMDB

Reviews:

There are two lines of dialogue in Being the Ricardos that really caught my attention. One is “I literally said that 30 seconds ago,” and the other is “It takes fewer words to say that than the truth.” This film feels like a lot of the former when it should be more of the latter.

Why does a movie called Being the Ricardos spends so much time on Ethel/Vivian Vance (Nina Arianda) and Fred/William Frawley (J.K. Simmons), whom nobody cared about 70 years ago, and no one cares about today?

Speaking of redundant characters, writer/director Aaron Sorkin aims to give the film a documentary feel with asides set in the present day in which people involved with the production of I Love Lucy talk about it — kind of like in Reds, except that Reds worked because the individuals interviewed were who they were supposed to be, and not actors playing aged versions of people who are already played by other, younger actors in the main narrative.

These parentheses do little but repeat things we have just seen, or are about to see, dramatized in the scene immediately before or after (either show or tell — preferably show —, but not both); they have no value other than as filler, and filler is exactly the last thing a two-hour-plus movie needs.

Ostensibly, the plot revolves around a typical week on I Love Lucy’s set, including rehearsals, filming, etc. — and indeed a fly-on-the-wall behind-the-scenes approach to the inner workings of one of the most influential TV shows history should be able to generate more than enough interest on its own.

Sorkin, however, brings up momentous events only to gloss them over. For example, Lucille Ball (an unrecognizable Nicole Kidman) and Desi Arnaz (Javier Bardem in the perfect role for his routine massacre of the English language) are having a second child (although their firstborn is so irrelevant to Sorkin that she is named a couple of times and seen only once), and they both decide that Lucy and Ricky will have a kid too; this aspect is mentioned, and even discussed, but never really addressed, and the reason for this omission is obvious: since, as I already pointed out, the central section of the film takes place over the course of a week (with flashbacks that become an unnecessary distraction), her pregnancy never gets a chance to be truly incorporated into the plot.

Another incident that Sorkin touches on but doesn’t even begin to explore is when Ball was accused of being a communist. This is treated as no more than a minor annoyance, but surely it should have affected her career much more than the film lets on —and if it didn’t, what was it that made Ball so special that this didn’t even qualify as a bump in the road?

All things considered, Being the Ricardos devotes way too much time to extracurricular activities. Sacrificing length for depth might have turned this 125-minute behemoth into a much more manageable 90-minute romp.

I vaguely recall watching “I Love Lucy” – or perhaps I just recall that memorable theme tune, but I have to say I knew nothing at all about the “Desilu” couple before watching this. As ever, it has Sorkin’s trademark dialogue – quickly paced, pithy at times; but somehow the performances just didn’t catch fire. Kidman is a very versatile actress, she can turn her hand to just abut anything – but for this to have worked better, she would have needed a more convincing foil. Javier Bardem just isn’t him. Their lively relationship is suggested rather than demonstrated and much of what made them the US household names they were is, again, just taken for granted. Their domestic status as super-stars was not replicated globally, and yet little time is spent trying to explain to those less familiar just who they were and why they were so popular. JK Simmons is effective as their co-star “Bill Frawley” and all told it is a watchable biopic, but for me it looked more like a labour of love for an auteur who was maybe just a bit too close to the subject matter, and who made assumptions that the rest of us would be also. It looks great, has a ping at the Communist witch-hunt apparatus in place at the time, but is all just to shallow for me. I bet there is a proper, deep-drama, to be made about this pair, though – just not this film.

Great dialogue in a very bland film
I’m a huge Aaron Sorkin fan, however ‘Being the Ricardos’ feels like a film made specifically for people in the industry to enjoy. When filmmakers do that it is typically because they are chasing awards. Sorkin’s legacy doesn’t need more awards, it needs to keep making memorable films. There’s very little that is memorable about ‘Being the Ricardos’.

As with every Sorkin film the dialogue is exquisite. In fact it really is what keeps this film from being a total disaster. Even when nothing interesting is being talked about (which is often in this film) he stills finds a way of making it come across in an intriguing way. Nicole Kidman, Javier Bardem and J. K. Simmons have all been nominated for Academy Awards for this film and basically for no other reason than the great lines they are given to deliver.

‘Being the Ricardos’ isn’t necessarily a bad film. It’s just not one that is going to stick with anyone for long after watching it. There’s enough charm and charisma in the cast to keep it afloat, but this one will be gone from my mind 24 hours from now. 6/10.

“It might have been Lucy in ‘All About Eve’…and she would have blown the doors off the place!”
As TV’s “I Love Lucy” reaches 20 million households a week in the US in the early 1950s, it’s star, Lucille Ball, is fighting Communist affiliation rumors started by columnist Walter Winchell; she’s also fighting with husband and co-star Desi Arnaz about his lack of marital attention and is about to reveal to the television audience that both she and her TV-counterpart, Lucy Ricardo, are “expecting”. Although this handsomely-produced portrait of the legendary actress is an entertaining one, there are a myriad of timeline issues and anachronisms within the film which “I Love Lucy” purists are bound to be troubled by. There’s also a hurdle in buying Javier Bardem as Desi Arnaz (Bardem has Desi’s Cuban-accented voice–and his flirtatious charms–down, but he’s too old for the role). Kidman fares better as Lucy, proving her naysayers wrong and giving a wry, tough, courageous performance. Lucy’s off-camera relationship with Vivian Vance (played by Nina Arianda) is curiously edgy despite reports throughout the years these two were the best of friends; meanwhile, codger William Frawley (J. K. Simmons) is shown to be irascible yet cogent and sharp in place of the heavy drinker Arnaz went out on a limb to have cast. I didn’t care for the documentary-like framing device of the show’s creators discussing the series in the present day (there’s enough flashbacks and flash-forwards happening here); however, when writer-director Aaron Sorkin gets down to business, he delivers some terrifically tasty behind-the-scenes action. **1/2 from ****

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr 11 min (131 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Biography, Drama
Director Aaron Sorkin
Writer Aaron Sorkin
Actors Nicole Kidman, Javier Bardem, J.K. Simmons
Country United States
Awards Nominated for 3 Oscars. 12 wins & 58 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 2.39 : 1
Camera Red Ranger Helium Monochrome, Arri Rental Prime DNA Lenses, Red Ranger Monstro, Arri Rental Prime DNA Lenses
Laboratory Light Iron, Los Angeles (CA), USA (color) (dailies) (digital intermediate)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format Redcode RAW
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (4K) (master format), Redcode RAW (8K) (source format)
Printed Film Format DCP Digital Cinema Package, Video (UHD)