First Hit: This was a very interesting story about a woman convicted for kidnapping and sexually assaulting the love of her life.
Joyce McKinney, formally a Wyoming beauty pageant winner, claims she was a successful model who fell in love with Kirk Anderson a Mormon boy. She believes they were in love and a budding relationship was being created when all of a sudden he disappeared.
Joyce vowed to find her man therefore she went to Los Angeles to make money, hire a detective and locate her man. The audience listens to interviews of Joyce as she tells a tale which weaves in and out of intrigue, possible BS, and adventure story.
In brief, she finds her Kirk in England on a Mormon mission, gets him away from the church, they have a wild mad sex week, while visiting London he gets back with the Mormons, she gets captured, goes on trial and is found guilty. She escapes England, slips into the US through Canada and spends the rest of her life always loving her Kirk but then also getting back into the headlines by having her beloved dog cloned.
The English tabloids had a field day with this story and her capture, along with how she mesmerized the English Courts. As the story unfolds there are moments where I felt like Joyce was an innocent. Then as others are interviewed questions arise: Was Joyce this innocent girl in love? Was Kirk really in love with her? How did she make all the money she spent to find Kirk? Was the Church of Latter Day Saints involved at deeper levels?
My thoughts see-sawed back and forth, first buying her story then thinking she is just a great storyteller with a screw loose with a penchant for stretching the truth. It would have been great if Kirk would have been one of the people interviewed. Errol Morris directed this film with the right amount of old TV clips, interviews and questionability.
Overall: It was interesting worth it to hear Joyce tell her story.