Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

Instant Favorite.

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

I kept catching this film at different parts of the movie via channel surfing, and just saw this today from the beginning. This is more than a doc on the Beatles, this is an example of honor and dignity. What a treasure Freda is...and it is refreshing to see a portrayal about honesty, honor and what it means to be a decent person.

As a lifelong Beatles fan, it was both interesting and enjoyable to learn the story of the Beatles secretary and fan club organiser Freda Kelly, who amazingly, we learn got the job at age only 17.A Liverpudlian like the group she started as a fan, regularly attending the group's Cavern gigs, thus falling into the orbit of not only the group, but their manager Brian Epstein who offered her the job a million Beatles fan would have craved. This simple, uncomplicated documentary tells her insider story. Don't expect any major revelations, now, as then Freda is the soul of discretion, even when hinting that she went out with one of the boys, but there are plenty of nice insights into the gathering maelstrom of their massive success and her special relationship not only with John Paul George and Ringo but also their families.Related in the form of interconnected interviews with her, her daughter and other Liverpool contemporaries, interspersed with archive footage and a contemporary soundtrack mixing Beatles tracks with original versions of some of the band's early cover version, she comes across as honest, faithful, discreet, hard-working and loyal. She seems to have benefited not a whit financially from the experience, although I bet her attic full of mementos is worth a few bob.Of course it would have been nice if both of the surviving Beatlee, Paul or Ringo, had actively contributed to the story, but Starr does at least pay her a glowing tribute over the end credits.After the fan club disbanded in 1972, with Paul pointedly not wanting to be referred to as a Beatle anymore, she quietly resigned her position in a meeting attended by Ringo and George. Of the stories she tells, George seems to be the friendliest.A pleasant low-key documentary then, sure to be of interest to Beatles fans around the world.

Liverpool resident Freda Kelly had a job that any girl in the '60s would have loved to have: she was president of the Beatles' fan club. The documentary "Good Ol' Freda" features an interview with her. In addition to her memories of getting to work with the Fab Four, there's the ubiquitous music, some Beatles and some non-Beatles. This combo of interviews and music adds up to a great look at an era that will almost certainly not have an equivalent in our lifetimes, even though I was born long after it was over. This is one fine documentary. Of course, anything relating to the music of that era reminds us what real music is. I totally recommend this movie!

GOOD OL' FREDA (2013) ***1/2 Sweet valentine to The Fab Four in Ryan White's pedestrian yet warm-hearted documentary about The Beatles' secretary Freda Kelly's ascent from teenage office drone to fan club organizer ultimately to engaging friend who divulges little insight to the cult of celebrity yet manages to bring a smile to those who crave any and all details about the rock and roll legends, no matter how trivial. Her lifelong career (well for 11 years at any rate) proves that old school devotion pays off in more ways than fame and fortune: a lifetime of love and friendship; how rare indeed and again, all you need is love. Resplendent in awesome archival footage and gorgeous black and white candids of the rockers with their female compadre that will have you wanting to go back and time and (re)live it again. Fab!