It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

What I can never understand is why an American is chosen to play the part of someone who had a pristine British accent and vice versa. (I know Hepburn was born in Belgium). This movie reminds me somewhat of the now legendary role Dick Van Dyke played (Bert) in Mary Poppins. His cockney accent was to say the least 'atrocious'.Although I must say that the British accent of Jennifer Love Hewitt was better than Van Dykes's it still left a lot to be desired.SPOILER BEGINS This movie charts 'part' of the life of Audrey Hepburn who was in my opinion one of the most beautiful women in the world. That is not to say that Love Hewitt is not stunningly attractive.The movie takes us from her very young age, through WW2 when she was taken to live in Holland where her parents thought she would be safe but of course it turned out that she was raised in German occupied Holland, up to the period when she was one of the most sought after stars in the movie world.I must say that I learned a lot about Audrey Hedpburn watching this movie. For example she actually helped the Dutch underground when she was in Holland and she witnessed the atrocities the Hitler Army was capable of.However, the movie did not go far enough and in my opinion the latter part of her life should have been covered also. She worked tirelessly for UNICEF for several years, right up to her relatively untimely death in 1993 of Appendiceal cancer. This was a two part mini-series and I feel that they could have made a three part series in order to cover her later life.There was only a brief written reference to this in the end credits.SPOILER ENDS I do like Jennifer Love Hewitt as an actress having first seen her in the bittiest of bit parts in Sister Act 2 and then in the popular TV series Ghost Whisperer.It is simply that I feel that she was very wrongly cast in the role of Audrey Hepburn because her English accent was simply not up to it.Had the part of Hepburn be played by someone else (a Brit) and had the whole story been told I feel that the movie would have been wonderful. Even if Jennifer had not tried to emulate an English accent and used her American accent I feel this would have been better.Love Hewitt was Producer & Co Executive Producer of Ghost Whisperer and she was also one of the Co Executive Producers of The Audrey Hepburn Story so I am wondering if that was the reason she played the title role.For the most part the remainder of the cast played their roles extremely well, especially Francis Fisher who played Audrey's mother Ella van Heemstra. She was nothing like the hateful woman Ruth Dewitt Bukater in Titanic.I also liked the way Eric McCormack played Mel Ferrer. He too was nothing like the despicable Ray Summers in Dead Like Me.All in all I feel that the Audrey Hepburn Story could have been a great deal better but nevertheless I will say it is still quite watchable.This mini-series was nominated for one award, the Golden Reel Award, for Best Sound Editing, which it did not win.

I believe this role should have been played from Audrey Tautou she looks like Audrey Hepburn , she is so sweet also . Same name,similar look and Audrey Tautou is an excellent actor. Anyway a biography film cannot replace the person Audrey Hepburn, a blank will always exist because these were the gold years of cinema and as the years were passed , cinema's quality gets poorer and poorer. Of course there are many great actors and Jeniffer is one of them perhaps she wasn't the best choice for this role but she is also giving us great films.We shouldn't be tough with the actors sometimes they are humans sometimes they are doing some bad choices in their career. Although anyone would like to give by acting life to a legend , it takes courage to do it and the result is unexpected always .

TV starlet Jennifer Love Hewitt as Audrey Hepburn is a casting fiasco. That an actress with small frame and fine facial features was necessary for the generation of TV spawn who have never seen her films like "Breakfast at Tiffany's" or "Roman Holiday," was the likely reason Love-Hewitt was selected for the role seems the only reasonable explanation. It certainly was never because of her staggering talent as the young woman extended her range from A to a and got to wear her mother's dresses simultaneously. This is cartoon pablum at best and worst. The excellent character actress, Frances Fisher as Audrey's elegant aristocratic mother wipes Hewitt off the page by just a restrained glance and her considerable talent. Eric McCormick as Mel Ferrar seems a tad too animated and beefy, but it is the remainder of the cast who seem to have only been cast because of their minimal resemblance to known actors such as Gregory Peck and William Holden who are truly forgettable with cause. Affected and lacking the grace of Ms. Hepburn, this made for TV drama is worthy of a Rassie award for worst of the worst. It is painful to see the memory of Ms. Hepburn reduced to farce. Stick to her films and skip the made-for-TV insult.

I am one of the biggest Audrey Hepburn fans out there and this movie made me literally cry.Jennifer Love Hewitt was horrible. Her accent in the movie was NO where near Audrey's. Her laugh and personality didn't capture anything. Plus, not only was Hewitt horrible, but the plot was too. A lot of the events in the movie did NOT happen in Audrey's real life. Sean Hepburn-Ferrer, Audrey's son said he watched this movie and was very disappointed. Well if i was her son, i would be too! When people say someone else should have played Hepburn, like Natalie Portman, or Winona Ryder, that's also ridiculous. NO ONE in Hollywood history could EVER be Audrey Hepburn. She was graceful, classy, had an amazing sense of style and something that can't be described.What a disappointment.