Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds
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| Music by | Will Bates |
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| Distributed by | HBO |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds (on-screen title is simply Bright Lights) is a 2016 documentary about the relationship between entertainer Debbie Reynolds (in her final film appearance) and her daughter, actress and writer Carrie Fisher.[1] Following a premiere at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, the film was broadcast January 7, 2017 on HBO.[2][3]
Alexis Bloom and Fisher Stevens directed the film, while Brett Ratner and Sheila Nevins served as executive producers on the film under their RatPac Documentary Films and HBO Documentary Films banner.[4] According to USA Today the film is "an intimate portrait of Hollywood royalty ... [it] loosely chronicles their lives through interviews, photos, footage and vintage home movies... It culminates in a moving scene, just as Reynolds is preparing to receive the 2015 Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award, which Fisher presented to her mother."[5]
Release
The film had its world premiere at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival on May 14, 2016.[6] It was also screened at the Telluride Film Festival on September 3, 2016, and at the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival on October 14, 2016.[7] It went on to screen at the New York Film Festival on October 10, 2016[8][9] and the AFI Fest on November 13, 2016.[10]
The deaths of both stars in December 2016 prompted changes to the HBO air date, initially scheduled for March 2017.[11][12] Fisher went into cardiac arrest on December 23 and succumbed four days later on December 27, while Reynolds had a severe stroke and died the following day, December 28.[13] HBO subsequently moved the broadcast to January 7, 2017.[14]
