News about a Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds HBO documentary

Culture&Arts Nancy Frank
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Their fans might be able to see them together one more time in the near future. The famous stage and film starlets, who sadly past away one day distance from each other will be the topic of a brand new HBO documentary, “Bright Lights”: starring Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher. First announcement saw the film debut in March, but further pushbacks have the movie now expected to air in the first half of 2017, according to the TV station USA Today.

“Bright Lights”, which was described by its makers as “an intimate portrait of Hollywood royalty,” will detail their life using interviews, photos, footage and homemade videos, such as a young 15 year old Carrie Fisher doing a rendition of “Bridge Over Troubled Water” written by the one who 10 years later would briefly be her husband, Paul Simon.

They are followed at fan events by the creators, filmmakers Alexis Bloom and Fisher Stevens, to Debbie’s show in Las Vegas and their homes in Beverly Hills. It ends with Debbie Reynolds preparing to receive her 2015 Screen Guild Life Achievement Award presented to her on the stage by Carrie.

David Rooney of Hollywood Reporter says in his review of the film that “Reynolds physical frailty puts her attendance at the ceremony in doubt. The resulting anxiety of Fisher, who suffers from bipolar disorder, spirals into a manic episode, which is quite emotional to witness.”

“It’s a love story,” HBO Documentary Films president Sheila Nevins told Variety. “The film is about both of them trying to stand upright, both having their frailties — age on the one hand and mental illness on the other. It’s a love story about a mother and daughter — they happen to be Carrie and Debbie.”