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I'll go out on a short limb here and say I'm pretty sure Renee Zellweger will at least be nominated for an Oscar for her lead role of Judy Garland, In "Judy". I saw the movie tonight on opening day and Zellweger's performance - singing and acting - is excellent. She seems to inhabit her character of Garland; actually doing her own singing which sounds very like Garland's voice and mannerisms. The movie is a competent look at the last year or so of Garland's life, with flashbacks to a teenage Garland. The movie is based on the play, "End of the Rainbow", by Peter Quilter. By taking a relatively short period of her life - the end, spent in London on a comeback attempt - director Rupert Goold is able to hone on the sadness of Garland's life. By this time, she is having trouble earning enough money to provide for her two young children, Lorna and Joseph, and they go to live in Los Angeles with their father, Sid Luft. Judy goes off to London, to a proposed five week singing stand at the "Talk of the Town", a musical venue. The flashbacks serve to show how the teenage Judy was treated, with up and down drugs to work at MGM. All the actors in the movie were good in their parts, but Renee Zellweger shone as Judy. Alternately sad, hopeful, and even happy when she's with her children, Zellweger "becomes" Judy Garland. As with any biopic, the viewer just has to trust that the story on the screen is close to the real story. The movie at almost two full hours is long, but certainly enjoyable. And I'm sure we'll see Renee Zellweger at the Oscars on February 9, 2020.