Lucybespro It is a performances centric movie

ChanBot i must have seen a different film!!

CommentsXp Best movie ever!

Bea Swanson This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

TheLittleSongbird I admit it, I am not a fan of confrontational shows. Out of all the confrontational shows, Ricki Lake is the worst, worse than Maury and Jerry Springer put together. Now I have nothing personal against Ricki herself, she is likable, but she deserves better. One major problem are the guests, some of them are absolutely horrible and if I had a choice between meeting them in person and being sick in the toilet I'd know which one I'd choose. Secondly, and this applies to pretty much all the talk shows, the audience is so annoying, they are so ungratifying and prejudge the guests without hearing their side of the story. Yes, some get to voice their side, but seriously do you think any of the guests are going to take on board anything anybody other than Ricki says? Thirdly, it feels like the same thing talked about over and over, it gets really boring. I don't like the music either, too generic and the episodes are really pedestrian in pace. Overall, I hate it, not Ricki herself but the show. 1/10 Bethany Cox

imasniperbang-1 The 1990's begun to have day time talk shows sprout up left and right. Every network had one, and they all lacked one thing Originality. Ricky Lake was just another show to entertain the obese trailer park mother with a Marlboro cigarette hanging out of her mouth while breast feeding one of her dozens of toothless, illiterate children. The English language and other cornerstones of mankind where ruined by this shows existence. Titltes ranging from Girl you a Pigeon Head and so on. How could anyone want to watch this pure and utter garbage? Has our society really became nothing more than a bunch of hill billy's and dead beat fathers? The people who appear on this show were Trash. The people who watched this show were Trash. Anyone that wishes to see this show re aired or put onto DVD is TRASH. People wonder why Americans are becoming huge piles of lard and too fat to even get jobs, its having shows like this tell them Its OK to be 500lbs overweight, and have 12 year old girls act like prostitutes. Having such trash on TV has ruined morals.

Blooeyz2001 Ricki Lake started out as an actress parlaying her obesity into a novelty. The fat novelty could only last so long in films & TV fare. So she lost some weight, but still acting jobs were scarce. So she decided to become a hip talk show host. The concept was fresh & innovative in 1993. "Ricki" even spawned the rip-off "The Tempestt Bledsoe Show". This "hip" show stayed on the air way past it's expiration date. The show got stale quickly. One annoying aspect towards the end was the lie detector dynamic. Ricki really beat this one into the ground like a dead horse. It was like watching the same exact show daily. Dolts take a lie detector test & their partners find out whether they cheated or not. UGH! Another major problem with this show was Ricki Lake herself. The woman is as fake & plastic as the day is long. You'd never know she was an "actress" by watching this slop. The idiotic faces she'd make to show "concern", "understanding", etc. were appalling, false, & calculated. She'd also shed a crocodile tear or two, & laughed that phony laugh. She was also a puppet-head. Any fool could have been doing her job, because 90% of the time she was reading cue cards. Thank goodness this trash finally ended up in the TV dumpster in 2004! (If you'd like to see my thoughts duplicated, practically word for word with some extra gibberish thrown in, read what Raysond had to say).

rooboy84 Well, it is. No interesting story's. Although Springer is bad, it still makes you laugh, where as this show dosen't amuse in any way whatsoever. It's rolled and rolled down the hill since it's first year. And i've seen the guests re-used, too.