Tabloid Page #4

Synopsis: Tabloid stories centered on the activities of Joyce McKinney, a former beauty queen with a self-reported IQ of 168, over her life are presented. Beyond her beauty pageant days, McKinney first hit the tabloid pages in Britain in what was largely coined "The Case of the Manacled Mormon". As reported by McKinney in interviews, she, a southern Christian originally from North Carolina, got involved with a group of Mormons in her pursuit of true love, without knowing they were Mormons or anything about Mormonism. She fell in love with one of those Mormons, Kirk Anderson, the two who were to be married. After he disappeared without saying anything to her, she, with the help of a private investigator and some male friends and new acquaintances, tracked him down in England where he was being brainwashed by Mormon elders, that brainwashing which included the notion of sex with and marriage to her, a non-Mormon, as taboo. He left with her voluntarily, she who took him away to a secluded cottage t
Director(s): Errol Morris
Production: IFC Films
  4 wins & 8 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.1
Metacritic:
74
Rotten Tomatoes:
92%
R
Year:
2010
87 min
$680,468
Website
174 Views


Didn't stay the night.

No.

No.

Keith was with her, and so...

that was three people there.

That's not for me.

I take it that you

were attracted to Joyce.

Yes.

She was in her late 20s,

had an outstanding figure,

had a Southern accent,

long blonde hair.

Any heterosexual male

would be attracted to Joyce.

Prior to our departure from

the United States to England,

they wanted me

to meet the bodyguard.

His name was Gil.

Gil would come to their place.

I would come to their place,

then we would go down

to the beach.

Then they told me the beach they

were going to was a nude beach.

Well, I've never been

to a nude beach,

so that really slowed me down

a little bit.

Joyce spread out a blanket

and proceeded to take off

all her clothes.

Totally.

Very quickly,

three to four guys showed up

around the blanket

and started taking pictures.

I don't know

where they came from.

Joyce protested,

tried to stop them.

She claimed

that she was a model,

and she didn't want photographs

taken of her.

After about 15 minutes,

Joyce put on her clothes,

and we left the beach.

And so we met at Los Angeles

International Airport.

Keith May was there,

Joyce McKinney,

Gil Parker, and myself.

First off, Gil Parker

had a problem

when he went through customs.

They asked him

what his occupation was,

and he told 'em

he was a bodyguard.

And they said, "For who?"

And they said,

"For Joyce and Keith."

Well, that put up a red flag,

evidently, in customs,

and they pulled him out.

Well, that scared Gil

right there.

Then, on the second day, we were

in a motel room together,

and Joyce had a lot of baggage.

I'd never seen anybody travel

with so many bags.

And they took out

wireless microphone

and listening devices.

Surprised me.

I wasn't sure what they

were going to use it for.

It was something you

could probably

just have carried

through customs,

but they had it inside

of a portable radio.

Well, when Gil seen this,

that about did it for him.

That was when

he called me outside

and said he wanted to go back

the next day.

The private investigator

had told Joyce

two or three different places

where Kirk was at,

and Keith was gonna go

into some of these places

where this cult group

was supposed to be,

ask questions,

and it would be transmitted out

to Joyce in the car...

wirelessly.

Keith May and I, we wanted to

go out a little bit on our own,

but Joyce was keeping us

so busy, we couldn't,

so one day, she...

Keeping you so busy?

Yeah, driving places,

checking out places,

walking places.

She had this wig,

this wig she called "Matilda."

And she'd wear this strange wig

when we'd go out driving

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