bettie page be a icon of the repressed 1950s and when she represent the sexual freedom that be still a decade away and but high in the hope and dream of many teenager and young adult . gretchen mol do a superb job of portray the scandalous bettie and who be a small town girl with acting ambition and a great body . her act career go nowhere and but her body bring her to the peak of fame in an admittedly fringe field . photogrsphed in black and white with color interlude when she get out of the world of exploitation in new york and this make for tv ( hbo ) film have good production value and a very believable support cast . the problem be and it emotionally rather flat . it difficult to form an attachment to the character and since bettie be portray a someone quite shallow and naive give the business she be in . the self serve government investigation be give a lot of screen time and which slow down the film towards the end . but it definitely worth watch for the history of the time and and to see the heavy hand government repression that be a characteristic of the fifty . positive .