i do not personally know karen carpenter and nor and richard for that matter and so i must go by how the movie portray her . i think a good person to ask about it accuracy would be her brother richard . however and from what i do see and learn of karen and i felt her pain and share her sadness and and she be a very special person to me grow up . i know that i wasn not bear until 1965 so i do not get to know her as much a some of you older fan but i definitely grow up listen to her music and i have fond memory of her music . i remember the song about the radio ( every sha la la la every whoa . so fine and ) etc and i remember we have only just begin . a a matter of fact and i memorize many and many of her song and some people ( quite a few ) tell me that my voice sound almost identical to her . ( i be not joke on this ) . i also use to be anorexic during high school and part of college ( 1978 1987 ) to be exact and weigh anywhere from 82 pound to eventually 120 pound in 1987. i develop some pretty serious health problem from that which help me to identify with the actress portray karen in the movie . the mother ( agnes ) be very much like my mother in many way and i could also feel the pain that karen must have experience . for and my mother be often unfeeling and critical and and disapprove a agnes be ( if this be true to accuracy ) . the movie be helpful in identify and get to know karen on a more personal note by not just hear her music but by see what she be go through . it be quite difficult to portray a person entire life in 2 3 hour and recount every single detail perfectly so i would have to say that there be probably no biography that be that accurate . i will give this story an 8 though . i wish i do know karen personally . i would have die to meet her . i would have love to have shook her hand and give her a hug and or talk to her . i feel her warmth and love every time i hear one of her song and she be greatly miss .