Best-selling author Jacqueline Susann was a larger-than-life personality - so who better to play her than Bette Midler? Both Bette and Jackie, though, deserve something better than this rather rushed and sometimes under-rehearsed biopic which relies on some nice Jewish humour for what goodwill it can engender. Having failed as an actress and wanting only to be famous, Jackie writes a sleazy novel of Hollywood which becomes a worldwide best-seller. In all other ways, though, life gives her a raw deal, with persistent breast cancer, an acutely autistic son and even the temporary loss of her devoted husband and agent (Nathan Lane), whose defection doesn't quite make sense as presented here. Not so great.