Divine Madness!
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| Divine Madness! | |
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| Directed by | Michael Ritchie |
| Written by | Jerry Blatt Bette Midler Bruce Vilanch |
| Starring | Bette Midler |
| Music by | Tom Jans |
| Cinematography | William A. Fraker |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
| Release date(s) |  September 13, 1980 (Toronto Film Festival) September 26 (limited) April 17, 1981 |
| Running time | 95 min. |
| Country | U.S.A. |
| Language | English |
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Divine Madness! is a concert documentary about Bette Midler directed by Michael Ritchie. It is a documentary about a Bette Midler concert.
Richie actually filmed three different concerts and cut them together to look like one; careful choreagraphy ensured that the viewer never sees any of the 20 cameras used at the concerts.
It was released in 1980 to relative critical success, Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert giving it three and a half stars saying that the film's only weakness was that there was not "enough close-up shots of the audience".
