What a wild story. [Update 03/30/2025: This review blows. Will rewatch the
film and fix it. I just deleted some of it, since it was garbage.]
Okay, so what I can decipher from this fascinating documentary by Errol Morris
is back in 1977 you have this mildly attractive young woman with mental issues,
Joyce McKinney, who becomes obsessed with a local guy, Kirk Anderson,
who's also seems to be off his rocker as well. Anyway, they become a
couple(?), but then he goes to England on a missionary trip without telling
her. She becomes a prostitute in order to pay a detective to find
Kirk. Once she locates Kirk, she hires some dudes to go with her to
England to free him. They get Kirk (the story gets foggy here) and take
him to a remote cottage where Joyce attempts to un-brainwash him with three days
of nonstop sex. Eventually, Kirk calls his family, they pick him up and
press charges against Joyce for kidnapping and rape. That's when the
tabloid newspapers gets hold of the story and it explodes.
TABLOID is a fun lightweight documentary and definitely worth checking out.