Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #56381 in DVD
• Brand: STARZ/SPHE
• Released on: 2008-09-09
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .25 pounds
• Running time: 86 minutes

Amazon.com
A documentary on Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, the troubled, enigmatic rapper from the female R&B group TLC. In the days leading up to her tragic death on April 25, 2002, Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes was on a spiritual retreat in Honduras. She had gone to her home away from home in order to distance herself from her problems, escape the chaos of the media and to face her inner demons. With the aid of a video camera and the support from those closest to her, she documented what would become her final days in journals and private home movies.

Special Features: Deleted scenes and exclusive new unreleased song: "Let's Just Do It" (DVD-ROM)



"...a fascinating chronicle of Lopes' tumultuous life and career." -- NY Daily News

Amazon.com
As the director of Tupac Resurrection, Lauren Lazin seems particularly well placed to profile R&B star Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes. While Lazin assembled her Oscar-nominated Tupac film after the actor/rapper's death, Lopes initiated this VH1 project herself. In an attempt to set the record straight, she traveled to Honduras in 2002 for a 30-day spiritual retreat and filmed the results. As Lopes explains, "Part of the purpose of this documentary is so that people can get to know me." Lazin uses this footage as a framing device before rewinding to Lopes' birth, childhood, and rise to fame. As in Resurrection, the subject provides the narration; in this case, self-recorded material from that fateful trip (Lopes was killed in an automobile accident on the 27th day). After 17 years in Pennsylvania and Florida, Lopes moves to Atlanta, where she joins TLC in 1991. As the trio racks up hits, like "Creep" and "Waterfalls," she struggles with alcohol, the media, and her record company (TLC files for bankruptcy at the height of their success). Then she meets NFL player Andre Rison, with whom she falls in love, despite his possessive nature. After a bad night, she sets fire to his sneakers, resulting in the destruction of his entire mansion, an act for which she may be better remembered than her music. Lazin succeeds in revealing different aspects of Lopes' complex persona, such as her altruistic and introspective sides. Supplemental features include deleted scenes and a previously unreleased version of "Let's Just Do It." --Kathleen C. Fennessy

Customer Reviews

Close-up to a good soul
This documentary is straight and -apart from some entirely unnecessary censorship- fairly unedited honest compilation of the video footage from Lisa's last days in Honduras. Some information and videos from her childhood and TLC life are inserted where appropriate to provide background information to the stories she tells to her friends and to the camera. This creates a quite informative picture about her career and some of her roots, but more importantly, it makes me feel like I can participate in one small piece of her very private life. It lets me have a very close look at her own, off-stage personality with all the twists, chaos, brilliance and these incredibly good energies inside... It's quite some time now that Lisa has left this planet, but I keep missing her a lot. If there is an afterlife, I guess she happily shakes up heaven now and keeps the good souls of our ancestors dancing in the skies (having a lot of fun in piece rather than just "resting" there).

The Last Days..
This documentary follows Lisa around during the last few weeks of her life. Throughout the journey, we learn many inside stories, leading up to the tragic death. Lisa was full of life, and you could see that she had so much she wanted to get done, yet it all got cut short. This documentary shows Lisa at all angels, and she finally speaks the truth about everything leading up to her final day. A must see for everyone!

TOUCHING YET DISTURBING
I've been a fan of TLC since late 1991. The chemistry and talent that T-Boz, Left Eye, and Chilli share with the world is something only TLC execute. After a decade of hits, singles, videos, albums, movies, ups and downs we lost one of the most creative emcees to every bless Hip-Hop and R-N-B. Years after her passing, the footage of the documentary that she was shooting was put together with tags of her history to create The Last Days of Left Eye. The story of her humble beginnings and rise to fame will warm your heart. The footage she shot on her last days will make you laugh and disturb you a little bit. Even if you aren't a fan of TLC, the story is so unique and interesting that this movie will probably keep the attention and engage anyone who watchs it. It also has a few short left-out scenes in the Special Features. The only downside is that the DVD boasts about having an unreleased TLC song called "Let's Just Do It" that should play as part of a CD-Rom. However, the song does not play. I've spoken to other people who have this DVD and they have the same problem. Reguardless, if u are a TLC and/or Left Eye fan, you will enjoy this DVD. Check it, and remember one of music's modern day legends.