American poet Sylvia Plath, played beautifully by Gwyneth Paltrow, put her kids to bed and killed herself one night in 1963. Her marriage to poet Ted Hughes (Daniel Craig) had ended. He screwed around and was more famous than she was. That’s it. One of the fiercest love stories of the last century is reduced to Star Is Born pap. Paltrow looks glam even in death, which only supports the notion, raised by Plath’s daughter Frieda Hughes, that the movie would be about a "Sylvia Suicide Doll." Good…

The tragic and true story of mid-century poetess Sylvia Plath, a Fulbright scholar and golden girl whose mental instability undermined her success as a writer, destroyed her marriage and ultimately led to her suicide.

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Sylvia is based on notes released five years ago by the writer's husband, British poet Ted Hughes, after 30 years of silence (Hughes died of cancer in 1998). They chronicle Sylvia's painful battle with depression, frustration over her writing career, and jealousy of husband…