Playboy Video Centerfold: Playmate of the Year Anna Nicole Smith (Video 1993) Poster

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6/10
Early Beginnings
refinedsugar17 May 2023
In 1993, Playboy was all about playing up Anna's hometown roots so you get some "candid" shots of her and a bunch of sound bites from residents of the little Texas town she originally grew up in to start things off. "She hated high school", "she was shy" and "she loved school" is obviously not very deep stuff, but that's your intro to this stunning blonde for her 'Playmate of the Year' video which gives you a pretty good taste as to why she'd become so popular.

From there we roll into a B&W fantasy scene of ANS & her handsome boyfriend pulling up in a nice car, dressed to kill at a fancy hotel & casino. She eventually gets bored and leaves her man while he's playing poker to go upstairs to their suite and take her clothes off. It's taken awhile to get some nudity for the record. She puts on some perfume, lingerie and falls asleep and he eventually shows up the next morning and they have sex (8 mins). Still shots of ANS's first Playboy magazine cover and centerfold is the bridge to the next scene. A handwritten note, trumpet, a sad looking ANS and then naked in bed. She ends up wet or oiled up (not completely sure) but looks great. The camera lingers over her body including a nice shot of her butt then water starts pouring in the room and she's definitely all wet now. A look that really suits her ... the only problem is this is early 90's Playboy so not enough sustained nudity and a little bit artsy (5 mins).

Family photos, pictures of Anna when she was a child, teenager and then back to ANS's hometown where she gives a brief presentation of the exterior of her old high school, childhood home and the fried chicken restaurant she worked at. Then her son gets introduced and they briefly play around and I gotta say this part got me choked up. Watching an innocent little boy who you know is going to grow up and die way too young. It's sad. Like mother, like son. We briefly meet her estranged birth father too and in a voiceover she says she found out about him thru a birthrights company and they started talking three months previously. This segways to another B&W scene of ANS on a ranch in a plaid dress which slowly highlights her naked and pouring water down her big breasts (3.5 mins). Then back to color in a bathtub with more views of her looking wet & fabulous (2 mins). In a voiceover outside a diner, she describes her ideal man as very sweet, big and funny. A real cowboy like the Marlboro Man which leads into a boy/girl offering naked glimpses of Anna and brings a close to this video (7 mins).

This was both early on for ANS & Playboy's relationship as she was just about to blow up in a big way. It gives some background on her life, but other events were yet to happen. Some of the scenes had questionable style choices (too much B&W) but if you're a fan of this woman it's a lean 37 mins view that focuses on her killer body more than anything which will leaves fan satisfied and definitely sums up why she was qualified to win Playmate of the Year for 1993.
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great stuff
jimminysnickety20 February 2013
Anna Nicole was nearly at her peak stardom when this was released. she was in a great place in her life when she appeared in all 70+ mins. of this. Anyone who wants to see Anna in the nude will love this. Nice montage of Anna as well. Her curvaceous body looks great.Anna resembles 50's blonde Jane Mansfield as she should.Anna gets intimate and doesn't hold back to her viewers.Great sets! this is a personal favourite movie. Her acting career didn't go as well as she liked with film flops like the straight-to-video To the Limit and Skyscraper. She also had small parts in Hudsucker Proxy and Nsked Gun with Leslie Nielsen. This was evidently a booming time for Anna Nicole and before she got fat.
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2/10
Never artistic, always sleazy
Horst_In_Translation5 December 2016
Warning: Spoilers
"Playboy Video Centerfold: Playmate of the Year Anna Nicole Smith" is a 35-minute documentary from 1993, so this one is almost 25 years old. And a lot has changed in these over two decades. Title character Anna Nicole Smith has died from a prescription drug overdose and so has her son Daniel. Oh and J. Howard Marshall II, her wealthy husband has died of course too, just briefly after this one came out. Anyway, this is a Playboy video directed by Scott Allen who has worked on several projects for the company I just mentioned. From start to finish we see Anna Nicole Smith in different poses, costumes and situations. We find out the usual stuff about how she was shy when she was young, how her parents were oh so poor etc. No idea how much of that is true. She certainly does not look like a shy one to me. Anyway, in my opinion this is a very slutty and sleazy 35 minutes. I see basically zero artistic value and as we not only see her make out and model in here, but also see her in a situation where she apparently has sex with a guy I am not scared of calling this porn, even if it was just staged. We see her big breasts for one third of the film I guess as she is topless a lot of the time. But she also shows us her bare bottom half of the body (including her vagina) during a couple scenes. Some things should better stay hidden. In my opinion, this film confirms that ANS was as unclassy as I remember. Then again, I may be a bit biased as I always preferred brunettes. And also because I never liked slutty girls. Major thumbs-down for me and finally the music throughout the entire film is as bad as what we see, like stolen from a cheap porn movie. Stay far far away.
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