Wood was the epitome of Hollywood glamor — a child star who amassed a trio of Oscar nominations by the age of 25 and married heartthrob Robert Wagner (twice). She also died under confoundingly mysterious circumstances, drowning off the couple's yacht — on an excursion with Wagner and her "Brainstorm" co-star Christopher Walken — in 1981, when Wood was just 43.The speculation about her death has provided tabloid fodder ever since. In 2018, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department stated that Wagner remains a person of interest in the unresolved investigation, and that details of his account "don't add up to what we've found."Gregson Wagner begins by talking about that tragedy in the context of her mother's memory, noting that the public preoccupation with it has "overshadowed her life's work, and who she was as a person."Director Laurent Bouzereau proceeds to present those aspects of Wood's life, augmented by family home video — some discovered in a storage unit and not previously seen — and carefully curated clips from her career, in everything from "Miracle on 34th Street" to "Rebel Without a Cause" to grownup roles in "West Side Story," "Splendor in the Grass" and "Love With the Proper Stranger."There is also a good deal of time devoted to Wood's personal history: Becoming the family breadwinner as a child; her domineering stage mother; relationships with Wagner and other famous men; and her commitment to raising her daughters, all recounted by family and friends who knew her best, among them Robert Redford, Mia Farrow and George Hamilton.To that point, it's a heartfelt, deeply personal exercise. Still, Wood's death remains the elephant in the documentary, as it were, and Gregson Wagner's on-camera chat with her stepfather (whom she refers to as "Daddy Wagner") is less an interview than a defense attorney's brief, allowing for his admissions that he had argued with Walken (who had been urging Wood to keep working) and drank too much that night."You would have given your life for my mom," Gregson Wagner tells him, expressing anger toward anyone who would suggest otherwise — a roster that includes Wood's sister, Lana.It's a shame, but an unavoidable one, that Wood's dRead More – Source
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