I Am Woman (film)

I Am Woman is a 2019 Australian biographical film about singer Helen Reddy, directed and produced by Unjoo Moon, from a screenplay by Emma Jensen.

Tilda Cobham-Hervey stars as Reddy alongside Evan Peters, as her manager husband Jeff Wald, and Danielle Macdonald as rock writer Lilian Roxon.

In 1966, Helen Reddy arrives in New York City to record an album, the result of her having won a contest in her home country of Australia.

Wald enlists family and friends to help promote the demo by requesting it on radio stations and soon the B side, a cover of "I Don't Know How to Love Him", becomes Reddy's first hit.

Overcome by shock and exhaustion, Reddy collapses and wakes up in the emergency room to discover the Equal Rights Amendment, a feminist cornerstone, has been defeated.

Reddy lived in a care facility in Los Angeles before her death one month after the film's Australian release, and her family advised the filmmakers on the project.

[6] It was reported on 31 March 2020 (before the extent of the COVID-19 pandemic was known) that I Am Woman was scheduled for release in Australia by Transmission Films,[7] in North America through Aqute Media, and elsewhere by Metropolitan (France), Nos (Portugal), Inopia (Spain), Videovision (South Africa), Front Row (Middle East), Bliss Media (China), Scene & Sound (South Korea), Ale Kino+ (Poland), VTI (former Yugoslavia), Cineplex (Taiwan), Golden A Entertainment (Thailand) and Cinesky (airlines).

The site's critics consensus reads: "I Am Woman sticks disappointingly close to standard biopic formula, but Tilda Cobham-Hervey's performance keeps this affectionate, watchable tribute from falling flat.

"[10] Indiewire declared the film “a cut above other genre entries”,[11] while David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter described it as “entertaining and sharply packaged” with “considerable appeal”.