TV-MA | 1h 28m | Documentary | July 26, 2022 I appreciate every kind of music. And while I’m not a diehard country fan, at the height of her career, I was definitely a diehard Shania Twain, the babe, fan. I didn’t love that lyric of hers, you know the one: “So you look like Brad Pitt … that don’t impress me much.” I thought, “Really? How tremendously stuck-up.” But then, you know, I’d see Shania in a Cowboys football jersey, and think, “Never mind—where can I find a framed poster of this?”
My main takeaway from “Not Just a Girl,” a documentary on Twain, was the footage of her, long before all her later beauteousness, as a little girl with big buck teeth, singing like an angel in one of the many bars her mom used to drag her to, to help pay the bills. And then slightly later, as a pre-teen—still with the Bugs Bunny chompers. Adorable doesn’t even begin to describe it….