Mommie Dearest (Hollywood Royalty/Special Collector's Edition)
starring: Faye Dunaway, Diana Scarwid, Steve Forrest, Howard Da Silva, Mara Hobel
directed by: Frank Perry
directed by: Frank Perry
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The movie that made "No wire hangers!" a household phrase, Mommie Dearest is the very model of a modern "camp classic," so crazily outlandish that it's fascinating. Based on the scathing and scandalous tell-all bestseller by Christina Crawford, the adopted daughter of histrionic Hollywood movie queen Joan Crawford, Mommie Dearest was billed in advance as a serious dramatic motion-picture biography. But it turned out to be something much, much weirder--a genuine Hollywood oddity that serves up a bizarre mixture of melodramatic trash and outrageous tragi-comedy. Joan Crawford won an Oscar for playing the role of the self-sacrificing mother, the woman who would do anything for her daughter, in Mildred Pierce. As depicted by Faye Dunaway (playing the hell out of the role as if she's determined to win another Oscar of her own, damn it!), her role as offscreen parent puts her in a league with big-time scary screen mommies such as Mrs. Bates in Psycho, and Angela Lansbury's über-mom in The Manchurian Candidate. Dunaway's Crawford torments and terrorizes her adopted children in myriad ways--making them give away their own birthday gifts and rousting them from their beds for frantic after-midnight bathroom-scrubbing attacks. And when, after the death of her Pepsico chairman husband, Crawford tells the board of directors, "Don't f--- with me, fellas!" one is very much inclined to heed her warning. --Jim Emerson
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Amazon.com:
The movie that made "No wire hangers!" a household phrase, Mommie Dearest is the very model of a modern "camp classic," so crazily outlandish that it's fascinating. Based on the scathing and scandalous tell-all bestseller by Christina Crawford, the adopted daughter of histrionic Hollywood movie queen Joan Crawford, Mommie Dearest was billed in advance as a serious dramatic motion-picture biography. But it turned out to be something much, much weirder--a genuine Hollywood oddity that serves up a bizarre mixture of melodramatic trash and outrageous tragi-comedy. Joan Crawford won an Oscar for playing the role of the self-sacrificing mother, the woman who would do anything for her daughter, in Mildred Pierce. As depicted by Faye Dunaway (playing the hell out of the role as if she's determined to win another Oscar of her own, damn it!), her role as offscreen parent puts her in a league with big-time scary screen mommies such as Mrs. Bates in Psycho, and Angela Lansbury's über-mom in The Manchurian Candidate. Dunaway's Crawford torments and terrorizes her adopted children in myriad ways--making them give away their own birthday gifts and rousting them from their beds for frantic after-midnight bathroom-scrubbing attacks. And when, after the death of her Pepsico chairman husband, Crawford tells the board of directors, "Don't f--- with me, fellas!" one is very much inclined to heed her warning. --Jim Emerson
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- Completely Satistified!!
NO WIRE HANGERS....EVER!!!!! LOL!!! Do i even have to say it?? I Love this movie!! The service was excellent!!!! The disc was brand new and what more do i need to say? DO BUSINESS WITH THIS PERSON!!!!
Rating: - True to the book
Obviously the book has more detail but the tyranny of absolute emotional and physical control is starkly captured.A magnifiscent portrayal!
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- Damaged DVD.
I got this movie for my mom.LOL. For xmas. I opened the dvd put it in the dvd player and it was skipping. BRAND NEW! I looked at the dvd and the ring in the middle looked a bit damamged. I wont buy another!
Rating: - Mommy Dearest
Arrived on time and in the exact condition as stated in their description.I would use them again.
Rating: - LOVE IT!!!!!!!
This is one of the few movies I can look at again and again. They did a Great job on this movie-we will never know the true story and I am ok with that.Movie Stars are real people with real issues just like us -wait with way more issues then us.Sorry this kind of treatment happens to a lot of children and it is sad becuase sometimes it does not come out till its to late.In closing I LOVE THIS MOVIE!!!!!
- Completely Satistified!!NO WIRE HANGERS....EVER!!!!! LOL!!! Do i even have to say it?? I Love this movie!! The service was excellent!!!! The disc was brand new and what more do i need to say? DO BUSINESS WITH THIS PERSON!!!!
- True to the bookObviously the book has more detail but the tyranny of absolute emotional and physical control is starkly captured.A magnifiscent portrayal!
- Damaged DVD.I got this movie for my mom.LOL. For xmas. I opened the dvd put it in the dvd player and it was skipping. BRAND NEW! I looked at the dvd and the ring in the middle looked a bit damamged. I wont buy another!
- Mommy DearestArrived on time and in the exact condition as stated in their description.I would use them again.
- LOVE IT!!!!!!!This is one of the few movies I can look at again and again. They did a Great job on this movie-we will never know the true story and I am ok with that.Movie Stars are real people with real issues just like us -wait with way more issues then us.Sorry this kind of treatment happens to a lot of children and it is sad becuase sometimes it does not come out till its to late.In closing I LOVE THIS MOVIE!!!!!
