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Mommie Dearest
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 2 hours, 8 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 6, 2006
- Originally Released: 1981
- Label: Paramount
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Faye Dunaway & Diana Scarwid | |
Performer: | Steve Forrest, Howard Da Silva, Rutanya Alda, Mara Hobel, Jocelyn Brando, Xander Berkeley & Priscilla Pointer | |
Directed by | Frank Perry | |
Edited by | Peter E. Berger | |
Screenwriting by | Frank Yablans, Frank Perry & Robert Getchell | |
Composition by | Henry Mancini | |
Subject: | Joan Crawford | |
Produced by | Frank Yablans | |
Director of Photography: | Paul Lohmann |
Memorable Quotes and Dialog:
"No wire hangers, ever!"
Entertainment Reviews:
The flaws aren't the story with this unusual film. The story is in the powerful, vivid and emotionally draining scenes of torment and conflict between a mother and daughter.
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Boston Globe
...Dunaway's Crawford isn't out-of-control acting, but a fiercely thought-through depiction of an out-of-control person...
Entertainment Weekly
Lacking psychological intelligence or, for that matter, awareness of Hollywood sociology, Mommie Dearest is just a collection of screechy scenes further distanced by convictionless direction.
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TIME Magazine
Mommie Dearest is a work created out of pain, but by the time it gets to the screen the audience is laughing at its heroine's pathetic -- and potentially violent -- outbursts.
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Santa Cruz Sentinel
Mommie Dearest becomes a kind of homage to the monster herself -- the emotions are so splendid, the scenes so dramatic, the experiences so incandescent.
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The Spectator
The movie is confusing and boring... Faye Dunaway does a decent job, but is incapable of overcoming the weakness of the book and the script. [Full Review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
[A] compelling watch...
Total Film
Product Description:
Based on the book by her adopted daughter Christina, MOMMIE DEAREST is the now-legendary tale of Hollywood superstar Joan Crawford (Faye Dunaway) and the lengths that she went to in order to maintain her public image. After several screen successes, Crawford's plan to stay on top in Tinseltown includes adopting two children, Christina and Christopher, whom she plans on spoiling with love and gifts. As her career flags and her lack of success in her relationships with men chip away at her constitution, Crawford's treatment of her children becomes more and more brutal. Though this domestic horror tale is so over-the-top it that it is often celebrated as high camp, Dunaway's performance remains nothing short of astounding.
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Product Info
- UPC: 097360420821
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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