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Mommie Dearest - Hollywood Royalty Edition (1981)
Front Cover Actor Back Cover
Faye Dunaway
Diana Scarwid
Steve Forrest
Howard Da Silva
Mara Hobel
Rutanya Alda
Harry Goz
Michael Edwards
Jocelyn Brando
Priscilla Pointer
Movie Details
Director Frank Perry
Producer Frank Yablans
Writer Tracy Hotchner; Robert Getchell
Studio Paramount Pictures
Language English
Audience Rating PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Running Time 128 mins
Country USA
Color Color
Plot
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
Personal Details
Seen It Yes
Index 187
Collection Status In Collection
Links Amazon US
DVD Empire
Product Details
Edition Hollywood Royalty Edition
Format DVD
Region Region 1
Screen Ratio Widescreen 1.85:1 Color (Anamorphic)
Layers Single Side, Dual Layer
UPC (Barcode) 097360420845
Release Date 1/2/2007
Subtitles English
Packaging Keep Case
Audio Tracks ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 5.1 [CC]
ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Mono [CC]
FRENCH: Dolby Digital Mono
Nr of Disks/Tapes 1
Extra Features
Commentary by Filmmaker John Waters
The Revival of Joan
·How the sensational biography was brought to the screen.
Life With Joan
·The making of the film with exclusive behind-the-scenes stories.
Joan Lives On
·The film's cult following with John Waters and Joan Crawford Impersonator Lipsynka.
Photo Gallery
Original Theatrical Trailer