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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Paramount
EAN: 0097360420845
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 06, 2006
Running Time: 128 minutes
Sales Rank: 4195
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: September 18, 1981
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Product Description:
Outrageous and controversial, this is the story of legendary movie star Joan Crawford (Faye Dunaway) as she struggles for her career and battles the inner demons of her private life. This torment was manifested in her relationships with her adopted children, Christina (Diana Scarwid) and Christopher (Xander Berkeley). The public Crawford was a strong-willed, glamorous object of admiration, but Mommie Dearest reveals the private Crawford, the woman desperate to be a mother, adopting her children when she was single and trying to survive in a devastating industry that swallows careers thoughtlessly. The rage, the debilitating strain, and the terrifying descent into alcoholism and child abuse are graphically - and unforgettably – depicted in this film, based upon Christina Crawford's best-selling book.
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
Customer Reviews Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Without Dunaway this mind-numbing debacle would warrant no respect at all...
Okay, so I'm not here to debate whether or not Christina Crawford's memoir was accurate or not, or whether or not this movie portrays Crawford in a light worthy of her because I never knew her and so I cannot judge.I hear people defend this film and its interpretation of the screen legend, and then I hear people ambush this film as if it were a production of the antichrist.
Fact remains that the film, regardless of authentic merit, is really bad.
That isn't to say that ... Read More
Rating:  - Dunaway Is As Good As Brando Ever Was
I don't know if this review will reach anyone.Hopefully someone.This dvd is a must for anyone who has seen this film and loved it or anyone who wants to see it.Also an excellent way to learn more about Joan Crawfod and more importantly, Faye Dunaway.
Dunaway disowns this part and I think I get why. The part took its toll on her emotionally and is, in my opinion, one of the greatest screen performances ever on film. And what did this gifted actress get in return? Bad reviews, jokes ... Read More
Rating: - Dramatic, Intense
Mommie Dearest protrays the life of Christina Crawford who was adopted by Joan Crawford. Joan had mental problems I guess, because there are scenes where she makes Tina eat blood red raw meat, swim from one end of the swimming pool to the other several times, and the most dramatic of all.. the infamous clothes hanger beating. And then sends her to a boarding school for years! Then leaves her Nothing in her will. Why did Joan treat her daughter so harshly? And I think Tina probbally hated her mother because ... Read More
Rating: - Why Can't You Give Me The Respect I'm Entitled To!!!
I sat in a movie theater watching in wide-eyed wonder at the image of Faye Dunaway as Joan Crawford and I knew I was in for a treat! And Boy,did Faye deliver! She was always a bit over the top with directors that didn't know how to handle her(much like Crawford herself) but I wasn't ready for the spectacle I was about to witness! And I howled with laughter and loved her for it! Yes, Crawford would not likely be voted,"Mother Of The Year" but the image of Faye,dressed in black and her face covered in cold cream ... Read More
Rating: - Credit where due, Blame where due
Film is considered a director's medium, right?Then the praise or blame for this film belongs primarily to
Frank Perry, a respected director who filmed such classics as "David and Lisa."Secondly, the praise for this
movie should be given primarily to Faye Dunaway, whose fearless, bravura performance lifts it above the
director/producer/writers, who let he down.
Frank Perry and the producer Frank Yablans have first writing credit on the film, and so they should get the
lion's ... Read More
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