Diana Scarwid, Faye Dunaway, Howard Da Silva
A portrayal of the actress Joan Crawford as a screaming witch-mother who abuses her kids.
DVD Release Date: July 17, 2001
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July 2, 2009Giving this more stars than it deserves just because it's so campy and bad, but SO VERY entertaining.
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November 7, 2008On the plus side: great for lines such as "I told you not to use wire hangers"......minus side: Resuilted in Faye Dunaway being blacklisted.... I found it to be enjoyable if somewhat campy...
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September 25, 2008When Joan freaked out it was very fun, but there are lots of drawn out sequences that we could have lived without.
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June 22, 2008Joan Crawford: "No... wire... hangers. What's wire hangers doing in this closet when I told you: no wire hangers EVER?"
Film legend Joan Crawford (Dunaway) seems to have it all: a thriving career, a beautiful Brentwood mansion, and a hunky boyfriend. However, Joan is determi...( read more) -
May 24, 2008Or what I like to call campy sh*t fest that killed Faye Dunaway's career. Mommie Dearest is as bad as everyone says it is but at even so bad that it becomes fun to watch. Quite simply this movie sucks.
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November 16, 2009Scenial mother with obsesive compulsive disorder attempts to be a stand up mom. She failed. The movie however was pretty good for a golden oldie. Slow but good
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October 5, 2009This may very well be one of the most loathsome and sloppy screen treatments to ever have been derived from a literary memoir. I only noticed four distinct areas in which "Mommie Dearest" is a complete disaster: the screenplay, the acting, the direction and the editing. Other tha...( read more)
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August 8, 2009Joan Crawford: you fear her, but you also kind of wanna be her as well. She is, was, and always will be the quintessential star of Hollywood. How else could a woman who really only starred in two (Mildred Pierce, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?) honest to goodness masterpieces ma...( read more)
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July 22, 2009Brilliantly done. I only just read the book and it's a page turner. The movie shows no where near close to what these kids went through. You must read the book 'Mommy Dearest' by Christina Crawford.
Critic Reviews
October 23, 2004
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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June 1, 2007I loved Faye Dunaway in this role. It was definitely a far cry from Bonnie and Clyde. I would never have guessed Joan Crawford was such a tyrant but then again this story was a little one sided from the view of the children. Not doubting there is truth I just felt the kids were not that innocent.
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February 28, 2007Joan Crawford: No... wire... hangers. What's wire hangers doing in this closet when I told you: no wire hangers EVER? I work and work 'till I'm half-dead, and I hear people saying, "She's getting old." And what do I get? A daughter... who cares as much about the beautiful dresses I give her... as she cares about me. What's wire hangers doing in this closet? Answer me. I buy you beautiful dresses, and you treat them like they were some dishrag. You do. Three hundred dollar dress on a wire hanger. We'll see how many you've got if they're hidden somewhere. We'll see... we'll see. Get out of that bed. All of this is coming out. Out. Out. Out. Out. Out. Out. You've got any more? We're gonna see how many wire hangers you've got in your closet. Wire hangers, why? Why? Christina, get out of that bed. Get out of that bed. You live in the most beautiful house in Brentwood and you don't care if your clothes are stretched out from wire hangers. And your room looks like some two-dollar-a-week furnished room in some two-bit back street town in Okalahoma. Get up. Get up. Clean up this mess.
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