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Mommie Dearest
Glamorous yet lonely star Joan Crawford (Faye Dunaway) takes in two orphans, and at first their unconventional family seems happy. Yet, her problems with alcohol, men, and the pressures of show business turn her into a mentally abusive wreck seen through the eyes of her adopted children.
4 September 1942, Camden, Tennessee, USA
16 December 1955, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
10 October 1927, Jacksonville, Florida, USA
22 June 1952, Van Nuys, California, USA
13 October 1942, Riga, Latvia
4 May 1909, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
26 March 1939, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
December1938, Queens, New York, USA
October 15, 2016
The character is rendered such a grotesque, its moments don't accumulate to an arc or even a readable profile. They just pile up, like cars in a traffic accident, and all we can do is gawk.
October 23, 2004
I can't imagine who would want to subject themselves to this movie.
May 13, 2008
Director Frank Perry simply sits back and lets Dunaway rip. He was either supremely untalented or he purposefully intended to sabotage her.
February 20, 2013
Trashy soap opera drama on the private life of screen queen Joan Crawford.
October 30, 2007
Director Frank Perry, who collaborated with three others (including producer Frank Yablans) on the script, gives it all a certain crazed conviction.
February 28, 2008
Wire Hangers!
October 30, 2007
Dunaway does not chew scenery. Dunaway starts neatly at each corner of the set in every scene and swallows it whole, costars and all.
August 30, 2004
There is nothing to string the episodes together into a coherent drama, and no insight into Miss Crawford herself.
October 30, 2007
It's rich, stimulating thought in spite of itself.
October 13, 2015
Campy skewering of Hollywood star is both silly and sad.