Die Mommie Die! (2003)
68 %
Reviews Counted: 57 Fresh: 39 Rotten:18 Average Rating: 6.1/10
Consensus:
This stagy production has enough funny moments to work.
Runtime: 90 mins
Theatrical Release: Oct 31, 2003 Limited
Synopsis: Angela Arden (Charles Busch) is a former cabaret singer whose career has long since hit the skids and crashed to an abrupt halt. Her marriage to producer Sol Sussman (Philip Baker Hall) is rapidly heading the way of her career, but with Sol unwilling to agree to a divorce Angela gets busy with a... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Charles Busch, Frances Conroy, Philip Baker-Hall, Jason Priestley, Natasha Lyonne
Director: Mark Rucker
Screenwriter: Charles Busch
Producer: Dante DiLoreto, Anthony Edwards, Bill Kenwright
Composer: Dennis McCarthy
Screenwriter: Charles Busch
Producer: Dante DiLoreto, Anthony Edwards, Bill Kenwright
Composer: Dennis McCarthy
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07/21/05
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If Far From Heaven had had any sense of humor, it might have looked a little like this.
07/08/04
An extended skit on The Carol Burnett Show with fleeting full frontal nudity.
04/09/04
Soapy and trashy, and more than a little bit ludicrous. But there's quite a bit of subtext if you need it.
03/16/04
...Busch drags his campy send-up of Hollywood melodramas to the screen, and honey does it drag.
02/24/04
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12/19/03
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Die Mommie Die! seems more like an amateur revue, perfectly all right for what it is, but not meant to be seen beyond an audience of friends and family.
12/14/03
This is such a smug, self-satisfied film that it will leave a bad taste in your mouth, whether you're a fan of old melodramas or not.
12/11/03
... an over-the-top pastiche of John Waters-style raunch, Greek tragedy and weepy Sirkian soap.
12/05/03
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12/05/03
A loving homage to every movie Joan Crawford ever barreled her shoulder pads through.
11/28/03
Cheesy, corny and cheap. In other words, it's everything writer-star Charles Busch wanted his spoof of B-movies to be.
11/28/03
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Aside from meeting a memorable character -- an aging pop diva with self-dramatizing flair -- this comedy thrives on arch melodrama and movie smarts.
11/28/03
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How can you not like a movie where characters spout ridiculous dialogue such as, 'You can't discard me like one of your false eyelashes!' and believe every word they're hissing?
11/28/03
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Picture Far From Heaven done as a farce with a drag queen in the Julianne Moore role. Or don't picture it -- Die is still hotly hilarious.
11/04/03
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