With smart humor and a comfy sense of camp (thanks particularly to Busch's leggy performance), director Mark Rucker keeps the high heels kicking and the references flying.
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10/31/03
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Die Mommie Die! (2003)
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Reviews Counted:57
Fresh:38
Rotten:19
Average Rating:6.1/10
Consensus: This stagy production has enough funny moments to work.
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... [More]
Starring: Charles Busch, Frances Conroy, Philip Baker Hall, Jason Priestley
Director: Mark Rucker
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Reviews for Die Mommie Die!
Busch can transcend even the smog, making hazy camp seem fresh.
10/28/03
[Busch] is a performer who is more diva than most of the ovary-packing portion of the population and twice the dame
11/01/03
In the midst of all the double-entendres and genre sendups, Busch disappears so completely into Angela's persona that viewers may quickly forget it's a man inside that red wig and those extravagant gowns.
10/31/03
The film's greatest asset is Busch himself in a performance so finely tuned that ultimately one almost forgets he's not the glamorous woman with the ritzy wardrobe that he's portraying -- except for the fact that that's the funniest part.
04/27/03
An expertly crafted, loving homage to women's movies of the 1940s and '50s.
10/30/03
Top CriticFor the select audience that likes The Rocky Horror Picture Show and just wishes that it had more of a family story and less singing.
10/31/03
A loving homage to every movie Joan Crawford ever barreled her shoulder pads through.
11/28/03
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11/16/03
Charles Busch channels Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Lana Turner and Susan Hayward in the lovingly crafted “Die Mommie! Die!” – this you HAVE to see!
11/03/03
If Far From Heaven had had any sense of humor, it might have looked a little like this.
07/08/04
Die Mommie Die is one of the funniest films of the year! Mind you it sure isn't the usual toilet-trodden road-trip snorfing anti-cerebral crapitini we are force fed...
10/26/03
Nobody wears a frock like Charles Busch and, as it happens, nobody writes like him either. Which makes for a strangely irresistible combination.
10/31/03
Part tribute, yes, and part genderf**k too, but DIE MOMMIE DIE! is first a surprisingly smart, encyclopedic reimagining of the conventions, themes (and yes, clichés) of cinema's most golden age.
10/28/03
Charles Busch is a mighty attractive woman.
10/08/03
A brilliantly pitch-perfect sendup of a particular type of cheesy movie.
10/31/03
Top CriticCheesy, corny and cheap. In other words, it's everything writer-star Charles Busch wanted his spoof of B-movies to be.
11/28/03
Major kudos to Busch for playing this lady as hilariously real, yet over-the-top as possible.
09/12/03
It plugs ahead on the stamina and sheer nerve of its author-star.
12/12/03
Tart enough to curl the ends of John Waters' moustache.
09/17/03
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