Rucker and Busch try hard to pour on the melodrama and the camp, but the results are too restrained and self-conscious.
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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!
A one-note farce that struggles just to remain on key.
11/03/03
It plugs ahead on the stamina and sheer nerve of its author-star.
12/12/03
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
Busch muffles his drag performance, suffocating the humor, and the cleverness of the plot is given too much responsibility, as if the filmmakers were actually expecting this movie to be appreciated as a thriller.
10/30/03
Top CriticA brilliantly pitch-perfect sendup of a particular type of cheesy movie.
10/31/03
Top CriticDie 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
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
Top CriticYou quickly start to realize that there's not much of a movie here.
12/12/03
[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
like "Far From Heaven" as imagined by John Waters
11/01/03
The most notable aspect of “Die, Mommie, Die” is the great female impersonation performance by Charles Busch as the ardent Angela.
11/01/03
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
For 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
...Busch drags his campy send-up of Hollywood melodramas to the screen, and honey does it drag.
02/24/04
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
Top CriticThe best thing about "Die, Mommie Die" is the title.
11/04/03
An expertly crafted, loving homage to women's movies of the 1940s and '50s.
10/30/03
Top CriticDrag queens are no longer funny just because they're drag queens; we've lost the nervousness about gender that once made us need to laugh at a man in drag.
10/31/03
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