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Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999)
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Reviews Counted:65
Fresh:29
Rotten:36
Average Rating:5.3/10
Consensus: It's dark humor sometimes hits, but mostly misses the target.
Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: There can be only one Miss Teen Princess and an overbearing mother will stop at nothing to make sure her daughter wins a beauty contest. A twisted comedy set in a small Minnesota town loaded with... [More]
Starring: Kirstie Alley, Kirsten Dunst, Ellen Barkin, Denise Richards
Director: Michael Patrick Jann
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Reviews for Drop Dead Gorgeous
It all feels a bit like an uninspired take on Christopher Guest's genuinely hilarious Waiting for Guffman.
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01/08/03
Hilarious
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Drop Dead Gorgeous hasn't enough structural savvy to make it a winner.
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Top CriticHumorously effective!
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Ghoulishly funny!
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The ideas are funnier than the images.
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Top CriticIncompetent and silly!
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While Drop Dead Gorgeous is too long and uneven, Dunst's performance manages to sustain the film.
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Energetically acted but too in love with its own outrageousness, Drop Dead Gorgeous goes for the jugular of beauty pageant culture and ends up leaving only a hickey.
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06/03/06
If a movie billed as a comedy has not a single laugh, can it still be called a comedy?
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Some of this material is undeniably funny, but it will surely be painful to some viewers and reinforce negative prejudice in others.
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Beneath its mean-spiritedness is a sharp-clawed wit.
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Top CriticSo passe that the movie is virtually dead on arrival!
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Top CriticDerivative, a rip-off!
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As mean-spirited as movies come!
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