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02/28/08
Mommie Dearest (1981)
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Reviews Counted:29
Fresh:16
Rotten:13
Average Rating:5.6/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 9 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Based on the book by her adopted daughter Christina, MOMMIE DEAREST is the now-legendary tale of Hollywood superstar Joan Crawford (Faye Dunaway) and the lengths that she went to in order to... [More]
Starring: Faye Dunaway, Diana Scarwid, Steve Forrest, Howard Da Silva
Director: Frank Perry
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Reviews for Mommie Dearest
Really no dafter, perhaps, than some of Joanie's own Warner Bros melodramas; the trouble is, it thinks it's Art.
06/24/06
'No wire hangers -- ever!' That this apparently banal phrase has now achieved something like immortality is a reflection of the unbridled extravagance of Faye Dunaway's performance.
10/30/07
Dunaway creates the benchmark for harridans the world over but never entirely loses sympathy for her subject. It's a constant blast of high melodrama and camp.
10/30/07
No review available.
08/22/03
Horror's got nothing on Faye Dunaway.
07/15/01
Deliciously entertaining trash.
09/28/05
No review available.
09/02/03
It's rich, stimulating thought in spite of itself.
10/30/07
Top CriticMommie Dearest may very well be one of the most loathsome and sloppy screen treatments to ever have been derived from a literary memoir.
03/22/03
...relies almost entirely on Dunaway's histrionics to propel the story forward - resulting in a movie that's good for a few unintentional laughs but little else.
07/15/06
A peculiar hybrid: a high-camp Hollywood bio flick about child abuse, elevated substantially above its sordid material by Faye Dunaway's obsessively committed interpretation of legndary star Joan Crawford.
06/20/06
Perry and Yablans fuse this formal schizophrenia with the cruelly episodic structure and fetishized period details of Hollywood biopics.
05/31/06
Mommie Dearest features an intense and bold performance by Faye Dunaway as Joan Crawford.
01/31/04
No review available.
07/02/04
so absurdly engrossed with its own depressing subject matter that it forces you to laugh at it
08/01/01
There is nothing to string the episodes together into a coherent drama, and no insight into Miss Crawford herself.
08/30/04
Top CriticNo review available.
09/19/02
Right up their with Showgirls in the cinematic car wreck you can't avert your eyes from
06/06/03
Nightmarishly inept, inutterably depressing, but so campy it's compulsively watchable.
08/03/02
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