Wicked Stepmother 1989

Wicked Stepmother

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Movie Info

After going on vacation, Steve (David Rasche) and Jenny Fisher (Colleen Camp) come home to find that Jenny's elderly father has remarried. What's more, his new wife is a real witch -- both literally and figuratively. Her name is Miranda Pierpoint (Bette Davis), and she quickly upends the couple's quiet household. Jenny tries in vain to break the spell Miranda has cast on her father, but her problems get bigger when Miranda's sultry daughter, Priscilla (Barbara Carrera), moves in.

Rating:

PG-13
Genre:

fantasy
Original Language:

English
Director:

Larry Cohen
Producer:

Robert Littman
Release Date (Streaming):

Mar 23, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA):

$43.7K
Runtime:

1h 32m
Production Co:

Larco Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Animation, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Sound Mix:

Surround

Cast & Crew

Bette Davis
Miranda Pierpoint

Barbara Carrera
Priscilla

Colleen Camp
Jenny Fisher

David Rasche
Steve Fisher

Lionel Stander
Sam

Tom Bosley
Lt. MacIntosh

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Critic Reviews for Wicked Stepmother

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Awful save for some moments of unintended comedy.

February 12, 2006 | Rating: C- | Full Review…

Nick Schager
Lessons of Darkness

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Audience Reviews for Wicked Stepmother

Dec 06, 2015

Silly, stupid and nonsensical. If only Bette had stopped one sooner than The Whales of August would have been her final film not her few minutes in this piece of junk. A pity.

jay n Super Reviewer
Mar 13, 2012

Kind of like watching a car crash. I was interested to see this as it was Bette Davis's final film. I was disappointed to see she's only in it for about 20 minutes (if that). I read up on it online, and it seems she was either too ill to finish it, or else she walked out due to a bad script. Either way seems plausible. Bette is extremely frail looking here. Still glamorous, but frail for sure. The way she speaks her lines is really campy - I know she wasn't that bad an actress! That alone almost put this right up there with The Room for me. Unfortunately Bette leaves to be replaced by her daughter, and the whole thing goes downhill. I can only assume they did some huge rewriting. I think I may actually have really liked this if Bette had stayed through the whole thing. (Don't get me wrong, it still would have been awful, but a funny awful). The rest of the cast are pretty tragic. The daughter doing the sexy dance when she's not, the wife (although I didn't mind her) really can't act either - the grandpa was probably the better actor out of all of them, and that's saying a bit. Special effects sucked, but hey, the 80's, I could overlook that. All considered can only really recommend this to fans of Bette (who will most likely be disappointed by the briefness of her role) or people who like really, really bad movies.

Nicki M Super Reviewer