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Also released as:
Mommie Dearest
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Mommie Dearest (Blu-ray)
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 2 hours, 8 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 6, 2006
- Originally Released: 1981
- Label: Paramount
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Faye Dunaway & Diana Scarwid | |
| Performer: | Steve Forrest, Howard Da Silva, Rutanya Alda, Mara Hobel, Jocelyn Brando, Xander Berkeley & Priscilla Pointer | |
| Directed by | Frank Perry | |
| Edited by | Peter E. Berger | |
| Screenwriting by | Frank Yablans, Frank Perry & Robert Getchell | |
| Composition by | Henry Mancini | |
| Subject: | Joan Crawford | |
| Produced by | Frank Yablans | |
| Director of Photography: | Paul Lohmann |
Memorable Quotes and Dialog:
"No wire hangers, ever!"
Entertainment Reviews:
49%
72%
With its hysterical sessions of psychological (and occasionally physical) torment, the movie is so wretchedly written and flatly constructed that it's easy to regard as a misguided horror flick.
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Christian Science Monitor
The movie is confusing and boring... Faye Dunaway does a decent job, but is incapable of overcoming the weakness of the book and the script. [Full Review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
It's rich, stimulating thought in spite of itself.
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Chicago Reader
...Screen history....Dunaway does not chew scenery. [She] starts neatly at each corner of the set in every scene and swallows it whole, costars and all...
Variety
The flaws aren't the story with this unusual film. The story is in the powerful, vivid and emotionally draining scenes of torment and conflict between a mother and daughter.
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Boston Globe
Director Frank Perry, who collaborated with three others (including producer Frank Yablans) on the script, gives it all a certain crazed conviction.
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Chicago Reader
...Dunaway's Crawford isn't out-of-control acting, but a fiercely thought-through depiction of an out-of-control person...
Entertainment Weekly
Product Description:
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 maintain her public image. After several screen successes, Crawford's plan to stay on top in Tinseltown includes adopting two children, Christina and Christopher, whom she plans on spoiling with love and gifts. As her career flags and her lack of success in her relationships with men chip away at her constitution, Crawford's treatment of her children becomes more and more brutal. Though this domestic horror tale is so over-the-top it that it is often celebrated as high camp, Dunaway's performance remains nothing short of astounding.
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