Mommie Dearest

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Summary: The Queen of Mean!!!
Review: This is a great movie I remember seeing this movie on cable televison when I was a kid and I really did enjoy it besides the way that she treated her kids. I guess this is part of the autobiography of Joan Crawford portrayed by Faye Dunaway they made her look so much like Joan Crawford that it seemed like she was really Joan Crawford I liked the movie it was pretty good but she really did her kids and herself terrible and she didn't leave her kids anything how bad can mother be she beat her kids and she leaves them nothing !!!!!

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Summary: If You Like Campy You Will Probably Like This Movie!
Review: I remember seeing Mommie Dearest in a theater when I was 16 years old and liking it. I know people who didn't like this movie because they thought it was too campy and that Faye Dunaway overacted but I think it's the campy overacting and dialogue that made this movie interesting to watch so I guess you have to like campy movies to like this movie. Some of the dialogue in this movie has been quoted many times especially the no wire hangers line, some people can't seem to resist doing their no wire hangers imitation when they see wire hangers in someones closet. If you like campy movies I think that you will probably like this so I would recommend buying or renting the movie on DVD.

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Summary: The Campest Movie Ever Made?
Review: Oh what a treat Faye Dunnaway is in this hootiest of badly made movies! I remember sitting in the movie theatre in Adelaide, Australia when the film was released, ready for a serious hardcore look at the life of the magnificent Joan Crawford....oh what a disappointment it was at the time. But boy has it grown on me since! As an adult one has to wonder whether it was meant to be the campy movie it is or did heads roll? Regardless, I now regard it as one of my all time favourite movies and I'll watch it again and again and again! Diana Scarwid should have been a bigger star as a result of this film.

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Summary: Revenge!
Review: I watched this movie as a child with my mother. I remember how much we both loved the movie and were entranced by it. Shortly after, I got into an argument with my mother about cleaning up my room. I looked at my mother and said, "OK... Mommie Dearest...." with a smirk. It was devilish revenge for an 8 year old. I knew what it meant and so did she! I believe I was grounded for the full week for that one....Enjoy the movie! I did!

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Summary: If You Read The Book You Have To Watch The Movie!
Review: I watched this movie after reading the book and I liked it, yeah I know a lot of critics hate this movie and think Faye Dunnaway's acting was over the top campy but I like Fay Dunnaway and this is one of my favorite of her movies, well my favorite after Three Days of the Condor. A lot of reviewers have put down Diana Scarwoods acting as the adult Christina but I thought she was very good and I think Marta Hobel was very good as the young Christina and the babies used for infant/toddler Christina were adorabe with those big blue eyes and blonde curls. The movie had moments that came out unintentionally funny but you do get the feel in some scenes of how sad it may have been for Christina if she had to go through all those scary manic moments with her mother.

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Summary: More real than you realise
Review: When this film happened to come on TV when I was a child I was mesmerised by it. The reason I couldn't take my eyes off the screen was that it was the first time I had ever seen anyone acting on TV or anywhere else like my own mother did. Some of us actually live with people who behave like that.
If you had the same experience read Christina's book and also read this book
"Understanding the Borderline Mother" by another Christina and avilable on Amazon.
It explains Joan Crawford and the other mother's like her completely.

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Summary: Unsuitable?! She'll live a wonderful and advantaged life!
Review: This movie is supreme camp and the pinnacle of Faye Dunaway's career. She *was* Joan Crawford. The writing, too, deserved an Oscar. I own it in three formats; VHS, LaserDisc, and now DVD. This and The Wizard of Oz would be the two "must have movies" should your ship not return from its 3-hour tour. Unfortunately, the DVD doesn't have any wondrous extras, but who cares? It's special enough to have the film in a non-degrading format that will last me well into my nursing home years. This is the best use you can find for 17 measely dollars. Let's go!

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Summary: Most disturbing movie ever?
Review: This movie is totally messed up. Faye Dunaway's character of Joan Crawford is freaky. The movie is good but this has got to be the most dysfunctional family ever. Tons of yelling and screaming.

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Summary: Trashy, mysterious, memorable..
Review: I'm still not sure if the sympathy for Joan Crawford that this film (somehow) generates was intended or not. Faye Dunaway seems to be the only HUMAN character in the whole movie.. Yes, Joan had flaws. Who doesn't? What makes this movie so unbelievable is Joan being presented as the only character in the movie with flaws. Can we really believe Christina was such an angel? Course not! The fact that she wrote Mommie Dearest in the first place exposes a jealous brat. Basically, if I was Joan and grew up as a impoverished, abused, enslaved (in a convent school on a work scholarship) child and was surrounded by corrupt studio heads (who threw a talented actress away when she reached a certain age), promiscuous lovers, and basically stupid people in general (as the actors in this movie present them), I think I'd go a litte nuts, too! Kinda like Hedda Gabler or Joan's own Queen Bee. Except nobody even knows if this story is true. I'm inclined to believe it's just an exaggerated tribute to Joan Crawford, always suffering for love in a loveless world. Only in Mommie Dearest it drove her crazy. Maybe it's fiction, or maybe it's exaggerated truth. Either way, it packs a very powerful message. But you don't have to watch Mommie Dearest to get it. You can learn much more about Joan by watching the REAL Joan...all her hard-shelled vulnerability, heart, and beauty that Dunaway never could capture.

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Summary: Sensational, Over The Top, Electric Trash!
Review: Although this picture bombed at the box office and probably did not help Faye Dunaway's career, Mommie Dearest is an exciting, perverted and probably contrived view of the life of an actress during Hollywood's golden era. The script is downright awful, Diana Scarwid is a truly pitiful actress, but Faye's Joan is electric. The makeup, the wardrobe, the sets, the melodrama that turns shockingly violent at times, and the classic lines are all worth seeing over and over again. Really good trash! I loved it.