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Summary: This Movie Is So Bad, It's Great!!
Review: I love "Mommie Dearest". It has some of the worst acting in cinema history (Steve Forrest in particular - just brutal). It has the great actress Faye Dunaway in the most overblown acting role in cinema history. It makes a disturbing subject like child abuse seem comical. And I love all 129 minutes of it. The lines ("No Wire Hangers!", "Don't f*** with me fellas!", "Clean up this mess!") are classics. A must for folks with a sick sense of humor!Also, if you want to have fun and are watching the movie with a group of people (especially those who've never seen it), at the end of the movie yell "DON'T TOUCH ME, B**CH!" It'll force your guests into looking for new underwear!
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Summary: Terrible
Review: How can any of the many reviewers say this is a great movie. It is awful! The supporting actors are awful (especially the older Christina). The soul reason I give this one star is for Faye Dunaway. Yes she was good, not at her best, but was good. Dunaway was much better ini "Bonnie and Clyde" and "Chinatown". She can not get this movie out of the whole. Yes, you do find yourself laughing, but that was nnot the intention. The intention was to make you sad and mad, but it did not succeed. it only made us laugh harder. It is such a terrible movie because it is so atupid. The way they depict Joan ,Crawford's personal life is really quite terrible. Hollywood agrees with me. The Golden Raspberry Awards (Worst movie awards) gave "Mommie Dearest" the title of worst film of the '80's. Maybe it wasn't the worst film of the 80's but it was one of them. "Mommie Dearest" deserved every poor review it got.
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Summary: It's not just about Joan Crawford.
Review: It's about adoption, too. Christina is not the only child to be abused by her adopters. There are other issues to consider while watching this movie. Motives for wanting to be known as the parent of someone else's child should always be questioned -- like Crawford's motive for publicity. Also, money does not guarantee a healthy, happy environment. For all her wealth, Crawford provided an extremely dysfunctional home for her adoptees. And, the abuse an adoptee suffers is compounded by the emotional damaged that comes with adoption itself, so please watch this movie with Christina in mind.
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Summary: Magnetizing And Interesting
Review: This is not a bad movie like some would call it. It's one of those movies that if I notice that it's on (whatever part of the movie), I'll usually end up watching it. I saw Mommie Dearest for the first time many years ago. Faye Dunaway does an extraordinary job. Parts of this movie are classic. One of the best scenes is when before leaving the bathroom after a crazy episode, she says to her daughter, "CLEAN UP THIS MESS"! Hilarious and captivating.
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Summary: Mommie Cheapest
Review: After seeing this film the only person I felt sorry for was Faye Dunaway. Actors get paid a great deal, but this film proves that they have to take responsibily for the mistakes of everyone else involved. She may have put too much into the movie, but everyone else seemed to put far too little into it, especially the supporting actors and the studio. It's no surprise she wanted wooden coat hangers, they would fit in with the rest of the cast. She seemed to spend the latter 3 decades of her life as Joan Crawford in the same 2/3 places, no wonder she went boss-eyed. Surely she cannot have been aware how bad this film would have turned out. I think the biggest issue this film raises is cruelty to actors.
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Summary: Wow! Faye Dunaway is the best, and such an amazing actress!
Review: Faye Dunaway sparcles in a mvoie that is so horrifying yet so amazing! I watched this movie as a young child and was appauled that Joan Crawford would do something so insensitive to her children! This movie should have given Faye Dunaway an OSCAR BECAUSE SHE DESERVED IT!!!! I think that Faye is an incredible actress and she derseved every bit of praise for this mvoie!!! If you listen to nothing of waht I just said please listen to this Faye Dunaway is so amazing in this so get it!!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: Hey...I Get It Now!
Review: Thank God for the comments from TULSA and others here which admit to the camp humor of this film! When I first saw it, I thought there was perhaps something wrong with me for thinking it was funny. But now I look back and realize that this really WAS intended to be a bitingly satirical, "let the laughter echo inside your head", type of movie. I often liken it to a spoof of the old "Dracula" m movies, with Crawford as the vampire draining the life forces out of her daughter,and the Hollywood mansion the "old dark castle." Had there been a scene involving garlic it would have been perfect!
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Summary: Brutal Movie!!!
Review: This movie was down right brutal. How could anyone treat their kids that way? I mean, she got mad if her daughter used wire hangers. She only alowed her kid to have 1 toy for their birthday and Christmas. If she was my mom I would have to kill myself to be in peace!!!
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Summary: A DISTUBING, HILARIOUS LAUGHFEST
Review: If you take this movie at face value, it is just plain bad. If you add the camp appeal, it is a classic ! There are so many great lines from this movie - and such bad acting. My personal favorite is Christina telling her Mother "That is a LIE !" followed by two slaps across the face from Joan. Faye Dunaway does not understand to this day why this movie all but decimated her career. The answer, Faye darling, "You went too far." Other campy moments are "Get the GD Company (Pepsi) to pay the bills," "Don't F*@K with me fellas," and, of course, the wire hangers.
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Summary: The most unintentionally hilarious movie of all time!
Review: i feel gulity for laughing at the graphic scenes of child abuse, alcoholism, and dysfunction, but i cannot help myself. actually, the guilt makes me laugh even more. i am in love with this film! next time you are bored, have a little contest with your friends. you each take turns saying lines from the movie, until someone cannot think of one.
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