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Drop Dead Gorgeous
1999
There can be only one Miss Teen Princess and an overbearing mother will stop at nothing to make sure her daughter wins a beauty contest. A twisted comedy set in a small Minnesota town loaded with some very unladylike behavior. Watch out for the affected Midwestern accents! Read more
| Starring | Denise Richards, Kirstie Alley, Ellen Barkin, Kirsten Dunst |
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| Director | Michael Patrick Jann |
| Genres | Comedy |
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Drop Dead Gorgeous
There can be only one Miss Teen Princess and an overbearing mother will stop at nothing to make sure her daughter wins a beauty contest. A twisted comedy set in a small Minnesota town loaded with some very unladylike behavior. Watch out for the affected Midwestern accents!
| Starring | Denise Richards, Kirstie Alley, Ellen Barkin, Kirsten Dunst |
|---|---|
| Director | Michael Patrick Jann |
| Studio | ICON HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 34 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Collections | 100 Feisty Females |
| Genres | Comedy |
| Language | English |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Released | DVD: 13 Mar 2000 Production year: 1999 |
| Format | DVD |
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Critics' reviews (6)
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This highly sophisticated black comedy takes the form of a pseudo-documentary as it follows a small-town beauty pageant from the auditions to the glitz and glamour of the finals. Kirsten Dunst, a sweet girl from a trailer-trash background, is pitted against spoilt little rich girl Denise Richards. Meanwhile, someone in town is knocking off their competition. Ellen Barkin and Kirstie Alley are both excellent as the girls' cat-fighting mothers, and overall this is a very refreshing and ironic take on suburban American life. Director Michael Patrick Jann has succeeded in making an accessible and intelligent independent film in the same vein as Fargo, and the result is so much more interesting than the usual Hollywood fare.
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Heavy-handed satire on small town life and the beauty business; the narrative becomes too contrived to provide much satisfaction.
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20 out of 32 people found this review helpful
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superb..................
this dvd is superb. This is a documentary spoof style film, about a teenage beauty pageant. It centres around what is supposed to be the oldest such pageant in existence, the Mount Rose American Teen Pageant in Minnesota.
There are superb performances from Kirsten Dunst, as the pretty, but poor, girl who would be Queen, Ellen Barkin, as her trailer trash mum, Allison Janney, as their supportive and endearing neighbour, and last, but certainly not least, Kirstie Alley, with a priceless Minnesota type accent, who is nothing short of fabulous as the rich, manical, beauty pageant director who will stop at nothing to see her daughter, effectively played by Denise Richards, win the pageant.
well worth watching. -
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6 out of 6 people found this review helpful
A good laugh at middle america
Okay, the plot may be a bit clunky at times, but this is a good, dark dig at all those things that terrify us about modern America heartland: christian fundamentalism (some great gags), American nationalism and that wholesome apple pie-ness that we smug Brits all love to hate.
Heck - this is just a funny film with some great one-liners and it's not the girly film you might think it is at all. -
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