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Jul 16, 1999 · Film; Reviews; Jul 16, 1999 12:00am PT Drop Dead Gorgeous ... "Drop Dead Gorgeous" is a fitfully amusing satire that would have gained a lot of mileage from just a tad more subtlety. Short on star ...
Synopsis. The battle between the good and the bad is bound to get ugly. In a small Minnesota town, the annual beauty pageant is being covered by a TV crew. Former winner Gladys Leeman wants to make sure her daughter follows in her footsteps; explosions, falling lights, and trailer fires prove that. As the Leemans are the richest family in town ...
Jul 28, 2019 · Drop Dead Gorgeous leaned in much harder and suffered critically and commercially as a result. Miss Congeniality, on the other hand, plays on cable almost every other weekend thanks to its breezier, lighter tone. Both films are funny, but a lot has changed in the last 20 years, including comedic sensibilities, and the absurdities that made Drop ...
DROP DEAD GORGEOUS begins as a film crew arrives at Mount Rose to make a documentary on the making of the pageant. The crew interviews Gladys Leeman (Kirstie Alley), rich, a former pageant winner, President of the Mount Rose Civil Serviettes, honorable member of the Lutheran Sisterhood Gun Club and mother of Becky Leeman (Denise Richards), the ...
Jul 23, 1999 · The Stinkers Bad Movie Awards. • 1 Nomination. A wickedly colorful, twisted comedy, Drop Dead Gorgeous probes the heart of a small Minnesota town where a fictional teen beauty pageant has unleashed a fury of very unladylike behavior. (New Line Cinema)
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Jul 9, 1999 · As an upper Midwesterner myself (Wisconsin, not Minnesota, though), this film is sort of like a cultural time capsule. "Minnesota nice" is an extremely real thing, and the exact brand of consumerist optimism and American pride found in Drop Dead Gorgeous is very unsubtle, though maybe less detectably so compared to today's America. Lots of ...
Oct 31, 2020 · In a 15th-anniversary profile of Drop Dead Gorgeous, BuzzFeed traced how the movie, released in 1999 to rough box office sales and middling reviews, ended up becoming a cult classic film. As the ...
