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Drop Dead Gorgeous is a 1999 American satirical mockumentary black comedy film directed by Michael Patrick Jann and written by Lona Williams. It stars Kirsten Dunst , Ellen Barkin , Brittany Murphy , Allison Janney , Denise Richards , Kirstie Alley , and Amy Adams in her film debut.
- $15 million
- Mark Mothersbaugh
- July 23, 1999
Jul 5, 2019 · Nearly every review of the movie compares it unfavorably to “Smile,” a beauty-pageant satire from 1975, which was directed by Michael Ritchie.
Jul 23, 1999 · For satire to work, it has to contain a kernel of truth. What made "Fargo" brilliant was the way it combined satire with affection and accuracy. The climax of "Drop Dead Gorgeous" contains a few cheerfully disgusting scenes that qualify it to open in this Summer of Raunch. But once again, the ideas are funnier than the images.
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Oct 31, 2020 · ” … audiences over the past decade and a half have come to appreciate the unfairly maligned Drop Dead Gorgeous as a searingly funny satire,” BuzzFeed reported. Part of that appreciation ...
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Jan 17, 2022 · In 1999, perhaps the film’s satire of white evangelical Christianity and its fervor against gun culture and crass capitalism cost it some viewers. Becky is an avid shooter; Tammy is the newly elected president of the “Lutheran Sisterhood Gun Club”; Gladys, we learn later, is prone to gun violence.
Jul 23, 2019 · Twenty years later, we live in a time that regularly confuses satire with endorsement, and Drop Dead Gorgeous may have been an early casualty of that.
Jan 6, 2023 · Drop Dead Gorgeous, the mockumentary-style beauty pageant satire, has haunted me throughout my life.
