Mommie Dearest
Glamorous yet lonely star Joan Crawford (Faye Dunaway) takes in two orphans, and at first their unconventional family seems happy. Yet, her problems with alcohol, men, and the pressures of show business turn her into a mentally abusive wreck seen through the eyes of her adopted children.
18 May 1924, New York City, New York, USA
24 June 1922, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
24 December 1926, Lawrence, Massachusetts, USA
1 November 1949, Dallas, Texas, USA
29 April 1927, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
13 January 1944, USA
22 July 1944, Hollywood, California, USA
2 February 1955, Waverly, Iowa, USA
5 May 1929, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA
4 September 1942, Camden, Tennessee, USA
24 November 1944, Pensacola, Florida, USA
22 June 1952, Van Nuys, California, USA
30 November 1933, Schenectady, New York, USA
22 August 1924, Hollywood, California, USA
1 May 1934, Massachusetts, USA
17 November 1961, Los Angeles, California, USA
December 17, 1918 in USA
4 May 1909, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
16 February 1932, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
18 June 1971, New York City, New York, USA
24 July 1952, USA
February 28, 2008
Wire Hangers!
February 20, 2013
Trashy soap opera drama on the private life of screen queen Joan Crawford.
October 23, 2004
I can't imagine who would want to subject themselves to this movie.
October 13, 2015
Campy skewering of Hollywood star is both silly and sad.
August 30, 2004
There is nothing to string the episodes together into a coherent drama, and no insight into Miss Crawford herself.
October 30, 2007
Director Frank Perry, who collaborated with three others (including producer Frank Yablans) on the script, gives it all a certain crazed conviction.
May 13, 2008
Director Frank Perry simply sits back and lets Dunaway rip. He was either supremely untalented or he purposefully intended to sabotage her.
October 30, 2007
Dunaway does not chew scenery. Dunaway starts neatly at each corner of the set in every scene and swallows it whole, costars and all.
October 15, 2016
The character is rendered such a grotesque, its moments don't accumulate to an arc or even a readable profile. They just pile up, like cars in a traffic accident, and all we can do is gawk.
October 30, 2007
It's rich, stimulating thought in spite of itself.
