Drop Dead Fred
When Elizabeth was a girl, she had a mischivous imaginary friend called Drop Dead Fred. Now grown up, Fred re-enters her life after her womanizing husband leaves her and she moves back in with her controlling mother. It is a zappy movie that emphasizes self-actualization.
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2 February 1978, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
7 March 1958, Harlow, Essex, England, UK
18 February 1960
4 March 1934, San Francisco, California, USA
19 January 1960, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
29 May 1965, Arcadia, California, USA
2 April 1984, New York City, New York, USA
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May 05, 2014
The film is in desperate need of flow. It plays like a collection of bits, skits that have been thrown together with little eye to continuity.
May 05, 2014
This is easily one of the worst films I've ever seen.
May 05, 2014
Drop Dead Fred is a movie for people who like the sound of fingernails on blackboards and the feel of a drill bearing into a bicuspid.
May 05, 2014
It's particularly irritating if you've seen the much better Harvey.
May 05, 2014
That any of it, however, should suddenly, melodramatically lead to Elizabeth learning to assert herself is, to say the least, unpersuasive.
May 05, 2014
Drop Dead Fred is an erratic stab at making madness sensible, a slapstick nightmare that goes too sane, that tries too hard to be both good and rotten.
May 05, 2014
The episodic flashbacks are cast in an unfunny Freudian light -- domineering mother, helpless hubby, the tragically withdrawn child. What a laugh riot!
May 05, 2014
It's rare that a movie so cleverly conceived is so poorly executed.
May 05, 2014
Drop Dead Fred is a therapeutic fable for people who believe that by becoming an adult, one inevitably loses the capacity to have fun. But the alternative it suggests is nothing short of horrifying.
May 05, 2014
It tries too hard to mimic Beetlejuice, especially in British comic Rik Mayall's frantic performance as the title character -- Mayall is no Michael Keaton -- but it has a whimsical comic energy.
May 05, 2014
A charmless, irritating psychological fantasy that can`t decide whether to aim at kids or adults.
May 05, 2014
The movie is no comic masterpiece, but it is consistently amusing in a way that sometimes reminded me of a kiddie picture and at other times of a more sophisticated comedy.
