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.
19 May 1951, New York City, New York, USA
18 November 1919, San Francisco, California, USA
30 November 1933, Schenectady, New York, USA
5 April 1939, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
27 August 1955, Savannah, Georgia, USA
September 11, 1919 in Essex, England, UK
5 May 1929, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA
December1938, Queens, New York, USA
13 October 1942, Riga, Latvia
18 May 1924, New York City, New York, USA
1 May 1934, Massachusetts, USA
29 April 1927, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
5 June 1916, Foxboro, Massachusetts, USA
10 October 1927, Jacksonville, Florida, USA
16 February 1932, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
5 November 1919, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
20 May 1921, Plymouth, England, UK
26 March 1939, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
22 June 1952, Van Nuys, California, USA
12 November 1932, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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
Director Frank Perry, who collaborated with three others (including producer Frank Yablans) on the script, gives it all a certain crazed conviction.
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.
February 28, 2008
Wire Hangers!
October 13, 2015
Campy skewering of Hollywood star is both silly and sad.
October 30, 2007
It's rich, stimulating thought in spite of itself.
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.
February 20, 2013
Trashy soap opera drama on the private life of screen queen Joan Crawford.
August 30, 2004
There is nothing to string the episodes together into a coherent drama, and no insight into Miss Crawford herself.
October 23, 2004
I can't imagine who would want to subject themselves to this movie.
