Soapy and trashy, and more than a little bit ludicrous. But there's quite a bit of subtext if you need it.
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03/16/04
Die Mommie Die! (2003)
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Reviews Counted:57
Fresh:38
Rotten:19
Average Rating:6.1/10
Consensus: This stagy production has enough funny moments to work.
Runtime: 90 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Angela Arden (Charles Busch) is a former cabaret singer whose career has long since hit the skids and crashed to an abrupt halt. Her marriage to producer Sol Sussman (Philip Baker Hall) is rapidly... [More]
Starring: Charles Busch, Frances Conroy, Philip Baker Hall, Jason Priestley
Director: Mark Rucker
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11/01/03
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12/05/03
Busch muffles his drag performance, suffocating the humor, and the cleverness of the plot is given too much responsibility, as if the filmmakers were actually expecting this movie to be appreciated as a thriller.
10/30/03
First-time director Mark Rucker has a nice feel for period detailing but fails to build on his star's rare flashes of high energy.
10/30/03
Director Mark Rucker has the right intentions, but unfortunately, not enough skill in terms of comic timing and film pacing to make this confection really soar into parody heaven.
11/03/03
This drag queen camp farce was an unfunny drag.
07/06/09
Would be hysterical in a series of five-minute sketches. But with a flimsy plot and a reliance on 'aren't-we-naughty?' gay jokes, a feature film quickly becomes insufferable.
03/31/03
Busch is actually pretty great as Arden, but with nothing to hang his wig on, it all gets tiresome rather quickly, inviting unflattering comparisons to John Waters' superior 1980 effort, Polyester.
10/30/03
Bad camp...despite the stylistic similarity, about as far from 'Far from Heaven' as you can get.
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03/31/03
You quickly start to realize that there's not much of a movie here.
12/12/03
Rucker and Busch try hard to pour on the melodrama and the camp, but the results are too restrained and self-conscious.
10/31/03
This is such a smug, self-satisfied film that it will leave a bad taste in your mouth, whether you're a fan of old melodramas or not.
12/11/03
An extended skit on The Carol Burnett Show with fleeting full frontal nudity.
04/09/04
The best thing about "Die, Mommie Die" is the title.
11/04/03
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