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
Reviews for Die Mommie Die!
The best thing about "Die, Mommie Die" is the title.
11/04/03
Die Mommie Die! seems more like an amateur revue, perfectly all right for what it is, but not meant to be seen beyond an audience of friends and family.
12/14/03
Die Mommie Die is one of the funniest films of the year! Mind you it sure isn't the usual toilet-trodden road-trip snorfing anti-cerebral crapitini we are force fed...
10/26/03
Busch is such a tenaciously subversive entertainer that you appreciate the movie despite Mark Rucker's iffy directorial strategies.
10/31/03
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11/01/03
...Busch drags his campy send-up of Hollywood melodramas to the screen, and honey does it drag.
02/24/04
The film's greatest asset is Busch himself in a performance so finely tuned that ultimately one almost forgets he's not the glamorous woman with the ritzy wardrobe that he's portraying -- except for the fact that that's the funniest part.
04/27/03
Drag queens are no longer funny just because they're drag queens; we've lost the nervousness about gender that once made us need to laugh at a man in drag.
10/31/03
Top CriticBusch 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
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
Charles Busch is a mighty attractive woman.
10/08/03
An expertly crafted, loving homage to women's movies of the 1940s and '50s.
10/30/03
How can you not like a movie where characters spout ridiculous dialogue such as, 'You can't discard me like one of your false eyelashes!' and believe every word they're hissing?
11/28/03
Aside from meeting a memorable character -- an aging pop diva with self-dramatizing flair -- this comedy thrives on arch melodrama and movie smarts.
11/28/03
What could have been a one-gag movie turns out to be one of the funniest comedies John Waters never made.
10/31/03
With smart humor and a comfy sense of camp (thanks particularly to Busch's leggy performance), director Mark Rucker keeps the high heels kicking and the references flying.
10/31/03
Charles Busch channels Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Lana Turner and Susan Hayward in the lovingly crafted “Die Mommie! Die!” – this you HAVE to see!
11/03/03
If you thought Rocky Horror was 'okay, but not all that' then Die Mommie Die is not for you. But if you have an open mind, a good knowledge of old film and TV, and like your sexual innuendo a little multi-flavored, this is one hell of a good movie.
03/31/03
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03/31/03
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