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	Mommie Dearest - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mommie Dearest is a memoir and exposé written by Christina Crawford, the adopted daughter of actress Joan Crawford.
		Mommie Dearest, Christina Crawford, William Morrow and Co., 1978, ISBN 0-688-03386-5, hardcover
		Mommie Dearest, the 1981 movie adaptation of the memoir, starring Faye Dunaway as Joan Crawford
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mommie_Dearest (666 words)

	DVD Review - Mommie Dearest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Loosely adapted from adoptive daughter Christina Crawford’s scathing book of 1978, "Mommie Dearest" brings to the screen the lurid accounts of a hellish life under the tyrannical and unpredictable rule of Golden Era diva Joan Crawford.
		As shocking as this all sounds, "Mommie Dearest" became the unintentional camp hit of 1981.
		Paramount Home Video has released "Mommie Dearest" on this dual-layer disc in a striking anamorphic widescreen format that preserves the film’s original 1.85:1 aspect ratio.
	www.dvdreview.com /fullreviews/mommie_dearest.shtml (961 words)

	Mommie Dearest: Hollywood Royalty Edition (1981)
		Dearest really should be harrowing and painful to watch, but it’s so damned over the top that it makes child abuse hilarious.
		Mommie Dearest appears in an aspect ratio of approximately 1.85:1 on this single-sided, double-layered DVD; the image has been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
		Dearest may be 25 years old, but this erratic transfer often made it look even older.
	www.dvdmg.com /mommiedearest.shtml (1735 words)

	Salon Mothers Who Think \| Mommie Dearest in drag
		And in the third misfortune to beset the late screen legend, the movie "Mommie Dearest" inspired a widespread and durable cult, made up of gay men who to this day derive tremendous amusement from the movie's disastrous portrayal of Joan's disastrous role as a mother.
		Christina Crawford, quite literally the author of her dead mother's woes, emerged from the comparative seclusion of her Idaho ranch to introduce the movie "Mommie Dearest" to several thousand of those same gay men -- present company included -- who think the story of her childhood abuse is one big campy joke.
		Ultimately, I don't think Christina is laughing along with us Mommie Dearest queens because she thinks it, or we, or anything about the whole mess of her abuse and the movie and the cards and the jokes, is very funny.
	www.salon.com /mwt/feature/1998/07/01feature.html (2154 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - Mommie Dearest
		Mommie Dearest may have just as easily been called "Joan Crawford's Worst Moments." At least this might prepare the viewer for the inevitably one-sided tale that is being told.
		Paramount has seen fit to give Mommie Dearest an anamorphic widescreen transfer (maintaining its original aspect ratio of 1.85:1), and this film looks probably better than it ever has, short of its initial theatrical run.
		Mommie Dearest gets attention for being something of a cult film, loved for its true camp value.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/mommiedearest.php (885 words)

	Mommie Dearest (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Though the scene in Mommie Dearest where Dunaway as Crawford goes to the office of Louis B. Mayer (played by Howard Da Silva) and is fired is supposed to be in 1943, the large photograph of studio stars hanging on the wall behind his desk was taken years later.
		During the scene where young Christina is making one of her "uncles," who is visiting her mommie, a drink, there is an '80s era plastic bottle of 409 spray cleaner visible on the bar.
		The [2] exterior of the Mommie Dearest house is actually a home in Brentwood, next door to Ronald and Nancy Reagan's home that they lived in following his two terms as President and in which he later died.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mommie_Dearest_(film) (1221 words)

	Amazon.com: Mommie Dearest: DVD: Faye Dunaway,Diana Scarwid,Steve Forrest,Howard Da Silva,Mara Hobel,Rutanya Alda,Harry ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Based on the scathing and scandalous tell-all bestseller by Christina Crawford, the adopted daughter of histrionic Hollywood movie queen Joan Crawford, Mommie Dearest was billed in advance as a serious dramatic motion-picture biography.
		As most critics and fans of "Mommie Dearest" acknowledge, the film portrays such a pitiful story of abuse, with such an over-dramatic (but entirely true-to-life) performance by Faye Dunaway, it was both hilarious and depressing.
		When I found that Mommie Dearest was being rereleased in a special edition with extras, I was glad to hear that the movie might finally be restored to its original 4 hours.
	www.amazon.com /Mommie-Dearest-Frank-Perry/dp/B00005J6RD (2699 words)

	Mommie Dearest Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		And while Dunaway has supposedly disowned the film, Mommie Dearest features the notoriously temperamental diva in the role she was born to overplay.
		In light of Crawford's cast-iron screen persona, her adopted daughter's revelations that "Mommie Dearest" was a controlling, abusive, drunk, promiscuous, pathological germophobe wasn't exactly a shocker.
		Henry Mancini's lush, woozily decadent score sets the right tone for Mommie Dearest, which spans some nearly forty years in the insanely combative relationship between Crawford and her oldest daughter, first played by Mara Hobel as a stubborn youngster with a doll-like mop of blonde hair.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=2993 (900 words)

	Amazon.com: Mommie Dearest: Books: Christina Crawford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		With the 20th Anniversary Edition of Mommie Dearest, Christina Crawford becomes one of the only authors in publishing history to re-issue a number one best-seller.
		When reading a book such as "Mommie Dearest" the reader inevitably brings his or her childhood to the experience.
		Mommie's hair looked awful in the mornings; Mommie wanted the kids to be quiet when she was asleep.
	www.amazon.com /Mommie-Dearest-Christina-Crawford/dp/0688033865 (2389 words)

	Mommie Dearest mistakes, goofs and bloopers
		Continuity: when Mommie is cutting Christina's hair it keeps on changing from long to short several times.
		Continuity: When Christina mixes a drink for one of Mommie's "guests" she bends down behind the bar to put a bottle back.
		Other: When Mommie is beating Christina with the wire coat hanger, the padding on Christina's back is visible, and you can tell by the motion of "Mommie's" arm, that she is not using any force.
	www.moviemistakes.com /film844 (399 words)

	Mommie Dearest: Hollywood Royalty Edition \| The A.V. Club
		There's something unnerving about the cult infamy of Mommie Dearest, a harrowing fact-based account of horrific child abuse that has developed a reputation as a camp giggle-fest of the "so-bad-it's-good" variety.
		Less a conventional biopic than a Hollywood horror psychodrama, the film casts Dunaway as Crawford, a brittle, abusive alcoholic who terrorizes her two adopted children as she enters a steep professional decline.
		In Mommie Dearest, celebrity and glamorous femininity function as painfully artificial constructs that must be rigorously maintained at all costs, lest ugly truths bubble to the surface.
	www.avclub.com /content/node/49279 (371 words)

	Mommie Dearest - DVD Movie Central
		Based on the tell-all book by her daughter, it’s the story of Hollywood legend Joan Crawford as we’d never seen before (at the time), but has come to present such an indelible image of the star that today, we can hardly think of her in any other way.
		Christina turned out to be a foil for her mother, whose insecurities were beginning to wreak havoc.
		Mommie Dearest was intended as a drama but succeeded as camp, and has left images on our culture both indelible and unshakable.
	www.dvdmoviecentral.com /ReviewsText/mommie_dearest.htm (1378 words)

	Mommie Dearest
		Based on the book by her adopted daughter Christina, MOMMIE DEAREST is the now-legendary tale of Hollywood superstar Joan Crawford (Faye Dunaway) and the lengths that she went to in order to maintain her public image.
		When Christina mixes a drink for one of Mommie's "guests" she bends down behind the bar to put a bottle back.
		When Mommie is beating Christina with the wire coat hanger, the padding on Christina's back is visible, and you can tell by the motion of "Mommie's" arm, that she is not using any force.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/mommie_dearest/about.php (518 words)

	MOMMIE DEAREST - HOLLYWOOD ROYALTY EDITION DVD
		In any other context, Dunaway's fare-thee-well performance would guarantee instant hilarity, but the horrible things the titular Mommie Dearest does to her helpless prey kind of squelch the drag-queen pleasures to be had.
		Thus Mommie Dearest has no real angle on the mad spectacle of Joan/Dunaway obsessively scrubbing herself raw and screaming at the help when they fail to clean underneath a large potted plant before finally checking herself, saying, "I'm not mad at you.
		Paramount ponies up an average presentation for their DVD reissue of Mommie Dearest, which sports a somewhat pallid and detail-challenged 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/mommiedearest.htm (846 words)

	Mommie Dearest - Moviefone
		Mommie Dearest (1981) Mommie Dearest on IMDb: Movies, TV, Celebs, and more...
		The movie that made "No wire hangers!" a household phrase, Mommie Dearest is the very model of a modern "camp classic," so crazily outlandish that it's...
		Mommie Dearest - Cast & Crew, movie showtimes, plot, synopsis, exclusive features, trailers, clips, theater listings, reviews, message boards, dvd, videos, rentals and more on Moviefone.
	movies.aol.com /movie/mommie-dearest/1023514/main (160 words)

	Amazon.ca: Mommie Dearest (Widescreen) (Hollywood Royalty Edition): DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		And when, after the death of her Pepsico chairman husband, Crawford tells the board of directors, "Don't f--- with me, fellas!" one is very much inclined to heed her warning.
		In this special-edition of Mommie Dearest, John Waters does this cult-classic justice by providing a memorable audio commentary mixing industry insight with hilarity.
		Her scene-stealing performance definitely deserves top honors as the biggest bad movie we love moment there is. In fact, everything in MOMMY DEAREST deserves the highest praise, from its big budget grade B-movie look to its many jaw-dropping, pleasure-giving sequences (again, wire hangers anyone?).
	www.amazon.ca /Mommie-Dearest-Hollywood-Royalty-Edition/dp/B000ESSSUM (803 words)

	Mommie Dearest: Hollywood Royalty Edition (1981): Faye Dunaway, Diana Scarwid, Mara Hobel, Rutanya Alda - PopMatters ...
		Watching Mommie Dearest: Hollywood Royalty Edition with John Waters' commentary track is like seeing it with your sharpest, funniest friend, who just happens to have inside dish on Melanie Griffith.
		Waters' take on the rest of the film is earnest and quite compassionate, toward the filmmakers' choices as well as Joan herself, a woman he claims "could have been helped by Prozac." But even at his most sympathetic, Waters chases his remarks with a zingy twist.
		The DVD cannily punctuates commentary about Dunaway with scenes of her as Crawford from Mommie Dearest.
	www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/m/mommie-dearest-hollywood-dvd.shtml (1202 words)

	DVD Times - Mommie Dearest SE in June - Extras revealed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Outrageous and controversial, this is the story of legendary movie star Joan Crawford (Faye Dunaway) as she struggles for her career and battles the inner demons of her private life.
		This torment was manifested in her relationships with her adopted children, Christina (Diana Scarwid) and Christopher (Xander Berkeley).
		The public Crawford was a strong-willed, glamorous object of admiration, but Mommie Dearest reveals the private Crawford, the woman desperate to be a mother, adopting her children when she was single and trying to survive in a devastating industry that swallows careers thoughtlessly.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=60552 (826 words)

	DVD Review: Mommie Dearest - Hollywood Royalty Edition @ Blogcritics.org
		Based on the 1978 bestseller by Joan Crawford's daughter Christina, 1981's Mommie Dearest has been reissued as Mommie Dearest: The Hollywood Royalty Edition with special features befitting the film's stature as a cult classic 25 years after its original release.
		While the makers of Mommie Dearest may have intended to deliver a serious film about a woman with serious problems, what was produced was an over-the-top camp-fest that was hard to take seriously on any level.
		Mommie Dearest: The Hollywood Royalty Edition is a great film to add to your DVD collection.
	blogcritics.org /archives/2006/05/30/032927.php (1150 words)

	Movie Info for Mommie Dearest on MSN Movies
		The 1981 film version of this tome was evidently meant to be taken seriously, but the operatic direction by Frank Perry and the over-the-top portrayal of Joan Crawford by Faye Dunaway (whose makeup is remarkable) has always seemed to inspire loud laughter whenever and where-ever the film is shown.
		Surprisingly, one emerges from Mommie Dearest with more sympathy for the monstrous but intensely vulnerable Crawford than for her whining daughter (played as an adult by Diana Scarwid, and as a child by Mara Hobel).
		Our favorite scene: Joan Crawford dazedly replacing her ailing daughter in the cast of a daytime TV soap opera.
	movies.msn.com /movies/movie.aspx?m=161806 (174 words)

	Mommie Dearest - Frank Ferry - Joan Crawford
		Mommie Dearest by Frank Ferry is really an interesting movie on Joan Crawford
		Mommie Dearest, directed by Frank Perry, was released in 1981.
		The plot of the movie revolves round the life of a great actress, Joan Crawford as seen through the eyes of her adopted daughter Christina.
	www.dayformothers.com /movies/mommie-dearest-1981.html (243 words)

	Mommie Dearest - Movie Review
		Horror's got nothing on Faye Dunaway's harrowing portrayal of Joan Crawford -- a woman who will not be remembered as the Oscar-winning star of Mildred Pierce and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, but more likely as the subject of Mommie Dearest, a scathing biography based on a tell-all "novel" penned by Crawford's adopted daughter Christina.
		While it's justly criticized for trivializing child abuse, Mommie Dearest paints a unique picture of the kind of criminal behavior movie stars and other celebrities are allowed to get away with.
		Though the film rambles for too long, especially after young Christina has grown up and the story comes to an end, Mommie Dearest is unforgettable, immimently quotable, and a cultish classic.
	www.contactmusic.com /new/film.nsf/reviews/mommiedearest (189 words)

	Mommie Dearest
		Probably true, after all is said and done, I consumed a lot of alcohol in the past, but what few cells remain seem to work.
		Mother dearest came in, last night, looking for her father's photograph.
		Was upset that she couldn't find it, but I reassured her it was safe lying flat in a plastic case, under the bed.
	www.mattoid.com /data/Detritus/mommie_dearest.htm (8590 words)

	TINA!!!! BRING ME THE AXE!!! -- Mommie Dearest (1981) Fanlisting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Based on the Christina Crawford tell-all book of the same name, Mommie Dearest tells of the brutal (and brutally hillarious) life endured by adopted daughter Christina under her mother's care and the twisted relationship resulting thereof.
		We don't have that much in the way of rules to follow here; just follow these simple notions and you should be fine.
		You've got to be a fan of Mommie Dearest, in some aspect.
	nasty-dress.net /mommie (461 words)

	YouTube - MOMMIE DEAREST vs QUARTZLOCK - No Regrets
		Not annoying like most of the Mommie Dearest homages....
		Mommie Dearest No Regrets Joan Crawford Gay Camp Humour Drag Video Nightclub Footage (more) (less)
		Mommie Dearest spoof - "No Wire Hangers!!" scene
	www.youtube.com /watch?v=e25M4GjelRg (168 words)

	City Pages - Movies - Mommie Dearest
		The last time I caught my quarterly screening of this, Faye Dunaway's immortal string of schizzy flout sketches, based on Christina Crawford's tell-all excoriation of her abusive movie-star mommie Joan, it was improbably running as a Sunday matinee on Oprah's Oxygen network.
		It seemed a vulgar example of counterprogramming for the soccer mom channel, what with Joan's grisly quip, "Discipline mixed with love is such a good recipe." But the episodic plot weathers so many self-conscious estrogen swings that it almost seems a natural fit.
		Nothing if not a total character assassination, the film begins with Joan already well past her peak, fighting off the onset of middle age (and a pink slip from Louis B. Mayer), and ends with the reading of her will.
	www.citypages.com /movies/detail.asp?MID=7314 (424 words)

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