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Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999)
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Subtle is not the word to describe Drop Dead Gorgeous, a mock documentary purporting to cover the Sarah Rose Cosmetics Teen America Beauty Pageant in Mount Rose, Minnesota. Ellen Barkin (Sea of Love) and Kirsten Dunst (Interview with a Vampire, Dick) are perfectly cast as a mother and daughter whose only ambition is to use the pageant to get out of their claustrophobic small-town lives. Opposing them are Denise Richards (Wild Things, Starship Troopers) and her mother, Kirstie Alley (Look Who's Talking), who just happens to be the pageant's organizer. The plot, which centers on contestants...
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Kirsten Dunst was the cutest thing in this black comedy about the pursuit of the American dream. Showing that fantasy and reality often mirror each other, one is reminded in this film of the Texas mother who hired a hit-man to go after the mom and her cheerleader daughter. Here, it is mom (Kirstie Alley) herself that uses...
(complete Drop Dead Gorgeous review by Movie Addict)
A tremendously dark and hilarious movie about the US's obsession with beauty and pagentry and beauty pagents.
This mockumentary finds the female side of funny where so many Christopher Guest films tend to focus on the male side.
Kirsten Dunst stars as a girl who wants to be Diane Sawyer and thinks that she will do so...
(complete Drop Dead Gorgeous review by Jessica Film Junkie)
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