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Drop Dead Gorgeous

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An annual beauty pageant in small-town Minnesota turns ridiculously competitive and ultimately chaotic in this biting comedy. Amber Atkins (Kirsten Dunst), the daughter of hard-drinking mom Annette (Ellen Barkin), and Becky Leeman (Denise Richards), who is motivated by her former beauty-queen mother, Gladys (Kirstie Alley), are among the top contenders in the event. As Amber, Becky, and other local girls prepare for the big day, bizarre incidents occur, leading up to an ending with a bang.
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It's dark humor sometimes hits, but mostly misses the target.

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Jia Tolentino New Yorker The smile of a beauty queen, the glinting crown and the heaps of flowers, always holds the faint scent of bloodlust, and a whisper of the grave. Jul 8, 2019 Full Review Globe and Mail Rated: 2/4 Mar 19, 2002 Full Review Kevin Thomas Los Angeles Times Rated: 4/5 Feb 14, 2001 Full Review Trace Thurman Horror Queers Podcast Acerbic and hilariously un-PC, Drop Dead Gorgeous stands the test of time as one of the best comedies ever made. Rated: 5/5 Jul 12, 2022 Full Review Joe Lipsett Horror Queers Podcast This cult classic is horribly offensive and devastatingly funny. Featuring a stacked cast of powerful female performers and a razor sharp screenplay, Drop Dead Gorgeous is a misunderstood classic that we will never see the likes of again. Jul 1, 2022 Full Review Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review While funny at times, it doesn't resonate beyond the gleeful, acidic surface Rated: 2.5/4 Feb 17, 2022 Full Review Read all reviews

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Andrea R I don't know how this movie came into my life, but my life has been better because of it. This is the best kind of dark humor. If I was a good person I would be ashamed of how often my husband and I reference and quote this movie. Because I am NOT a good person, I will continue to enjoy and quote the hilarious and totally inappropriate things that make this movie a masterpiece. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 09/24/24 Full Review Audience Member Hilarious. Simply hilarious. Just watch it. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 09/08/24 Full Review David C The cast are hilarious in this mockumentary and you will find you are missing jokes and puns that are constant throughout. Kristen Dunst at 17 shows the range of talent that grew in her career and Denise Richards shows at 28 she could pass for 17....as well as deliver a solid and well crafted performance Rated 5 out of 5 stars 06/16/24 Full Review Marc S This is one of the best movies of all time. The concept, the comedy, the script, the CAST. I could watch this movie a thousand times. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/08/24 Full Review Danny S I share the same dream with anyone entering into the crypto market, to make great profit and live the best of life. I met with a crypto broker specialist on Quora, we engaged in conversation, checked his review score and it was all great. I was given three packages to choose from, Amateur, Silver, and Gold Premium. I went for Gold since I won't be doing much work besides monitoring my profits. Beginner's startup amount was $5k which I did invest in quickly, within 5 hours I had not less than half a quarter million dollars in my investment account. That enticed me, and I hurriedly invested more, within 5 days, I had invested $385,000.00. Unfortunately, I had invested in a fake trading platform and was on the verge of losing almost half my retirement savings. It got to a point that after much pleading to this trader to give me even half of my initial investment amount instead, he kept insisting I pay more. I had already given up because it would be foolish of me to keep fetching water in a basket. Luck ran on me when I came across scammed victims of Cryptocurrency, Forex, and Binary trading. and how they have been able to recover their stolen money back. I did follow up on their conversation and realized it was all the good handwork of Cyber Genie Hack Pro. I got their contact info: and with all honesty, I will never regret reaching out to them, I will remember it as the day I was given birth again. Cyber Genie helped me recover my stolen money back within the short period of time I consulted them. They restored my smile and my financial stability by recovering all that was in my trading account without leaving a penny for those scammers. Email...."CYBERGENIE(@)cyberservices. com" W/A...."+(1)(25.25.12)(03.91)" Web...."https://cybergeniehackpro (.) xyz/" Rated 5 out of 5 stars 05/12/24 Full Review Christian D Y This movie is solid gold. Rotten tomatoes doesn't know 💩. Trust me. Solid. Gold. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 11/05/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis An annual beauty pageant in small-town Minnesota turns ridiculously competitive and ultimately chaotic in this biting comedy. Amber Atkins (Kirsten Dunst), the daughter of hard-drinking mom Annette (Ellen Barkin), and Becky Leeman (Denise Richards), who is motivated by her former beauty-queen mother, Gladys (Kirstie Alley), are among the top contenders in the event. As Amber, Becky, and other local girls prepare for the big day, bizarre incidents occur, leading up to an ending with a bang.
Director
Michael Patrick Jann
Producer
Judy Hofflund, Gavin Polone
Screenwriter
Lona Williams
Distributor
New Line Cinema, Capella International, Icon Film Distribution Ltd., Pony Canyon Inc., Metropolitan Filmexport [fr], Filmes Castello Lopes [pt], Concorde Filmverleih, New Line Home Video [us]
Production Co
New Line Cinema, KC Medien AG, Capella International
Rating
PG-13
Genre
Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jul 23, 1999, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Apr 3, 2019
Box Office (Gross USA)
$10.6M
Runtime
1h 39m
Sound Mix
Dolby SRD, DTS, SDDS
Aspect Ratio
Flat (1.37:1)