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Mommie Dearest
Directed by
Frank Perry
PG
1981
2h 8m
Drama
,
Biography
6.6
49%
72%
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The abusive and traumatic adoptive upbringing of Christina Crawford at the hands of her mother, screen queen Joan Crawford, is depicted.
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Cast of Mommie Dearest
Faye Dunaway
Joan Crawford
Diana Scarwid
Christina Crawford
Steve Forrest
Greg Savitt
Howard Da Silva
L.B. Mayer
Mara Hobel
Christina Crawford as a Child
Rutanya Alda
Carol Ann
Harry Goz
Al Steele
Michael Edwards
Ted Gelber
Jocelyn Brando
Barbara Bennett
Priscilla Pointer
Mrs. Chadwick
Joe Abdullah
Captain
Gary Allen
Jimmy
Selma Archerd
Connie
Adrian Aron
Wedding Guest
Xander Berkeley
Christopher Crawford
Matthew Campion
Actor in Soap
Carolyn Coates
Mother Superior
Jerry Douglas
Radio Interviewer
Margaret Fairchild
Mother Superior
Phillip R. Allen
Pepsi Executive #1
James Kirkwood Jr.
Master of Ceremonies
Michael Hawkins
Pepsi Executive #2
Matthew Faison
Pepsi Executive #3
Peter Jason
Pepsi Executive #4
Ellen Feldman
Ginny
Robert Harper
David
Cathy Lind Hayes
Nurse
Victoria James
Photographer
Dawn Jeffory
Vera
Virginia Kiser
Beth Simpson
S. John Launer
Pepsi Chairman
Russ Marin
Funeral Director
Nicholas Mele
Assistant Director #2
Belita Moreno
Belinda Rosenberg
Warren Munson
Lawyer
Alice Nunn
Helga
Norman Palmer
Male Guest
David Price
Tony
Jeremy Scott Reinbolt
Christopher Crawford, age 5
Michael Talbott
Driver
Arthur Taxier
Decorator
Joe Warren
Mr. Dodd
Erica Wexler
Susan
Dick McGarvin
Tour Bus Driver
Brent Dunsford
Fan
Joseph Dypwick
Fan
Wendy Pitzer
Fan
David Sanderson
Fan
Ian Bruce
Assistant Director
Peter Eastman
Doctor
Lars Hensen
Man (uncredited)
Danny Nero
Formal Audience Member (uncredited)
Ilene Woods
Elderly Audience Member (uncredited)
Mommie Dearest Ratings & Reviews
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
I can't imagine who would want to subject themselves to this movie.
New York Times
Janet Maslin
There is nothing to string the episodes together into a coherent drama, and no insight into Miss Crawford herself.
Slant Magazine
Eric Henderson
Perry and Yablans fuse this formal schizophrenia with the cruelly episodic structure and fetishized period details of Hollywood biopics.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Director Frank Perry, who collaborated with three others (including producer Frank Yablans) on the script, gives it all a certain crazed conviction.
People Magazine
People Staff
Mara Hobel and Diana Scarwid are wonderful playing Christina the child and the adult... but it's Dunaway, greedily attacking her role, who proves most riveting. In this glossy, gaudy Hollywood kind of movie, she makes her very own kind of truth.
Washington Post
Gary Arnold
"Mommie Dearest," the film version of Christina Crawford's poison-pen memoir of her adoptive mother, Joan Crawford, looms as wretched excess.
Variety
Variety Staff
Dunaway does not chew scenery. Dunaway starts neatly at each corner of the set in every scene and swallows it whole, costars and all.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
It's rich, stimulating thought in spite of itself.
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
With its hysterical sessions of psychological (and occasionally physical) torment, the movie is so wretchedly written and flatly constructed that it's easy to regard as a misguided horror flick.
TIME Magazine
Richard Schickel
Lacking psychological intelligence or, for that matter, awareness of Hollywood sociology, Mommie Dearest is just a collection of screechy scenes further distanced by convictionless direction.
Flavorwire
Jason Bailey
The character is rendered such a grotesque, its moments don't accumulate to an arc or even a readable profile. They just pile up, like cars in a traffic accident, and all we can do is gawk.
Associated Press
Yardena Arar
By all accounts, Miss Crawford had serious failings as a mother, but the film pounds so unrelentingly on her raging cruelty to her children -- and her equally offensive public sweetness -- that she emerges as a laughable caricature.
Santa Cruz Sentinel
Rick Chatenever
Mommie Dearest is a work created out of pain, but by the time it gets to the screen the audience is laughing at its heroine's pathetic -- and potentially violent -- outbursts.
Boston Globe
Bruce McCabe
The flaws aren't the story with this unusual film. The story is in the powerful, vivid and emotionally draining scenes of torment and conflict between a mother and daughter.
Film Frenzy
Matt Brunson
The problem with Dunaway's over-the-top performance is that it becomes increasingly tiresome, less the fault of the actress than of the director (the usually dependable Frank Perry) and team of scripters.
FlickDirect
Allison Rose
Over the years, Mommie Dearest has created a cult like following the likes of which would make Joan Crawford proud.
Elements of Madness
Douglas Davidson
... Mommie Dearest is not a film I'm likely ever to revisit; however, I can recognize and acknowledge how it resonates with so many who can dissociate the reality from the characters.
The New Yorker
Pauline Kael
Faye Dunaway gives a startling, ferocious performance in Mommie Dearest. It's deeper than an impersonation; she turns herself into Joan Crawford, all right, but she's more Faye Dunaway than ever.
The Spool
Gena Radcliffe
[Faye Dunaway's] balls to the wall performance...gave color, flair and a heck of a lot of juice to what's normally a safe to the point of boring film genre.
WBUR’s Arts & Culture
Sean Burns
I think Dunaway's actually pretty great in this, going for broke with a baroquely stylized turn a galaxy away from the low-key naturalism so fashionable in boring biopics intending to bring icons down to earth.
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