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31 October 2003 (USA)
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Hollywood...It's a dirty town but someone has to do it!
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An ex-pop singer kills her much-hated husband to be with her young lover. Her daughter plots Electra-like revenge. | full synopsis
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4 wins
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2 nominations
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Writer Gets Movie Credit -- On Placards Inside Theaters
(From Studio Briefing - Film News. 4 November 2003)
(From Studio Briefing - Film News. 4 November 2003)
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High camp genre parody works pretty well
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Charles Busch | ... | Angela Arden / Barbara Arden |
 | Angela Paton | ... | Angela's Fan |
 | Jason Priestley | ... | Tony Parker |
 | Natasha Lyonne | ... | Edith Sussman |
| Frances Conroy | ... | Bootsie Carp |
 | Philip Baker Hall | ... | Sol Sussman |
 | Stark Sands | ... | Lance Sussman |
| Josh Hutchinson | ... | Policeman |
 | Victor Raider-Wexler | ... | Sam Fishbein |
 | Nora Dunn | ... | Shatzi Van Allen |
 | Christopher McDaniel | ... | Moving Man #1 (as Chris McDaniel) |
 | Tom Hughes | ... | Moving Man #2 |
 | Stanley DeSantis | ... | Tuchman |
| Paul Vinson | ... | Leather Daddy |
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Rated R for strong sexual content, language and a drug scene.
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90 min
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During one of the black and white flashbacks, Barbara is shown at a jewelry counter that reads "Kenwrights", named after the film's producer Bill Kenwright.
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Angela Arden:
You know, I Magnin is having a sale on go-go boots. We could make a day of it.
Edith Sussman: Go-go boots? They're about as ancient as a hoop skirt.
Angela Arden: Then I could use your able assistance as a fashion consultant.
Edith Sussman: Well, my first bit of advice, mother, would be to cancel your next face lift, and start acting your age.
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Edith Sussman: Go-go boots? They're about as ancient as a hoop skirt.
Angela Arden: Then I could use your able assistance as a fashion consultant.
Edith Sussman: Well, my first bit of advice, mother, would be to cancel your next face lift, and start acting your age.
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References Imitation of Life (1959)
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Why Not Me
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Charles Busch is a female impersonator who writes and stars in genre parodies. His last filmed effort was Psycho Beach Party. This latest effort, Die Mommie Die, is a parody of the drama queen melodramas of the 50s and 60s, in which actresses like Susan Hayward schemed and
seduced callously, and encountered crises which were not only larger than their real-life counterparts, but also arrived with far greater frequency.
The genre died out of the film world before most of you were born, but it left behind a legacy of nighttime soap operas like Dynasty, so if you can remember Joan Collins on the small screen, you'll have a good idea of the equivalent big screen target Busch is focusing on.
Busch is a talented guy, whom you may remember from his portrayal of Nat Ginsberg on Oz. I don't know if it's even correct to call him a female impersonator. He is a male who plays certain types of female roles convincingly. His characterization in this film is so convincing that you'll forget he is a male, and his writing shows a real gift for walking the line between lampoon and homage.
Busch and director Mark Rucker got the actors to deliver all their outrageous lines in a consistently theatrical and obviously insincere style to match Busch's own. I thought Jason Priestly was especially funny as a bisexual gigolo. The entire film plays out as if everyone in the cast knows he or she is in a high camp entertainment, and wants the audience to know that they know.
I laughed a lot, to tell you the truth. I suppose drag queen movies may not be what most of you are looking for. Me neither. But the fact of the matter is that Busch can probably evoke the actresses of that era better than any contemporary female I can name. Hell, When I was a kid I always wondered if Bette Davis and Joan Crawford were really middle aged men in wigs, so who better to portray them than a 48 year old man in a wig?
Busch is making fun of the melodrama queens, but he also has a gift for witty dialogue and a genuine regard for the subject matter which makes this an entertaining confection about part of filmdom's barely-remembered past.