Charles Busch,
Natasha Lyonne,
Jason Priestley,
Frances Conroy,
Philip Baker Hall
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Playwright, performer, and drag queen Charles Busch appears in the leading role as aging pop star Angela Arden in the darkly comic melodrama Die Mommie Die. Based on Busch's own play, this film marks ... read more
DVD Release Date: June 29, 2004
Stats: 144 reviews
Die Mommie Die is more than a modern take on melodramas from the '50s and '60s in which unpleasant situations were blown out of proportion in order to let people like Bette Davis and Joan Crawford strut their stuff.
Imagine stepping back in time, going to the movies and catc... read more
Weird beyond belief and very bad acting. Although the acid trip was fantastic.
A very enjoyable send up/homage to Whatever Happened To Baby Jane? type films, this is a funny tale of double-crossings, secrets and murder, starring and written by Charles Busch (who also starred in and wrote Psycho Beach Party, with which this film shares a simila... read more
Not very good...you can tell this was derived from a play...
Good intentions, but it turned out to be an Indie-Dud IMO...
This movie is just incredible! It has the feel of one of the Joan Crawford or Bette Davis movies of the 60's. I love this film and it's plot. It reminded me so much of another great movie starring Bette Davis...Dead Ringer. The costumes in this film are very much from the 50's & ... read more
Occasionally hilarious, altogether never really boring, but not terribly memorable. Charles Busch looks disturbingly like Kathleen Turner.
You quickly start to realize that there's not much of a movie here. Full Review
Cheesy, corny and cheap. In other words, it's everything writer-star Charles Busch wanted his spoof of B-movies to be. Full Review
Aside from meeting a memorable character -- an aging pop diva with self-dramatizing flair -- this comedy thrives on arch melodrama and movie smarts.
How can you not like a movie where characters spout ridiculous dialogue such as, 'You can't discard me like one of your false eyelashes!' and believe every word they're hissing? Full Review
Picture Far From Heaven done as a farce with a drag queen in the Julianne Moore role. Or don't picture it -- Die is still hotly hilarious.
All this probably worked much better as a stage production. Full Review
In the midst of all the double-entendres and genre sendups, Busch disappears so completely into Angela's persona that viewers may quickly forget it's a man inside that red wig and those extravagant go... Full Review
Die Mommie Die! winds up neither hilarious nor a credible spoof of a genre intent on spoofing itself. Full Review
Occasionally stagy and flat, Die is worth seeing for Busch's grand performance.
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