Review of Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999) by César V — 02 Sep 2011
Directed by TV stalwart Michael Patrick Jann, whose successes include Little Britain USA and Reno 911!, and written by Lona Williams (Roseanne, The Simpsons and The Drew Carey Show), this is a funny mockumentary about how small-town America turns nasty when fame and fortune is at stake, it's black humour is hilarious.
Set in Mount Rose, Minnesota, it follows a group of local beauty pageant contestants competing for a nationwide beauty pageant called the Sarah Rose Cosmetics Teen Princess Pageant, to be held in Lincoln, Alabama.
The contestants see this as a great opportunity to get ahead in life, and leave this boring little town, which only has a population of about 5,000 people. The contestants include Amber Atkins (Kirsten Dunst), who wants to be a newsreader.
There's Rebecca Ann Leeman (Denise Richards), whose mother, Gladys Leeman (Kirstie Alley) is the head of the pageant organizing committee. However, fellow contestant Tammy Curry (Brooke Elise Bushman) is blown up on her tractor, and Jenelle Betz (Sarah Stewart) has a stage light fall on top of her, it becomes apparant that someone wants to play dirty.
It's a bad taste comedy, and it owes alot to Waiting for Guffman, but it's got a nastier streak, but a good female supporting cast including Amy Adams, Brittany Murphy, Mindy Sterling and Ellen Barkin.
It's a good laugh, give it a go, oh and Adam West makes an appearance. :P.
This review of Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999) was written by César V on 02 Sep 2011.
Drop Dead Gorgeous has generally received mixed reviews.
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