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Die Mommie Die! (DVD, 2004) 
Die Mommie Die! (DVD, 2004)

 
Die Mommie Die! (DVD, 2004)

Director: Mark Rucker
Rating: Rated R
Release Date: Jun 2004
Format: DVD
UPC: 758445904222
Product ID: EPID30546556
Description: Angela Arden (Charles Busch) is a former cabaret singer whose career has long since hit the skids and crashed to an abrupt halt. Her marriage to producer Sol Sussman (Philip Baker Hall) is rapidly heading the way of her career, but with ...
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Movie Description
Angela Arden (Charles Busch) is a former cabaret singer whose career has long since hit the skids and crashed to an abrupt halt. Her marriage to producer Sol Sussman (Philip Baker Hall) is rapidly heading the way of her career, but with Sol unwilling to agree to a divorce Angela gets busy with a bottle of arsenic and terminates the marriage in a less-than-legal manner. Now free to carry on her illicit affair with hot young stud Tony (Jason Priestley), Angela first has to deal with a suspicious daughter, Edith (Natasha Lyonne), and equally suspicious family maid Bootsie (Frances Conroy). Son Lance (Stark Sands) also plays a crucial role, especially when it turns out that both he and Edith are also bedding Tony.


First-time director Mark Rucker has successfully created a camp classic by working closely with his talented star and screenwriter Busch, who gloriously hams it up for the cameras throughout, delivering a constant barrage of pithy one-liners. Priestley, Lyonne, and Sands provide deliciously silly support throughout, culminating in a movie that resembles a version of FAR FROM HEAVEN produced by trashy cult director John Waters.

Credits
Producer:Anthony Edwards, Bill Kenwright, Dante DiLoreto
Cast:Charles Busch, Frances Conroy, Jason Priestley, Natasha Lyonne, Philip Baker Hall, Stark Sands

Notes
DVD Features:

Region [unknown]
Keep Case
Widescreen
Audio:
   Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
Additional Release Material:
   Deleted Scenes
   Audio Commentary - 1. Mark Rucker - Director, Charles Busch - Screenwriter/Star, Jason Priestley - Star
   Introduction - 1. Mark Rucker - Director
   Bonus Feature - 1. "Anatomy of a Scene" Episode: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at DIE MOMMIE DIE!
   Featurette - 1. THE COSTUMES OF DIE MOMMIE DIE!
   Theatrical Trailer
   Trailers - 1. Highlights from the 2003 Sundance Film Series
   Music Video - 1. "Why Not Me?" - Dan-o-Rama Remix
Interactive Features:
   Scene Access
   Interactive Menus
Text/Photo Galleries:
   Stills/Photos
   Poster Art - 1. Gallery of Rejected One-Sheets

Editorial Reviews
"...It makes a jolly absurdist stew out of its sources....[Mr. Busch] exudes a genuine screen charisma. That star quality as much as anything should earn the film a niche in camp heaven..."
New York Times - Stephen Holden (10/31/2003)

"...Hilarious....DIE MOMMIE DIE! has great fun demolishing pretense and the façade of respectability while never hitting a false note..."
Los Angeles Times - Kevin Thomas (10/31/2003)

"...The movie winds up walking a line between put-on pastiche and kitsch passion, and Jason Priestley is perfect..."
Entertainment Weekly - Owen Glieberman (11/07/2003)

"...Busch, as screenwriter and star, is a true goddess..."
Rolling Stone - Peter Travers (11/27/2003)

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    Top Reviews
      Charles Busch Takes Hollywood as Playwright & Actor
    Review created: 04/29/07(updated 05/09/07)
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    bette.davis1908-1989 ( 546)
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    51 of 51 people found this review helpful.

    In Die Mommie Die! Charles Busch, arguably the 20thcentury's more influential leading woman impersonator, stage performer, playwrite who started out as a one man comedy show, then East Side NYC male drag woman impersonator who's been on and off Broadway, now reaches Hollywood playing an aging screen actress (the likes of those he is a perfectionist of immortalizing like Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, and even silent film iconic actresses) Angela Arden, near the end of her career because she's lost her voice, Hollywood's favor, and the love in her marriage.

    In a full and typical Busch slightly dark comedy in cheek, Arden murders her husband in desperation to feel alive again. But her angry children confront her and decide to make their murderer Mommie Dearest face justice even if it includes drugging her with LSD to act like a truth serum.

    Even though I would consider it a slightly dark comedy, Charles Busch is a true performance genius whose pure love for the ladies of the silver screen are at last immortalized in this terrific "must own" historical film.

    Why is it historical? Because Charles Busch has reached the top of his type of acting and writing career. Yet, he started out in the roughest part of NYC doing shows that relied on his sheer wit and incredible flames for campish gender crossing "outcast" comic drama. It's very difficult to describe a Charles Busch performance. So see "Die Mommie Die" since he's in 99% of it!
    There is no guy who performs the elegant ladies gone before him as he expertly well as he does. The cream of the crop!


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