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- In the same year, Drop Dead Gorgeous, a dark comedy about teenage girls competing in a local Minnesota beauty pageant, bombed at the box office. Unable to capture the same excitement as American Pie or 10 Things I Hate About You, the film quickly disappeared from theaters after earning a dismal $10.5 million at the box office.
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Drop Dead Gorgeous is a 1999 American satirical mockumentary black comedy film directed by Michael Patrick Jann and written by Lona Williams. It stars Kirsten Dunst, Ellen Barkin, Brittany Murphy, Allison Janney, Denise Richards, Kirstie Alley, and Amy Adams in her film debut.
Oct 22, 2020 · Contestant Tammy Curry (Brooke Elise Bushman) dies in a fiery thresher accident, Amber’s crush, Brett (Casey Tyler Garven), is shot in the head, and Annette barely survives an explosion after which...
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Jan 17, 2022 · As a genre, mockumentaries made little impact at the box office but nonetheless garnered critical acclaim and cult status among fervent devotees. Drop Dead Gorgeous was no exception, failing to crack the top 10 on its opening and barely earning back its modest $15 million budget.
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In a 15th-anniversary profile of Drop Dead Gorgeous, BuzzFeedtraced how the movie, released in 1999 to rough box office sales and middling reviews, ended up becoming a cult classic film. As the publication outlined: However, the comedy movie has stood the test of time. ” … audiences over the past decade and a half have come to appreciate the unfair...
While Drop Dead Gorgeousfinally arrived on Hulu in 2019, the movie doesn’t appear to be available on any major streaming platforms currently (Amazon Prime, Netflix, or Hulu). However, the DVD is still on sale. The elusiveness of the film is part of what added to the cult-ish attitude surroundingit. As BuzzFeed confirmed, its legacy “didn’t end with...
The content of the movie — whose comedy tends to get quite bleak — also contributed to the cult fanbase. Darren Stein, the director of Jawbreaker(another cult classic film), told BuzzFeed that many cult films “go to a place that regular studio films don’t go to that’s usually darker, edgier, and more forbidden.” “It’s a truth-telling in a way that ...
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- Kirsten Dunst (Amber Atkins) Dunst was perfectly cast as Amber Atkins, the deserving underdog of the pageant world who tap danced into the hearts of many.
- Amy Adams (Leslie Miller) Fun fact: Amy Adams' role as promiscuous and a little bit pregnant (but don't tell her boyfriend) Leslie in Drop Dead Gorgeous was the A-lister's film debut.
- Ellen Barkin (Annette Atkins) Barkin was already a Golden Globe-nominated actress when she starred as former beauty queen Annette Atkins, who ends up with a hook for a hand after an explosion that was meant for her daughter (played by Dunst).
- Allison Janney (Loretta) That's “Academy Award, Emmy, BAFTA and Golden Globe Award-winning actress Allison Janney” to you! After playing trailer trash/pseudo-mother figure Loretta, Janney continued to impress the world with her character acting.
Jul 23, 2014 · The year kicked off with two unexpected box office successes, Varsity Blues and She’s All That, before studios started pumping out hit after hit. In the same year, Drop Dead Gorgeous, a dark...
Jul 23, 2019 · Drop Dead Gorgeous, the cult beauty pageant comedy that turns 20 today, was made for a generation of freaks and outsiders, whose ambitions, oddities, queerness and poverty were otherwise...
