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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.
Breathtakingly beautiful. What's the origin of the phrase 'Drop-dead Gorgeous'? “Drop-dead gorgeous” has been with us in print since at least the 1970s and may have been in use as street slang well before that. A report of a concert given by Sonny and Cher at the Hirsch Coliseum, printed in the Shreveport Times, October 1972, says:
Drop Dead Gorgeous: Directed by Michael Patrick Jann. With Kirsten Dunst, Ellen Barkin, Allison Janney, Denise Richards. A small-town beauty pageant turns deadly as it becomes clear that someone will go to any lengths to win.
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- Comedy, Romance, Thriller
- Michael Patrick Jann
- 1999-07-23
- How The 1999 Movie ‘Drop Dead Gorgeous’ Gained A Cult Following
- The Movie Isn’T Streaming on Any Major Platforms
- The ‘Drop Dead Gorgeous’ Cast Thrilled Moviegoers with The Dark Comedy
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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Jul 23, 2014 · Similarly to Jawbreaker, which also came out in 1999, Drop Dead Gorgeous proved to be a pivotal film — introducing audiences to Amy Adams, making use of the mockumentary style — even if it was...
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...
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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.
