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      • 25 years later, Drop Dead Gorgeous has all the makings of a cult classic: a to-die-for cast that bounces off each other like the best trampoline you’ve ever been on, punchy dialogue that makes you laugh until you sob, and just enough outdated humor and nostalgia to make you appreciate “the good ol’ days.”
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  2. Jul 22, 2024 · IndieWire talks to 'Drop Dead Gorgeous' director Michael Patrick Jann and stars Denise Richards and Mindy Sterling about the cult classic at 25.

    • 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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  3. 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...

  4. Jan 6, 2023 · Similar to the trajectory of other cult-classics like Dazed and Confused and Jennifer’s Body, Drop Dead Gorgeous rose to prominence through a slow burn of discovery, a flame kept alive by its mostly female & queer audiences. Why is it that criticism often speaks louder than an audience’s cheers anyway?

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  5. Jan 17, 2022 · With great gags, an extraordinary cast, and a clever script based in lived experience, Drop Dead Gorgeous may not have earned the viewership it deserved when first released, but with each passing year, its reputation as a cult classic of mockumentary form has grown.

  6. Jul 23, 2019 · Drop Dead Gorgeous was a whole other beast, using mockumentary-style filming to tell a bizarro tale of small-town pageant girls trying their best to not get killed by a crazed pageant mom.

  7. 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.