About Drop Dead Gorgeous
Ever since the vivacious but vicious former beauty queen Gladys Leeman (Kirstie Alley) has been pushing her charm-challenged daughter, Rebecca (Denise Richards), to win at all costs, the competition has been dropping like flies. Between exploding tractors and deadly hunting accidents, it’s a wonder the top challenger, poor Amber Atkins (Kirsten Dunst), has the courage to keep her tap shoes on. But after Amber’s mother (Ellen Barkin) is injured in a suspicious trailer park beauty shop bombing, Amber is determined to fight to the finish—and the battle between good and the bad is about to get ugly! [99 min; mockumentary, comedy, satire; English]
“Acerbic and hilariously un-PC, Drop Dead Gorgeous stands the test of time as one of the best comedies ever made.” — Trace Thurman, Horror Queers podcast
"So genuinely, viciously funny you can't help laughing—even when you feel really bad about yourself for doing so." — Mary Elizabeth Williams, Salon
"The smile of a beauty queen, the glinting crown and the heaps of flowers, always holds the faint scent of bloodlust, and a whisper of the grave." — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker
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