Trivia Screenwriter Lona Williams was herself a contestant in local beauty pageants. She appears in the film as the pageant's third, non-speaking judge, Jean. Quotes Amber Atkins : My mom never hid the fact that my dad chose his career over us. Crazy credits referencing Hank's request to be freed from the car door It is the policy of the documentary crew to remain true observers and not interfere with its subjects. User reviews Review. Top review. An outrageous, deliciously bad-taste classic.
From the moment front-runner Tammy Curry Brooke Bushman is blown to pieces on her sabotaged tractor, it's clear this beauty pageant will be fought tooth and nail. And it ain't gonna be pretty.
But for all the sugar-coated spoutings of world peace and harmony hairspray, it's a question of victory by any means necessary - as a roving documentary film crew discovers.
In the Blue Ribbon rhubarb pie corner is Becky Leeman Richards, rich kid daughter of former winner and rabidly proud officiating beauty pageant President Gladys Alley. And in the red, trailer-trash corner is morgue make-up artist Amber Atkins Dunst , championed by her boozy mother Annette Barkin and her mother's morally suspect best friend Loretta Janney.
Casting wise it's spot on, as Alley launches with smiley, viper spitefulness into a beacon of single-minded hypocrisy, and is well matched by Richards, even if she looks the least convincing high school teenager since Stockard Channing's Rizzo enrolled in Rydell High. Dunst meanwhile blossoms into a very accomplished actress, and - together with Barkin and Janney - claims most of the prize lines.
If there's a weakness it's that the mockumentary approach doesn't always work, and the film drags on a little too long after a seemingly natural conclusion. Still, the dark laughs are consistent, and the parody of middle America's bizarre beauty contest fixation is spiked with some jolting shock tactics - from the nurse-assisted wheelchair dance by the reigning anorexic crown holder to Richards' hilarious not to mention blasphemous love song for Jesus - but such blackness never obstructs rooting for Dunst's likable teen.
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Top Gap. What is the Italian language plot outline for Drop Dead Gorgeous ? See more gaps Learn more about contributing. Edit page. See the full list. Most Anticipated Movies Coming in Former winner Gladys Leeman wants to make sure her daughter follows in her footsteps; explosions, falling lights, and trailer fires prove that.
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