Our favorite scene: Joan Crawford dazedly replacing her ailing daughter in the cast of a daytime TV soap opera. Surprisingly, one emerges from Mommie Dearest with more sympathy for the monstrous but intensely vulnerable Crawford than for her whining daughter (played as an adult by Diana Scarwid, and as a child by Mara Hobel). This is the film with the notorious "wire coat hanger" scene, just in case you need a reminder.
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the movie is too campy and undisciplined to transcend guilty pleasure. According to the film (and the book that preceded it), Joan Crawford was a licentious, child-beating behemoth, who stalked and postured through life as though it was one of her own pictures-more Strait-jacket than Mildred Pierce. In this biographical film, glamorous yet lonely star Joan Crawford (Faye Dunaway). The 1981 film version of this tome was evidently meant to be taken seriously, but the operatic direction by Frank Perry and the over-the-top portrayal of Joan Crawford by Faye Dunaway (whose makeup is remarkable) has always seemed to inspire loud laughter whenever and where-ever the film is shown. But the longer they're in the house, the more it appears their lives are in danger.When her adoptive mother Joan Crawford died in 1977, erstwhile actress/author Christina Crawford and her brother Christopher were left out of Joan Crawford's will, "for reasons which are well known to them." Industryites have suggested that it may have been this posthumous act of rejection rather than an alleged lifetime of parental abuse that inspired Christina Crawford to pen her scathing autobiography Mommie Dearest. Did Frank murder them? Would he do the same to Autumn? If she tells her daughter, Scarlett will be kicked out and be completely unable to protect her. Travelling through Frank's fragmented memories, Scarlett discovers the source of his pain may be murder! Now Scarlett must unravel a mystery involving Frank and his previous tenants, ANGEL, a girl who enraptured Frank with her beautiful voice, and MATTHEW BRADLEY, her boyfriend whom Frank hated. But whatever spirit lingers in the house increases the therapy's intensity, whirling Scarlett into Frank's memories with each therapy session. Scarlett employs a special form of massage therapy-Cranial Sacral-to find the source of Frank's pain and release it. Is the house haunted or are her medications causing hallucinations? Should Scarlett heed his warnings or is her neighbor crazy? Frank suffers from intense pain in his hands that is taking away his ability to play the piano, which is his passion and livelihood.
Scarlett quickly finds horror in her new living arrangement as she starts seeing a ghostly figure and receives a warning from a strange neighbor, QUINTON JONESBORO (32) to get out of the house. Scarlett may have to choose between getting kicked out of her daughter's life and saving it as moving into the house leads to a journey of suspense, mystery, spine-tingling discoveries about Frank and the people who have been killed in the house.
Scarlett cannot interfere with Autumn's relationship and find something wrong with Autumn's new boyfriend, as she has a habit of doing. There's one condition to the arrangement. After an injury puts SCARLETT HEALY (35) in a wheelchair, she moves in with her daughter, AUTUMN (19), who just moved into a creepy old house with her boyfriend, FRANK THRUSSEL (30).
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