Storyline
In a small Minnesota town, the annual beauty pageant is being covered by a TV crew. Former winner Gladys Leeman wants to make sure her daughter follows in her footsteps; explosions, falling lights, and trailer fires prove that. As the Leemans are the richest family in town, the police are pretty relaxed about it all. Despite everything, main rival (but sweet) Amber Atkins won't give up without a fight.
Directors
Cast
Thomas Lennon, Mindy Sterling, Amanda Detmer, Brittany Murphy, Nora Dunn, Allison Janney, Amy Adams, Will Sasso, Matt Malloy, Denise Richards, Ellen Barkin, Richard Ooms, Sam McMurray, Michael McShane, Kirsten Dunst, Adam West, Kirstie Alley, Alexandra Holden, Seiko Matsuda, Richard Narita, Patti Yasutake
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Reviews
80
Occasionally heavy-handed and overdone -- and scarcely free from a self-congratulatory tone -- this latest spoof is nonetheless lots of fun, clever and fearless, and loaded with wicked lines and touches.
63
ReelViews
Although the satire is biting and the tone is irreverent, Drop Dead Gorgeous lacks the killer script and top notch performances necessary to make this a wholly successful production.
58
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
The script starts repeating its best gags about halfway through, and the direction gets ever broader as it goes along until the film finally loses all effectiveness as satire.
50
Chicago Sun-Times
The script must have been a funny read. It's the movie that somehow never achieves takeoff speed.
40
Screenwriter Lona Williams doesn't seem to have gotten much beyond the petty absurdity of theme headdresses and ludicrous talent competitions.
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