Drop Dead Gorgeous

Starring: Ellen Barkin, Kirsten Dunst Director: Michael Patrick Jann Original UK Premiere: 1999 Dvd Release: 13th March, 2000 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: Full Screen, PAL, Widescreen, Region 2 Encoding

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Drop Dead Gorgeous was a film originally released in 1999. It starred Denise Richards & Kirsten Dunst as rivals in a beauty pageant called the Mount Rose American Teen Princess Pageant, in the small town of Mount Rose, Minnesota. The film is a fictitious documentary covering the pageant. Many girls in the small town decide to compete in the pageant, because theyre in a small town & there isnt much else for them to do. Amber Atkins wishes to win the scholarship money which comes with winning the title, so she can leave Mount Rose & live a life similar to her idol, Diane Sawyer. Rebecca Leeman is the daughter of the richest man in town & her mother is the head of the pageant in the town. This prompts many whispers around town that the contest is fixed. Many odd things start happening to people in the pageant, including rival Tammy Curry being blown up while riding a tractor & Ambers love interest shooting himself accidentally. Finally, Amber decides to pull out of the pageant after her mother is injured due to a bomb exploding in their trailer. Posters Of Drop Dead Gorgeous

Subtle is not the word to describe Drop Dead Gorgeous, a mock documentary purporting to cover the Sarah Rose Cosmetics Teen America Beauty Pageant in Mount Rose, Minnesota. Ellen Barkin & Kirsten Dunst are perfectly cast as a mother & daughter whose only ambition is to use the pageant to get out of their claustrophobic small-town lives. Opposing them are Denise Richards & her mother, Kirstie Alley , who just happens to be the pageants organizer. The plot, which centres on contestants being murdered , is clearly secondary to the backstage shenanigans & satirical portrayals of vanity, small-town corruption, & family dysfunction. Theres not much suspense to the pageant itself, but Dunst is an endearing protagonist & along with the broad jokes are some excellent acting turns from the cast, particularly Barkin, Brittany Murphy , Nora Dunn , & the great character actress Allison Janney, whos played small roles in countless movies but finally gets a chance to shine as the supportive neighbour of Barkin & Dunst. In fact, for all the jokes & satirical jabs, in the end its the characters relationships that stay in your mind. As an added bonus, the soundtrack features a hard-rocking version of the theme from The Mary Tyler Moore Show, performed with cool aplomb by Joan Jett & the Blackhearts. , Bret Fetzer, , This text refers to the VHS edition of this video

Kirsten Caroline Dunst is an American actress / singer. She began her career at the age of three appearing in television commercials. She also appeared as an extra on one episode of NBC s Saturday Night Live. She later made the transition to the big screen in her first film appearance, New York Stories, in 1989 & soon after landed a small part playing the daughter of Tom Hanks s character in The Bonfire of the Vanities, which also starred Melanie Griffith & Bruce Willis. Her breakthrough was in Interview with the Vampire, the film based on the Anne Rice novel of the same name & directed by Neil Jordan. This movie features the frowned-upon-scene in which Dunst, then aged eleven, had to kiss Brad Pitt, who was then twenty nine. Her most famous performance to date was as Mary Jane Watson in Spider-Man, reprised in Spider-Man 2. She won the 2002 Best Actress Silver Ombú at the Mar de Plata Film Festival for her performance as Marion Davies in Peter Bogdanovich s The Cats Meow. She & actor Jake Gyllenhaal recently broke up after dating for two years. Posters Of Kirsten Dunst

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