Drop Dead Gorgeous
An annual beauty pageant in small-town Minnesota turns ridiculously competitive and ultimately chaotic when mothers of two contestants decide they will stop at nothing to help each one's respective child win the contest.
11 July 1953, Paterson, New Jersey, USA
20 August 1974, Vicenza, Veneto, Italy
16 September 1971, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
19 November 1959, Dayton, Ohio, USA
July 25, 2015
Too caustic to be as funny as it easily should be with this scenario and in some cases these exact lines of dialogue.
January 01, 2000
The spicy, fast-paced script is salt-and-peppered with zany zingers.
January 01, 2000
Gorgeous is one of the year's funniest acts of malice!
January 01, 2000
There are laughs: the leering judges, especially, who don't know much when it comes to talent but are impressed with nubile young girls flexing their limbs.
January 01, 2000
Viciously funny!
January 01, 2000
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.
January 01, 2000
Beneath its mean-spiritedness is a sharp-clawed wit.
January 01, 2000
Fitfully amusing!
June 23, 2002
Williams, however, thinks we should be tickled just by the mere mention of cow-tipping, lutefisk and Melissa Manchester. ... Poor people living in trailer parks and wearing polyester -- pretty witty stuff, this.
January 01, 2000
Humorously effective!
January 01, 2000
Allison Janney is tacky incarnate as Barkin's good-time gal pal.
January 01, 2000
Charmingly hilarious!
