Frank Perry
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Plus, Paper Towns (the title refers to an ancient practice of mapmakers to insert fake names in order to prevent plagiarism) has its own rhythms, somewhat reminiscent of past coming-of-age films like Stand By Me and Frank Perry’s classic Last Summer in which the main characters experience the last pangs of youthful security before heading out into uncharted territories alone in the cruel world.
Snow White and the Huntsman (2012)
Directed by Rupert Sanders
influenced by Mommie Dearest (1981)
Characters
But without an experienced director brave enough to tell the Oscar-winner when to say when, she chews the scenery at a rate so voracious you can’t help recalling Faye Dunaway’s shameless vamping in “Mommie Dearest.”
When an actress goes this far out on a highly theatrical ledge—think Faye Dunaway in Mommie Dearest —critics are usually waiting with their penknives, ready to skewer the performance as camp.
What Movies Will It Remind You Of?: Director Aneesh Chaganty nurtures some good Baby Jane / Misery / Carrie / Mommie Dearest vibes here.
Not since Faye Dunaway immortalized the phrase "No more wire hangers!" in "Mommie Dearest" has an actress delivered as delirious a line at as high a decibel level and with as much sincerity.
Diana Scarwid (1981's "Mommie Dearest") is vibrantly unconventional, but sorely underused, as Claire's best friend, Jody.
Or maybe it's in every single moment that Theresa Russell, as Kelly's alcoholic mother, shows up to impersonate Kathleen Turner playing Joan Crawford in a Miami Mommie Dearest.
You have to go back to Faye Dunaway screaming “No more wire hangers!” as Joan Crawford in “Mommie Dearest” to get a line reading like Lawrence’s “You sent me to whore school!”
Only God Forgives (2013)
Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn
influenced by Mommie Dearest (1981)
Characters
Easily one of the nastiest matriarchs in cinema history, Crystal is as ruthless as Jacki Weaver's Mama Smurf in Animal Kingdom , and as imperious as Faye Dunaway in Mommie Dearest , but way nastier than either.
Once in Wonderland (whose real name is the more appropriate Underland), Alice comes across all the familiar characters, including Tweedledee and Tweedledum (both played by a heavily CGI-ed Matt Lucas), the grinning Cheshire Cate (voiced by Stephen Fry), Absalom, the hookah-smoking blue caterpillar (voiced by Alan Rickman), and, of course, the Mad Hatter, who is played by Johnny Depp in bizarre yellow contact lenses, white pancake make-up, and a fright wig of shockingly red hair (he looks like a truly nightmarish version of Faye Dunaway at her worst in Mommie Dearest).
Mila Kunis is the real surprise, nearly stealing the whole movie with only a handful of scenes, while Barbara Hershey (doing her best “Mommie Dearest” impression) and Winona Ryder are equally effective in limited roles.
But she can also pop by at just the right moment — as when Nina is having a Mommie Dearest run-in with her mother and Lily offers her an opportunity to escape to a wild night of roofies and girl-on-girl sex.
Erica’s psychotic tendencies are barely repressed behind a veneer of motherly caring that frequently cracks into Mommie Dearest-style tantrums and attempts at total control.
That these feelings are probably closer on the movie moms spectrum to "Mommie Dearest" or "The Manchurian Candidate" than "Almost Famous" or "Terms of Endearment" doesn't diminish their legitimacy.
Eat your heart out, “Mommie Dearest”!
As a high-schooler, I watched teenagers get butchered in I Know What You Did Last Summer and Scream with considerable . . .
The film is something of a mixture of Stanley Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange” and “Mommie Dearest” in some respects.
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019)
Directed by Quentin Tarantino
influenced by Mommie Dearest (1981)
Anyone who's seen “Mommie Dearest” will know immediately what's taking place in this early scene, set in February 1969, of “Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood,” Quentin Tarantino's ninth and, by his estimation, next to last feature.
Just a few months later comes the yin to Greta ’s yang with Ma , and even aside from the Mommie Dearest riffs and punchlines in the form of perverted maternity, the two are rather complementary.
Just as likely, some will watch the film in Mommie Dearest mode, eager to soak up the theatrical camp and glamour that star Lady Gaga can’t help exuding, even when she’s stripped of her Mother Monster affectations.
Metcalf never goes full Mommie Dearest, however — Lady Bird and her mom are at loggerheads frequently, yet there’s such a depth to the opinionated matriarch as she becomes the family's primary breadwinner that you’re on her side as well.
The latter is like “Mommie Dearest” mixed with the Joker, a ghoul big enough to fight the movie’s undeniably big heart.
3. Bargaining with Eddie Redmayne's Campy Performance: Is future Oscar-winner Eddie Redmayne really pulling off a Foxcatcher / Mommie Dearest hybrid or is all his screaming, sweating, and sighing a showy charade?
The monstrous mother figure is not an uncommon trope in film, whether it’s Cinderella, Carrie or whatever Mommie Dearest was supposed to be.