Mommie Dearest (35mm Presentation)

Bar open: 1PM
Trailers & shorts: 1.40PM
Main feature: 2PM
1981 | 129 min | M Violence
Director: Frank Perry
Cast: Faye Dunaway, Diana Scarwid

"Don’t fuck with me, fellas. This ain’t my first time at the rodeo!”

The abusive and traumatic adoptive upbringing of Christina Crawford at the hands of her mother, screen queen Joan Crawford.

In spite of its reputation, and thanks in part to Faye Dunaway's remarkable performance as Crawford, this adaptation of Christina Crawford's memoir about her driven, abusive mother is arguably too good to qualify as camp, even if it begins (and fitfully proceeds) like a horror film.

Director Frank Perry, (The Swimmer) gives it all a certain crazed conviction. As John Waters calls it, "So Good , it’s perfect.”