The film that ruined Faye Dunaway's career and Joan Crawford's reputation. Enjoy!!

 

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I love this movie. It fails in everything it tries to achieve and because of it is just bloody hillerious. Child abuse should not come accross as funny but inbetween Faye overacting every word possible and that young girl screaming throught the whole film "no mammy donnnnnnnnnt" this movie tickled me. "no,,,,,,,,,,,,,, more hangers!"

surely the campest film EVER.

 

Faye Dunaway gives a mesmerising performance - but, it turned out, Faye was basically playing herself - as she, too, is reknowned as being one of the most hideous actresses in the business - not a million miles away from Joan Crawford herself.

 

The book of this movie is even better.

Ive never seen it but after watching this i really want to

Then little Christina, at the end of the outburst, exclaims "Jesus CHRIST!" with the intesity of someone with a lifetime pent up dread, desperation and misery. it KILLS me!!

Personally, I don't believe in all the events Christina Crawford claimed happend. Joan's other adopted children (which aren't even mentioned in the film) don't recall any of what Christina wrote about. I think Christina was spoilt and that Joan was a b!tch but I don't think it was ever as bad as the movie/book made it to be. I have read that Joan actually said she would like Faye Dunaway to play her in a movie? That's so cool! I think Faye was brilliant. I even liked her in Supergirl. The scrips were poor, she wasn't.

 

Something I have always wondered about this movie. The wire hanger scene. Where would Christina have gotten a wire hanger from anyway? She is a child. Nowhere near old enough to do her own clothe's shopping. If there is a wire hanger in her closet its because the nanny or joan put it there. Don't you think?

I love this movie. I think its disturbing but so hillerious. They really skimmed the book though. The film could have actually been more extreme if they followed the book more closley.

Edited September 7, 200618 yr by Ozx