What was mommy dearest about

Goofs During opening sequence set in late Thirties, a sightseeing tour bus drives past with an illustration of the famous Hollywood sign on its side. Quotes Joan Crawford : Why can't you give me the respect that I'm entitled to?

User reviews Review. Top review. There is another Joan in town. Have you seen Feud? Where Jessica Lange plays Joan Crawford and gives her all the humanity in all its infuriating contradictions.

It made me see What Ever Happened To Baby Jane - it was like watching it for the first time, after "Feud" - and now "Mommie Dearest" - Oh dear, Oh dear - It's not that Faye Dunaway is not very entertaining, she is, but her Joan is a one note, maybe one note and a half, a caricature trying to be taken seriously.

Was that the intention or was it an accident? Mankiewicz asked her about it. Was it a demand from the star, not to touch the subject?

Mommie Dearest, the film is like an amateur movie made by professionals. FAQ 2. How faithful is this movie to the book, and is it an accurate portrayal of real events? Details Edit. Release date September 25, United States.

United States. Meine liebe Rabenmutter. Paramount Pictures. Box office Edit. Technical specs Edit. Runtime 2 hours 9 minutes. Related news. Christina laughs very loudly at this. To say the least! She would later work in corporate communications. Did she think the rapprochement was real? She was an alcoholic. She was ill. She was drug-addicted. Then she died. Christina was so furious she went straight to her desk and started writing down everything that had happened in her childhood. It was blaming the messenger for the bad news.

Most of them are dead now; I have outlived all of them! And I never replied to any of them, or responded. I simply stuck to the message that I knew to be the truth. Her two younger siblings disputed the book, too, not unusual in an abusive family. And that took me forward on a wave of faith. The ripple effect is still being felt. Look at Ohio State, with the athletes. Look at Penn State [where the abusive football coach, Jerry Sandusky, was convicted of 45 counts of child sexual abuse].

This is right now. If she could change one law, it would be the statute of limitations. Some have Crawford then made Christina wear the dress for a week in order to humiliate her. Christina says she was once starved for days when she refused to eat an undercooked steak that was still bloody, all in a bid for her mother to further control her.

At Christmas, the children were photographed as being gifted tons of items. But they were only allowed to choose one thing to keep while the rest were given away to charity or saved to be re-gifted.

The kids then had to write thank you cards for each and every gift, and those cards were meticulously edited by Crawford. When Christina was 13 years old, she supposedly suffered one final brutal beating from her mother, in which she thought she was going to be choked out.

Crawford attacked her daughter once more after that incident when she thought Christina was making a pass at her husband, Alfred Steele.

She claims her mother never contacted her or addressed the situation afterwards.