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This isn't to say the film as a whole is particularly good it is, in fact, fairly atrocious in terms of its shoddy set design, tonal inconsistencies and warped sense of pacing but I wasn't able to fully immerse myself in what I had heard was a fun filled, campy misadventure due to the fact that the abuse scenes seemed so inexorably authentic.

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I sat down to watch Mommie Dearest knowing full well of its reputation (this in fact being the reason I was so interested in it) but was puzzled to find myself quite emotionally effected by the scenes of abuse rather than being able to find any sort of humour in them. This supposedly authentic recreation of Christina Crawford's upbringing should be a cautionary tale, an intense insight into the terror that comes along with the emotional and physical abuse of a child but instead the film has come to be perceived as an unintentional comedy, spurred forward by Faye Dunaway's now infamous performance as Crawford and a multitude of instantly quotable one liners that sound like they would be more at home in a Jon Waters film (my favourite being Gregg Savitt's comment on Crawford's drinking - 'When you were a kid that made you look sexy. '.a painful experience that drones on endlessly.' - Roger EbertД«ased on Joan Crawford's adopted daughter's autobiography, Mommie Dearest is an oddity in the annals of cinema, a film which harbours such terrible family secrets and dark, almost taboo, depictions of child abuse that has earned a reputation as a campy, cult classic. Even my moms closest friends can't imagine her being abusive, but I'm the only one that saw that side to her. Of course people who know my mom think I'm crazy that I know my mom is abusive, well abusers are going to look like the perfect parents in public and you have to help your parents keep up that lie. No shit, she isn't going to abuse her kid in front of her friends!!! Also there are pics online of Christina and Joan looking happy together and people think that's enough to prove she wasn't abusive, why tf would there be pics of her abusing Christina? So of course we have outsiders and people who don't live with Joan who are saying she isn't abusive. While acknowledging that Joan was highly ambitious for much of her life, critics have suggested that Christina embellished her story.' Among them were Van Johnson, Cesar Romero, Bob Hope, Barbara Stanwyck, Sydney Guilaroff, Ann Blyth, Gary Gray, and particularly Myrna Loy, Joan's friend since 1925. From wikipedia, 'Some of Joan's friends disputed the version of events presented in Mommie Dearest. Many people thought that Christina was lying for money/attention.

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Behind closed doors her mom was an abusive narcissistic alcoholic, she wrote a book about everything shortly after her mom died and it was made into a movie a while later.

Years later, when I confronted her with her own abusive behavior, she was well practiced in the words and actions of denial.ДЄ lot of us with Nparents are familiar with the story of Mommie Dearest, if you aren't, a girl named Christina was adopted and raised by Joan Crawford, an actress in the 30s/40s.

It wasn't even her abuse, and yet she felt the need to protect it, deny it. Perhaps because she couldn't sweep something that iconic under the rug. The only other thing that stands tall in my memory is how she dismissed all but the most memorable piece of abuse depicted (the beating with the hanger), despite there being many shown in the film, as if she'd not seen any of the other examples. Writing a book and spilling all that family business? After everything her mother did for her, she was just a greedy, ungrateful attention seeker. 'Serves her right! See? Money was all she (the daughter) ever cared about. (Another subconscious, self-protective habit I did with some frequency.) At the end, when the daughter learns the abusive mother has disinherited her, my mother proclaimed a verdict. My mom huffs and rolls her eyes so often in the background, my memory of the film is swiss-cheesed by how often I turned over my shoulder to gauge her reactions. It's the early 90's and Mommy-not-so-dearest and I are watching Mommie Dearest (Joan Crawford bio film- aka 'No wire hangers!') on Turner Classic Movies.

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