The acting and some of the art direction are over the top, so even in its darkest moments, this is a hard film to take completely seriously. It paints Joan Crawford as a monster, and, watching this, you’re constantly wondering what diabolical thing she’s going to do next. Unintentionally, Mommie Dearest is a lot of fun to watch. Joan has unrealistic expectations of her kids and has spells of explosive anger when the kids behave like kids instead of the portrait of perfection she was wanting. Because it’s the 1930s and women have kids? Joan is eager to welcome these two adopted kids into her home, but she has her share of problems. The plot follows Joan Crawford, a well-known movie star of the classic era, as she adopts two kids because, well, we don’t really know. In fact, prominent film critic Roger Ebert opens up his review by saying, “I can’t imagine who would want to subject themselves to this movie.” But this is one of those rare films that aspired to greatness, but ended up passing into so-bad-it’s-good territory instead. Mommie Dearest is a 1981 biographical drama film about classic film star Joan Crawford.
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