One day people will realize that Mommie Dearest is an incredible film about child abuse. A shame that their powerful performances are written off as simply camp. They perfectly capture the strained and complex relationship between Joan and Christina. Long before Aguilera, Crawford was the original XXXtina, who knew where to find the boys and the booze.ĭunaway and Scarwid have so much tension in their scenes, it pops off the screen. A powerful performance.ĭiana Scarwid wonderfully plays Christina, the troubled adopted daughter who is passive at home but a tramp at school, who lets out her inner whore when she's away from her mother's reign of terror, bringing shame to her mother in front of the headmistress and even more shockingly, in front of a reporter. If we just called her Mother or Mommy, she corrected us over and over and over again. Faye Dunaway gives the performance of a lifetime as Joan Crawford, struggling with mental illness and self-control. In an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, Christina Crawford opened up about the films famous title, saying that, 'Mommie dearest was a term of enslavement.
It's a no-holds-barred look at child abuse. Mommie Dearest is a masterpiece, which doesn't get enough credit.
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