Die Mommie Die! (2003)

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Love the Hard Way

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Rating: R

Release Date: Oct 31, 2003

Running Time: 88 mins.

Country Of Origin: United States

starring: Charles Busch, Frances Conroy, Natasha Lyonne, Jason Priestley, Philip Baker Hall, Nora Dunn, Stark Sands, Victor Raider-Wexler, Sara Gilbert, Angela Paton

director: Mark Rucker

Die Mommie Die

When the curtain rises on Angela Arden--ex-pop singer, mother, lover, and an amalgamation of every screen diva from 1940 to 1968--she is trapped in a hateful marriage with movie producer Sol Sussman. Her affair with out-of-work TV actor Tony Parker comes to a grinding halt when Sol returns from Europe earlier than expected. And when Daddy Sol suddenly dies (some confusion with a poisoned suppository), everyone gets into the act and almost everyone gets a piece of Tony, including Angela's Electra-esque daughter and twisted son.

November 3, 2003

Picture Far From Heaven done as a farce with a drag queen in the Julianne Moore role. Or don't picture it -- Die is still hotly hilarious. Charles Busch, the Broadway playwright (Taboo) and diva, brings high style and dazzling diction to the role of Angela Arden, a washed-up singer whose neurotic daughter, Edith (Natasha Lyonne), is miffed that Angela has killed her rich husband (Philip Baker Hall), who is Edith's daddy. Studly son Lance (Stark Sands) is more forgiving, until mommie gets in bed…