Drop Dead Gorgeous
In a small Minnesota town, the annual beauty pageant is being covered by a TV crew. Former winner Gladys…
- Director:Michael Patrick Jann
- Genre:Comedy
- Runtime:98 minutes
Cast
Kirsten Dunst : Amber Atkins
Ellen Barkin : Annette Atkins
Allison Janney : Loretta
Denise Richards : Rebecca ‘Becky’ Ann Leeman
Kirstie Alley : Gladys Leeman
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Many Mount Rose girls compete in the pageant simply to have something to do while others seek to win the scholarship money to leave the small dead end down of Mount Rose. One of such contestants, Amber Atkins, does it in order to be more like her idol, Diane Sawyer. Rebecca Leeman is the daughter of the richest man in town, and her mother, Gladys Leeman, is not only the head of the pageant organizing committee but also a former winner. Various business connections between the Leeman Furniture Store and the judges of the pageant (one is an employee) prompt many whispers around town that the contest will be fixed.
Many odd things start happening to people in the run up to the pageant; one of the contestants, Tammy Curry, is blown up while riding a tractor. Brett Clemmens, Rebecca’s love interest (who is more interested in Amber), is shot dead in a “hunting accident.” Fearing for her life, Amber decides to pull out of the pageant after her mother, Annette, is injured during an explosion at their mobile home. After a pep-talk with family friend Loretta and a heart-to-heart with her mother, Amber reconsiders. At the dress rehearsal, fellow contestant Jenelle Betz (originally contestant number 8), swaps positions with Amber (originally contestant number 1). When Jenelle walks on stage at the beginning of rehearsal to perform her talent piece, a stage light falls and hits her in the head, knocking her unconscious and causing her to become deaf, which in a twist of irony, makes her happy, as prior to the incident she longed to help deaf children.
At the pageant (despite her tap costume going missing), Amber performs her tap-dance number to a standing ovation, while Rebecca Leeman sings (appallingly badly) and dances with a Jesus doll on a rolling crucifix. Though Amber gains an outfit that replaced the one that mysteriously disappeared, she only ends up first runner up to Rebecca. However, during the victory parade the next day, Rebecca Leeman, in an elaborate swan float designed by her mother and constructed by her father’s Mexican workers, is incinerated in a freak accident caused by Gladys lighting the fireworks at the base of the swan. Standing by the burnt-out float, the grief-stricken Gladys admits to killing Tammy and to being responsible for all the attempts against Amber in the run-up to the pageant in order to get rid of all of Rebecca’s competition. She is then arrested. Read more
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