TOP 25 CAMP MOVIES OF ALL TIME - 18

DROP DEAD GORGEOUS

Drop Dead Gorgeous is a crazy mockumentary on American beauty pageants with Kirstie Alley, Ellen Barkin and Kirsten Dunst before she became a raving pisshead.

Set in Minneapolis, the Lutheran community of Mount Rose all compete to be Miss American Teen Princess!! The documentary follows all their lives from trailer trash mortician's make up artist, Amber Atkins to Becky Leeman and her very pushy mother Gladys. Suddenly, contestants get injured or even worse, BLOWN UP on a digger, Amber holds it together and everything comes to a head at the pageant when Amber is beaten by Becky who herself is burnt to shreds at a parade - Gladys goes loopy and confesses that she orchestrated everything for her daughter to win. She then goes on a guerilla style rampage and shoots a newsreader, Amber grabs the microphone and becomes a newsreader like Diane Sawyer, her idol.

It is one crazy film from start to finish - there are alleged paedophile beauty pageant judges, another judge is called a retard a lot, drunk priests, drunks in general, town sluts who have sex on camera, Brittany Murphy is a character who is obsessed with New York and her drag queen brother, Alison Janney is Loretta, Amber's mum's best friend and Kirstie Alley before she really ballooned steals the show as the psycho Gladys. It's a blacker than black comedy - Becky visits the previous Miss Mount Rose, Mary Johannsen who is suffering from anorexia and her hair is falling out so Becky gives her chocolates. Seeing Amber tap dance round dead bodies as she makes them up is outrageous to say the least and Becky being blown up on a paper mache swan is just fabulous.

There are too many great scenes and lines to remember although I always love the scene at the start where the beauty pageant tape is recorded over by one of the organisers with Days Of Our Lives!!

CHOICE WORDS
LORETTA - A rich family in a small town, it makes the papers when one of them takes a shit!

ANNETTE - Who's this?
AMBER - Oh, they're here to see my room and film me for their movie.
ANNETTE - If they ask you to take your top off, get the money first.

BECKY - My mom gave me this 9 mill for my 13th birthday. Yeah. I'll always remember what she put on the card. "Jesus Loves Winners". That's why I always aim to win.

MARY JOHANSSEN - With one week to go before the pageant, I was finishing my outfit, rehearsing my talent, brushing up on current events, and running 18 miles a day on about 400 calories. I was ready.

GLADYS - Hey hey, Miss Penthouse '98, close those legs, I could drive a boat show in there.

LISA - Did you guys know the retard has his pants unzipped?

GLADYS - He sells reproductions! His furniture's as fake as my orgasms!


It's that kind of film - watch and enjoy!