MOMMIE DEAREST / Summer Camp!
Wednesday, August 18th at 7:00 p.m.
Regular admission prices
HELLO HAPPY CAMPERS ... WELCOME TO SUMMER CAMP!
Get ready for our completely insane month-long summertime cinemaganza SUMMER CAMP!, featuring some of the coolest, kookiest and craziest camp classics of all time, back on the big screen where they belong! This is one Summer Camp you won’t want to miss, since we’ve got all your camp essentials covered: Giant wigs! Tacky costumes! Wild overacting! Vicious catfights! What more do you want?
PLUS: enjoy a collection of campy musical numbers from Hollywood’s wackiest films before every movie!
But hold on … there's more! Come see all four films in our SUMMER CAMP! series, earn all four of your SUMMER CAMP merit badges (each inspired by that night’s film), and you'll be entered into our FREE RAFFLE for a ridiculously fabulous prize package to be given away on the final night! And quench your campy thirst with our weekly SUMMER CAMP MARTINI DRINK SPECIAL ... this week featuring the MEAN MOMMIE MARTINI! So pick your jaw up off the floor and enroll in SUMMER CAMP now!
MOMMIE DEAREST (1981)
"An over the top masterpiece ... Faye Dunaway as Joan Crawford is one of the greatest movie villains of all time." - CINEMATICAL
"MOMMIE DEAREST is one of those films you really have to see to believe. It’s a seriously guilty pleasure, one that has achieved cult status as one of the most enduring audience participation films, attended by fans adorned in white robes, garish face cream, and wielding – you guessed it – wire hangers. Move over Frank-N-Furter!" - DVD REVIEW
"Meet the biggest MOTHER of them all!"
The movie that made "No wire hangers!" a household phrase, MOMMIE DEAREST is the gold standard of modern day camp classics, a film so crazy, outlandish and utterly off-the-rails that it's a fascinating glimpse into what happens when Hollywood gets it totally wrong (even though it feels so right).
Based on the scathing, scandalous tell-all bestseller by Christina Crawford, the adopted daughter of histrionic Hollywood movie queen Joan Crawford, MOMMIE DEAREST was billed in advance as a seriously dramatic movie biopic. But luckily enough, it turned out to be something much, much weirder--a genuine Hollywood oddity that serves up a bizarre mixture of melodramatic trash and outrageous tragi-comedy. Whether you'll laugh, cry or cringe while watching it all depends upon your own personal issues.
The real Joan Crawford won an Oscar for playing the role of the self-sacrificing mother, the woman who would do anything for her daughter, in the 1945 film Mildred Pierce. As depicted by Faye Dunaway (attacking the role as if she's trying to strangle a walrus with her bare mitts ... and win another Oscar of her own in the process, damn it!), Joan's role as the ultimate off-screen parent-from-hell puts her in a league with big-time scary screen mommies such as Mrs. Bates in Psycho, and Angela Lansbury's über-mom in The Manchurian Candidate. Dunaway's Crawford torments and terrorizes her adopted children in myriad ways--making them give away their own birthday gifts, rousting them from their beds for frantic after-midnight bathroom-scrubbing attacks, and even enlisting their help in violently chopping up the family rose garden after a particularly taxing day in the Hollywood trenches ("Tina ... bring me the axe!"). And when, after the death of her Pepsico chairman husband, Crawford tells the board of directors, "Don't f--- with me, fellas ... this ain't my first time at the rodeo!," one is definitely inclined to heed her warning. In a word, "Wow."