"Drop Dead Gorgeous" (1999)

#1

"Drop Dead Gorgeous" (1999)

Posted: 3/29/08 at 3:12am

I watched this movie for the first time a week ago and thought it was pretty funny. Since watching it in its entirety, I have gone back and watched a few scenes which seemed to grow on me, and now I am a little bit obsessed with the movie.

It's interesting to see today's famous actresses 10 years ago. Denise Richards, Brittany Murphy and even Amy Adams (I didn't even recognize her)!!

Anyone else love this movie? Hate it?

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#2

re: 'Drop Dead Gorgeous' (1999)

Posted: 3/29/08 at 3:14am

Drop Dead Gorgeous is HILLARIOUS. I love it so much.

#3

re: 'Drop Dead Gorgeous' (1999)

Posted: 3/29/08 at 3:16am

Ha, I forgot about that movie. I think I own it actually...

and yeah, it pretty much rocks.

#4

re: 'Drop Dead Gorgeous' (1999)

Posted: 3/29/08 at 3:35am

I love that movie.
It's very funny and cracks me up
So many wonderful performances: An early role for Amy Adams, Brittany Murphy and Kristen Dunst and Denise Richards.

So many funny lines in that movie.

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Updated On: 3/29/08 at 03:35 AM

#5

re: 'Drop Dead Gorgeous' (1999)

Posted: 3/29/08 at 3:39am

Allison Janney is BRILLIANT

#6

re: 'Drop Dead Gorgeous' (1999)

Posted: 3/29/08 at 9:38am

One of my favorites! I pretty much have the whole movie memorized and always seem to find situations where I want to quote it.

Literally the first time I laughed so hard at a movie that I fell off of my couch. "You're just to good to be true..."

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#7

re: 'Drop Dead Gorgeous' (1999)

Posted: 3/29/08 at 10:31am

I was crowned Mount Rose American Teen Princess in 1945. We were fighting the Japs. Didn't even get to keep my damn tiara. Had to turn it in for scrap!


I know what some of your big-city, no-bra-wearin', hairy-legged women's libbers might say.


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#8

re: 'Drop Dead Gorgeous' (1999)

Posted: 3/29/08 at 11:01am

Adore this movie! Allison Janney and Kirsten Dunst's mother (ellen?) are completly brillant!

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#9

re: 'Drop Dead Gorgeous' (1999)

Posted: 3/29/08 at 11:08am

One of my all time favorites!!!!

Allison Janney is pure brilliance.

"This is my brother as Liza"

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#10

re: 'Drop Dead Gorgeous' (1999)

Posted: 3/29/08 at 12:19pm

hehe, yeah this is definitely a guilty pleasure of mine when it comes on TV

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#11

re: 'Drop Dead Gorgeous' (1999)

Posted: 3/29/08 at 3:00pm

I just discovered this movie a few weeks ago! I have yet to see the entire thing because every time I catch it on TV, its nearing the end.

#12

re: 'Drop Dead Gorgeous' (1999)

Posted: 3/29/08 at 3:44pm

I absolutely love this movie. The first time I saw it (in theatres), I fell off my chair. I feel obligated to sit and watch it whenever it's on TV.

#13

re: 'Drop Dead Gorgeous' (1999)

Posted: 3/29/08 at 4:05pm

Great movie!


"Oh no, my mom never kept a secret of the fact my dad chose his career over us. What was it she used to say? Once a carnie, always a carnie. Mom still cries every time she sees a tilt-a-whirl or a fat lady in a tube top."

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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be enbered with your old nonsense. ~ Emerson

#14

re: 'Drop Dead Gorgeous' (1999)

Posted: 3/29/08 at 5:03pm

What a coincidence! I just borrowed this from a friend and watched it on Thursday!

Ellen Barkin and Allison Janney are my favorites (Amber's mother and the mother's best friend).

And Allison Janney definitely has my favorite lines.

*SPOILERS AHEAD*

Like when all the girls are vomiting off the balconies of the hotel, she walks out of her room with a man and says, "do you think they heard us?" Or when she gets on the news and proudly announces "I got some!" Or when Amber tells her mother that they'll be following the ambulance in the hearse, and she says "Don't let that scare you." HILARIOUS.

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#15

re: 'Drop Dead Gorgeous' (1999)

Posted: 3/29/08 at 7:01pm

I had no idea that was Amy Adams until now. I love the movie, but I never made the connection.

I think the best part is the first 15 minutes, when they're introducing all the contestants. The Asian American girl is so wrong.

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#16

re: 'Drop Dead Gorgeous' (1999)

Posted: 3/29/08 at 7:03pm

"So what was the theme of last year's pagent?"
"Oh, that was Buy American!"
"And the year before that?"
"USA is A-OK!"
"And can you remember the theme of your favorite pagent?"
"Can I?? Ameri-I-Can! People ask me where I get this. It's just a gift from God or somethin', I don't know."

"They're never gonna let you perform naked, I asked."

"Harold, are we on Cops? Are we on Cops, Harold?"

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"You're the worst thing to happen to musical theatre since Andrew Lloyd Webber!" --Family Guy

"Shut up! It's been 29 years!!!" --the incomparable Patti LuPone in her MUCH DESERVED Tony acceptance speech for Gypsy.

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#17

re: 'Drop Dead Gorgeous' (1999)

Posted: 3/29/08 at 7:13pm

"Speak Engrish!!! You Stupid Rittle Retard!!!"

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#18

re: 'Drop Dead Gorgeous' (1999)

Posted: 3/29/08 at 7:34pm

My personal favorite :

"Well I'll tell you one thing, Peter would've never pulled a shenanigan like this!"

"Well you know what, Dad? You know what? Peter's gay.......*screams* GAY!"

"What?"

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#19

re: 'Drop Dead Gorgeous' (1999)

Posted: 3/29/08 at 8:30pm

I adore this movie.

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

"Yeah, well, if they ask you to take your top off, get the money first."

"What, did they have a sale on dull needles at K-Mart?"
"I just need one more do-over!"

#20

re: 'Drop Dead Gorgeous' (1999)

Posted: 3/29/08 at 11:02pm

I love this movie! Used to watch it all the time.... I will have to watch it again!

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"B*tch, I don't know your life." -Xanadu After that if he still doesn't understand why you were uncomfortable and are now infuriated, kick him again but this time with Jazz Hands!!! -KillerTofu

#21

re: 'Drop Dead Gorgeous' (1999)

Posted: 3/30/08 at 11:28am

"She's Anorexic, Amber. Not Deaf!"

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"I'm an American, Damnit!!! And if it's three things I don't believe in, it's quitting and math."

#22

re: 'Drop Dead Gorgeous' (1999)

Posted: 3/30/08 at 11:45am

haha, we watched it last night. My friends and I all laughed especially hard at the "Peter is gay.... GAY!!!" line. LOVE it :)

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"If it walks like a Parks, if it wobbles like a Parks, then it's definitely fat and nobody loves it." --MA

#23

re: 'Drop Dead Gorgeous' (1999)

Posted: 3/30/08 at 1:21pm

"I'm a winner. No one's gonna stop me.........but me.



KABOOM!!!!!!

aw, poor unibrowed lesbian.

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"I'm an American, Damnit!!! And if it's three things I don't believe in, it's quitting and math."

#24

re: 'Drop Dead Gorgeous' (1999)

Posted: 3/30/08 at 1:27pm

"Sidewalks, Father Gulligan! Sidewalks! Oh now Gladys. It's not his fault. The communal wine just proves too tempting for some of 'em."
"That's why we Lutherans use grape Kool-Aid for the blood of Christ."

"I went and saw her yesterday. Oh, she's super happy. Yeah, the blow to her head made her deaf!"

"My baby! The swan ate my baby!!!"

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"You're the worst thing to happen to musical theatre since Andrew Lloyd Webber!" --Family Guy

"Shut up! It's been 29 years!!!" --the incomparable Patti LuPone in her MUCH DESERVED Tony acceptance speech for Gypsy.

Kitzy's Avatar du Jour: Kitzy as Little Red Ridinghood in her college's production of "Into the Woods"

#25

re: 'Drop Dead Gorgeous' (1999)

Posted: 3/30/08 at 1:58pm

I just may pop this in for an afternoon viewing.

I love when the drama girl does her one-woman "Soylent Green" performance.

"Scene!"

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"I'm an American, Damnit!!! And if it's three things I don't believe in, it's quitting and math."