
Retired singing star, Angela Arden, heads a dysfunctional family. Her husband, filmmaker Sol Sussman, hates her and has a kissy relationship with his nubile daughter, Edith. Angela carries on an affair with Tony Parker, a lounge lizard, who sleeps with both Edith and her brother, Lance, but not before Angela plots to murder Sol when he cuts off her allowance. Bootsie Carp, the family maid loyal to Sol, is on to Angela, but the diva works quickly and poisons Sol. Edith suspect... (Full plot summary below)
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Retired singing star, Angela Arden, heads a dysfunctional family. Her husband, filmmaker Sol Sussman, hates her and has a kissy relationship with his nubile daughter, Edith. Angela carries on an affair with Tony Parker, a lounge lizard, who sleeps with both Edith and her brother, Lance, but not before Angela plots to murder Sol when he cuts off her allowance. Bootsie Carp, the family maid loyal to Sol, is on to Angela, but the diva works quickly and poisons Sol. Edith suspects foul play and wants Lance's help in proving mom's guilt. Lance, who loves his mother deeply, is conflicted. Will Edith succeed? Does love lurk somewhere? And what about Angela's long dead sister, Barbara?
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| Village VoiceAlexis SoloskiThough Natasha Lyonne as bratty daughter and Philip Baker Hall as the disposable spouse impress, it's Busch's heartfelt Joan Crawford homage that enthralls. Busch can transcend even the smog, making hazy camp seem fresh. |
| Dallas Morning NewsCharles EalyAn expertly crafted, loving homage to women's movies of the 1940s and '50s. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanBusch, looking like a depressed Stockard Channing, throws his tantrums with breathy ''aristocratic'' hauteur. Yet the movie winds up walking a line between put-on pastiche and kitsch passion, and Jason Priestley is perfect as a brooding lunkhead of Tab Hunter gigolo-osity. |
| Filmcritic.comDon WillmottIf Far From Heaven had had any sense of humor, it might have looked a little like this. |
| OregonianShawn LevyHilarious mixture of Greek tragedy and Aaron Spelling soap opera that spews nasty one-liners and winking '60 signifiers like a slot machine that's paying out. |
| Killer Movie ReviewsAndrea Chase[Busch] is a performer who is more diva than most of the ovary-packing portion of the population and twice the dame |
| Detroit Free PressTerry LawsonWhat could have been a one-gag movie turns out to be one of the funniest comedies John Waters never made. |
| Boston GlobeWesley MorrisBusch combines French absurdist theater and American performance art with a drag queen's flamboyant wit. |
| CompuserveHarvey S. KartenCharles Busch is a mighty attractive woman. |
| San Francisco ExaminerJeffrey M. AndersonRucker and Busch try hard to pour on the melodrama and the camp, but the results are too restrained and self-conscious. |