Glamorous yet lonely star Joan Crawford (Faye Dunaway) takes in two orphans, and at first their unconventional family seems happy. Yet, her problems with alcohol, men, and the pressures of show business turn her into a mentally abusive wreck seen through the eyes of her adopted children.
5 May 1929, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA
26 February 1925, Newark, New Jersey, USA
16 February 1932, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
2 February 1955, Waverly, Iowa, USA
10 October 1927, Jacksonville, Florida, USA
29 September 1925, Huntsville, Texas, USA
1 November 1949, Dallas, Texas, USA
4 May 1909, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
22 August 1924, Hollywood, California, USA
5 November 1919, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
22 July 1944, Hollywood, California, USA
19 May 1951, New York City, New York, USA
17 November 1961, Los Angeles, California, USA
12 November 1932, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
14 January 1941, Bascom, Florida, USA
22 June 1952, Van Nuys, California, USA
13 January 1944, USA
27 August 1939, Los Angeles, California, USA
October 13, 2015
Campy skewering of Hollywood star is both silly and sad.
October 30, 2007
Dunaway does not chew scenery. Dunaway starts neatly at each corner of the set in every scene and swallows it whole, costars and all.
October 23, 2004
I can't imagine who would want to subject themselves to this movie.
October 30, 2007
It's rich, stimulating thought in spite of itself.
August 30, 2004
There is nothing to string the episodes together into a coherent drama, and no insight into Miss Crawford herself.
February 28, 2008
Wire Hangers!
May 13, 2008
Director Frank Perry simply sits back and lets Dunaway rip. He was either supremely untalented or he purposefully intended to sabotage her.
February 20, 2013
Trashy soap opera drama on the private life of screen queen Joan Crawford.
October 30, 2007
Director Frank Perry, who collaborated with three others (including producer Frank Yablans) on the script, gives it all a certain crazed conviction.
October 15, 2016
The character is rendered such a grotesque, its moments don't accumulate to an arc or even a readable profile. They just pile up, like cars in a traffic accident, and all we can do is gawk.
