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The
Complete 2003 Festival Schedule
 DIE
MOMMIE DIE
Friday, October 17
Cinerama
8:00pm
Pop
diva Angela Arden was once the queen of Hollywood—until she
lost her ability to hit the high notes, and abruptly fell from the
limelight. Her spiteful husband
Sol (MAGNOLIA's Philip Baker Hall) is a washed-up film producer;
their vamp of a daughter (Natasha Lyonne, BUT I'M A CHEERLEADER)
has a distinctly suspect
relationship with Daddy; and their dim-bulb son (Stark Sands, SIX
FEET UNDER) is a rampantly promiscuous boy-toy. Then there's the
pious family maid (Frances Conroy, SIX FEET UNDER)—who’s
little more than a proverb-spouting snoop. When Angela's affair
with an out-of-work B-list TV actor (Jason Priestley, LOVE AND DEATH
ON LONG ISLAND) is discovered, vicious Sol puts an end to her fun—no
singing, no allowance, no way out. But free-as-a-nightingale Angela
Arden is not a woman to be held prisoner, even if it means murder….
Written by and starring Charles Busch (PSYCHO BEACH PARTY) as the
tribulation-addled songstress Angela, DIE MOMMIE DIE! is an hysterically
campy ode to the Technicolor melodramas of the ’50s and ’60s.
The illegitimate lovechild of FAR FROM HEAVEN and POLYESTER, director
Mark Rucker's feature debut pays homage to a slew of Hollywood treasures
from NOW, VOYAGER to IMITATION OF LIFE to VALLEY OF THE DOLLS. DIE
MOMMIE DIE! goes beyond mere pastiche to stand on its own postmodern
foundation as a marvelously crafted piece of entertainment. Complete
with Oresteian intrigue, dirty double-crossings, and a fateful poisoned
suppository, this film is a cult classic in the making.
DIE
MOMMIE DIE!; Mark Rucker, director; 2003; USA; 90 minutes; 35mm
VIPs
in attendence: Mark Rucker, director, and Jason Priestley, star
Copresented
by the Sundance Film Festival
GALA
Following the Seattle Premiere of DIE MOMMIE DIE!, please join Three
Dollar Bill Cinema for our Opening Night Gala at Fandango, with
traditional Latin street food, a hosted bar, and the snazzy song
stylings of Miss Sylvia O’Stayformore.
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