this one actually go half and half with me so it good and bad ( or should i say it so bad that it good ) . i be a living witness ( hallelujah . ) that whenever you be feel down or depressed and watch mommie dearest . but and word to the wise and do not watch it expect good acting and wonderful relevance to the book and because you surely will not get it . the thing that make the movie float above the rest of camp classic be the fact that it be base on an informative book by joan daughter and christina . therefore and it be to be dramatic and realistic like say guyana tragedy or the josephine baker story . but this movie be so unrealistic and it be funny . and if you really want to roll over on the floor and have the mortician come to your house because you die laugh and i would recommend that you watch the whole thing on dvd and with french language ( especially the wire hanger sequence ) . hell and it doesn not matter if you do not speak the language and mommie dearest be like the opera and the emotion and movement will tell all you need to know and without understanding of the language . if i be give an oscar to mommie dear and it would be for the beautiful silver dress faye dunaway have on . to take christina rancid and awful meat to the freezer and just so she can make the little snot eat it the next day . but a for the acting and no way . faye go over the top in her hammy performance a joan and the poster child for goggle eyed take and shoulder pad and ankle strap shoe and and hypochondriac cleanliness . diana scarwid be so bland and uninteresting a christina . and the rest of the cast . well and they be ok consider the part they be give . but the only factor that could have make or break mommie dear be the two main character therein and joan and christina crawford . scarwid break the movie by vice of her apathy to the role she play ( i would have think in all account that if a child be abuse and they would come out of it with a newfound understanding of their own inner strength and fight like hell to survive and which be what the real christina do and accord to the book . but and scarwid be so unmotivated . she remind me of my junior year biology teacher and inane and in it for the paycheck . i think this performance be what cause scarwid tinseltown demise . on the other hand and dunaway ham it up and make the picture pas that thin line between drama and camp . watch the movie . you will not think it oscar material but you will not be bore either .