Mammina cara

Titolo originale: Mommie Dearest
Regia: Frank Perry |
Anno: 1981
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Dramma
Tag: child abuse | adoption | biography | sociopath | lawyer | hollywood | mansion | docudrama | perfection | mother daughter estrangement | adopted child | mother daughter relationship | ax | controlling parent |
Cast: Faye Dunaway | Diana Scarwid | Steve Forrest | Howard Da Silva | Mara Hobel | Rutanya Alda | Harry Goz | Michael Edwards | Jocelyn Brando | Priscilla Pointer | Joe Abdullah | Gary Allen | Selma Archerd | Adrian Aron | Xander Berkeley | Matthew Campion | Carolyn Coates | Jerry Douglas | Margaret Fairchild | Phillip R. Allen | James Kirkwood Jr. | Michael Hawkins | Matthew Faison | Peter Jason | Ellen Feldman | Robert Harper | Cathy Lind Hayes | Victoria James | Dawn Jeffory | Virginia Kiser | S. John Launer | Russ Marin | Nicholas Mele | Belita Moreno | Warren Munson | Alice Nunn | Norman Palmer | David Price | Jeremy Scott Reinbolt | Michael Talbott | Arthur Taxier | Joe Warren | Erica Wexler | Dick McGarvin | Brent Dunsford | Joseph Dypwick | Wendy Pitzer | David Sanderson | Ian Bruce | Peter Eastman | Lars Hensen | Danny Nero | Ilene Woods |

La celebre diva hollywoodiana Joan Crawford dipinta, nei suoi aspetti peggiori, nella biografia della figlia adottiva Christine: nevrotica, alcolizzata, isterica, paranoica, collerica sino quasi al sadismo. E i figli adottivi (quattro nella realtà, due nel film) ne sopportano le conseguenze. Christine per due volte viene messa in collegio, il secondo dei quali è una specie di casa di correzione.

Frasi

Joan Crawford: The biggest female star he's got... [...] D
Joan Crawford: Look at this floor. Do you call tha [...] D
Joan Crawford: [muttering to herself, hacking down [...] D
Joan Crawford: [Christina is practicing her diving [...] D
Christina Crawford: [Christina lectures her baby d [...] D
Mr. Dodd: My daughter Ellen would love to have you [...] D
Joan Crawford: Why do you deliberately defy me? C [...] D
Joan Crawford: Times are tough; still I treat you [...] D
[Joan is passed out in her dressing room] Christi [...] D
Joan Crawford: [Joan is pouring booze from her fla [...] D
Joan Crawford: I'd rather you go bald to school th [...] D
Christina: [Seeing Joan in her coffin] Oh Mommie. [...] D
Pepsi Chairman: Apparently the Board has failed to [...] D
Joan Crawford: [on her mother] ... When I was a ki [...] D
Joan Crawford: Why can't you give me the respect t [...] D
Christina: How are you, Miss Bennett? Barbara Ben [...] D
Joan Crawford: Christina. Christopher. Damn it. D
Joan Crawford: Did you scrub the bathroom floor to [...] D
Joan Crawford: [holding a potential script in her [...] D
Joan Crawford: No wire hangers, ever! D
Joan Crawford: SCRUB, Christina. SCRUB. D
Joan Crawford: [after an ugly fight] I didn't mean [...] D
[Christina has been discovered making out with a b [...] D
Carol Ann: [embracing Christina at Joan's funeral] [...] D
Joan Crawford: [hacking off Christina's hair with [...] D
Joan Crawford: You are a lousy substitute for some [...] D
Joan Crawford: [Joan addresses the fans camped out [...] D
Joan Crawford: The sword cuts both ways D
[after discovering dirt underneath a large indoor [...] D
[at a press conference on her wedding day] Joan C [...] D
Joan Crawford: Hauling me over to Mayer's table li [...] D
Joan Crawford: Don't mess with me, fellas! D
Christina Crawford: [Entering Joan's bedroom after [...] D
Carol Ann: Your mother's been practicing and pract [...] D
[Maid comments how well Christina's acting talent [...] D
[Joan has just easily beaten Christina in a pool r [...] D
Joan Crawford: You know what's missing in my life? [...] D
Louis B. Mayer: Joan, my Joan, you're in a positio [...] D
Joan Crawford: [cutting off her daughter's hair] Y [...] D
Lawyer: [reading from Joan's will after her death] [...] D
[discovers her boyfriend making out with Christina [...] D
Christopher: As usual, she has the last word. Chr [...] D
[addressing the men in the Pepsi boardroom] Joan [...] D
[after weathering a vicious rampage where Joan dem [...] D
Joan Crawford: Discipline mixed with love is such [...] D
[Christina has a bloody piece of steak on her lunc [...] D
Adoption agency official: I'm afraid I have some d [...] D
Joan Crawford: No... wire... hangers. What's wire [...] D
Christina: There's a liquor store to the right. J [...] D
Joan Crawford: [after giving Christina a pearl nec [...] D
Christina Crawford: [pretending to be Joan] Oh yes [...] D
Joan Crawford: Tear down that BITCH of a bearing w [...] D
Joan Crawford: You drove Al Steele to his grave, a [...] D
Alfred Steele: Joan, you've got to understand it's [...] D
[Joan is drunk and stumbling over her lines in a l [...] D
Christina Crawford: My babies! Someone stole both [...] D
Christina Crawford: I fix ALL my uncles drinks thi [...] D
Joan Crawford: Why do you deliberately defy me? C [...] D
Joan Crawford: Why must EVERYTHING be a CONTEST? D
Joan Crawford: Greg. You're early. Greg Savitt: O [...] D
Christina: [in character as Antigone] Understand. [...] D