Die, Mommie, Die!

Die, Mommie, Die! (2003)

Hollywood... It's a dirty town but someone has to do it!

Angela Arden is a washed up, has-been singing star who is trapped in a hateful marriage to film producer Sol Sussman. In an attempt to escape her marriage so that she can be with a hunky layabout, she poisons her husband. However, Angela's manipulative daughter, gay son and alcoholic maid are not going to make it easy for her.

Date of release
2003-10-31
TMDB
6.6 / 10 (40)
Runtime
1h 30m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Mark Rucker

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Los Angeles
  • Awards: 1 · Nominations: 0. Including: Sundance Special Jury Prize for Acting

Die, Mommie, Die! is a 2003 American satirical black comedy film written by female impersonator Charles Busch, who also plays the lead role. Partly spoof and partly homage, it draws heavily on the tropes and themes of American "Psycho-biddy" films and plays from the 1950s and 1960s that featured strong, sometimes dominating female leads. It is adapted from a play of the same name by Busch, first performed in 1999.

Production

Die, Mommie, Die! is based on a play of the same name by Busch, subtitled The Fall of the House of Sussman. It is a parody of 1960s gothic horror films like Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte, crossed with the Greek tragedy Electra by Sophocles. Busch originally planned to adapt Electra and play Clytemnestra, but finding the costumes "so drab, so Greek", he set the work in 1967 ("a truly groovy year in fashion") and added the horror element.

Michael Bottari and Ronald Case designed Busch's more than 50 costumes in the film.

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