Best movie ever!

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

The writing is so hysterically crazy in this film that you can't help but burst from laughing from this very dark comedy.A dysfunctional California family hate each other. Some of the lines in the film talk about blintzes in the Sahara Desert and the father complaining of constipation since his trip to Madrid.There are some real good twists here such as the religious maid who isn't as great as she can be, and the ending shocker when it's revealed that the lady of the house pulled exactly what Bette Davis did in 1964's "Dead Ringer." People who are dead turn up very much alive and with it all, there is a pretty good song sung-"I'm Me!"This picture proves that there is a very thin line between genius and insanity.

What a fun movie!! So campy, so snappy, yet so... human. Charles Busch is delightful, as a writer and actor, not to mention an expert lip-sync-er. Busch seems to channel every golden screen diva from Garland to Garbo, even as recent as Faye Dunaway playing Joan Crawford. The movie is full of witty one- liners, pop culture references, and juicy double entendres. The actors all eat up this killer material, and Rucker's direction makes the most of an apparently limited budget. But that hardly matters when there's a true love of the medium by all involved, which is the case with "Die Mommie Die!" Too bad Busch doesn't write for "Will & Grace" nowadays. But I'm sure he has much better things to do.

After noticing that the star of this film is a drag queen than you start to wonder what else this story has to offer and that's where the main problem of this satiric effort lies. Story is set in the 1960's (I think so, anyway) where we see a faded former singing star named Angela Arden (Charles Busch) and she wants to divorce her husband Sol Sussman (Philip Baker Hall) who's a has-been Hollywood producer. Their children are virginal Edith (Natasha Lyonne) who loves her father but hates her mother and homosexual pothead Lance (Stark Sands) who has the opposite feelings towards his parents.*****SPOILER ALERT***** Sol won't give Angela a divorce so she decides to kill him by dipping a suppository in arsenic and inserting it! Sol dies and the authorities consider it just a heart attack but Edith and Lance start to think that their mother was up to it. The local gigolo Tony Parker (Jason Priestley) is bisexual and has slept with both Edith and Lance and he starts to investigate the death of Sol but when the maid Bootsie Carp (Frances Conroy) pops up dead than it seems just a matter of time to find proof that Angela is behind things. After drugging Angela with LSD she admits not only to Sol's death but also the circumstances involving her twin sister Barbara.This is directed by Mark Rucker who makes his debut and though he has to somehow get around the minuscule budget the films weakness has nothing to do with the production values. The script is a campy send-up of the older melodrama's from both the 50's and 60's and as I watched this several films came to mind like "Peyton Place", "Valley of the Dolls", "Sunset Boulevard", "Straight Jacket", and many of Douglas Sirk's efforts. The main joke in the film is Busch in drag resembling Joan Crawford but with the characters last name of Arden I couldn't help but think of actress Eve Arden whom Busch also resembles. But that part of the films humor wears out so quickly that everything else seems thrown in to try and fill out the script to a near 90 minutes and the ridiculous ending doesn't help either. The film has many in-jokes and the characters all display silly behavior but even die hard camp lovers will find this effort (at best) a tedious offering.

After reading comments regarding, Stark Sands, I rented this film. I was curious. After viewing it, I was in awe! Not only does, Stark Sands, have the most beautiful physical attributes(gorgeous natural face, muscular legs, arms, and chest), but he has this rare natural acting talent that is amazing, to say the least. Stark Sands is the hottest young actor to debut in a film that actually has the acting chops that equal his beauty since Johnny Depp hit the scene 2 decades ago. I am not kidding. Stark is one of those rare actors whose beauty draws you in while his acting seals the deal! This is a star in the making! Now that I have raved about the sexiest lad I have seen in ages, let me get to the rest of this gem of a film: This retro art film is simply amazing! So original, boasting a talented cast such as, Natasha Lyonne, Frances Conroy, and Charles Busch. Oh, Jason Priestly sleep-walks through the film, proving his stardom on 90210 was a fluke. He is nothing to brag about, and has not aged very well. This is a wonderfully quirky film worthy of the critical praise and cult status it has earned. And oh, Stark Sands...What a talent with a beautiful body! Stark is worth the price of admission alone! YUM!