Drop Dead Gorgeous

Well, the story of this film is admirably original. A small city has a pageant to choose the prettiest girl around.

Kirstie Ally's best performance (IMO). Brittany Murphy, Allison Janey, Kirsten Dunst are all great and Denise Richards is shockingly good in this as well.

Perhaps knowing Minnesota better would make this a more enjoyable film. I don't know much at all about it, and I found myself cringing more than laughing.

From the moment front-runner Tammy Curry (Brooke Bushman) is blown to pieces on her sabotaged tractor, it's clear this beauty pageant will be fought tooth and nail. And it ain't gonna be pretty.

Speaking as a person who has been all over the Midwest, if you have ever been to Minnesota, or Iowa, the Dakotas, or rural Illinois, this is hilarious. While the characters are exaggerated, they are honest charactures of people who exist, particularly Midwestern high-school girls and their viciously competitive mothers.

Yes this movie is mainly about Kirsten Dunst's Amber struggle to compete in the Miss American Teen Princess Pagent but it's AJ that steals the show as Loretta, the trailer trash surrogate mother.This movie will offend many, particularly those that are A) From small town Minnesota B) Beauty Pagent contestants C) Gun toting Lutherans D) Any combination of the above that isn't able to laugh at themselves.

I have loved this film since I first watched it in the early 00's and I think it's actually got better over time!I still enjoy watching this dark satire to this day.

This movie is one of the all-time best comedic representations of the USA. It goes so close to the bone in depicting the behaviours and mentalities of small town America that many of my American friends HATE it.

I love movies about good people committing bad deeds. This film checks a lot of boxes for me; solid jokes, my fav actresses and excellent use of color & costumes.