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Drop Dead Gorgeous
Why this pick
This mockumentary turns adolescent status competition into escalating black comedy, with the same gleeful appetite for ugly behavior beneath polished femininity.
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MOVIE1999 1h 27m USA
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
On the morning of her 17th birthday, high-school senior Liz Purr, the most popular girl in Reagan High, is kidnapped in her bed by three masked assailants, one of whom stuffs a jawbreaker into her mouth as a gag before she is placed in the trunk of a car. The kidnappers turn out to be Liz's "friends"—Courtney, Marcie, and Julie—playing a cruel prank on her for her birthday, which they do annually. When the girls drive up to a diner to treat Liz to breakfast, they open the trunk and discover she is dead, having choked to death on the jawbreaker Courtney had used to gag her.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Rose McGowan
Courtney
Rebecca Gayheart
Julie Freeman
Carol Kane
Ms. Sherwood
Chad Christ
Zack
Ethan Erickson
Dane Sanders
Tatyana Ali
Brenda
William Katt
Mr. Purr
Marilyn Manson
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