Drop Dead Gorgeous (film)

Drop Dead Gorgeous is a 1999 American black comedy film directed by Michael Patrick Jann and starring Kirstie Alley, Ellen Barkin, Kirsten Dunst, Allison Janney, Denise Richards, Brittany Murphy, and Amy Adams in her film debut. Shot in a mockumentary format, it follows the contestants in a beauty pageant called the Sarah Rose Cosmetics Mount Rose American Teen Princess Pageant, held in the small fictional town of Mount Rose, Minnesota, in which various contestants begin to die in suspicious ways.

Many odd events occur around town during the runup to the pageant, including the death of a contestant, the athletic and competitive Tammy Curry, who is killed when her tractor explodes. Amber decides to pull out of the pageant after her mother is injured in an explosion at their mobile home but reconsiders and decides to compete to follow her dreams and make her mother proud. At the dress rehearsal, fellow contestant Jenelle Betz swaps numbers with Amber. When Jenelle walks on stage at the beginning of rehearsal, a stage light falls and hits her in the head, knocking her unconscious and rendering her deaf. Luckily, Jenelle is a master of sign language so she claims that despite dropping out of the pageant, she has never been happier.At the pageant, Ambers dance costume mysteriously goes missing. Amber blames Becky and the two get into a catty fight. Ambers best friend and fellow contestant Lisa Swenson Brittany Murphy tears them apart. After comforting a crying Amber, Lisa drops out of the pageant in order to give her own costume to her. Amber then performs her tapdance number to a standing ovation, while Rebecca sings a cringeworthy rendition of Cant Take My Eyes Off You and dances with a lifesize Jesus doll on a crucifix, both amusing and horrifying the audience. Amber is named first runner up to Rebecca, however, during the victory parade the next day, Rebecca is riding in an elaborate float made in mexico and is killed in a freak accident involving gasoline and fire that causes a huge explosion. The griefstricken Gladys, flies into a blind rage and admits to killing Tammy and to being responsible for all the attempts against Amber in the runup to the pageant, and is immediately arrested. Rebeccas tragic death and Gladys antics leave Amber as the new pageant winner. ........

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