Saturday, October 11, 10:30 PM
Cinema 21

Written by and starring Charles Busch (PSYCHO BEACH PARTY), DIE MOMMIE DIE also stars Frances Conroy ("Six Feet Under") Philip Baker Hall (MAGNOLIA), Natasha Lyonne (SLUMS OF BEVERLY HILLS), Jason Priestley ("90210"), and Stark Sands ("Six Feet Under"). The film was a big hit at 2003 Sundance Film Festival where Charles Busch was awarded a special performance Jury Prize. Created as an ode to the Ross Hunter-style big-screen soaps of the 60's (PILLOW TALK, MADAME X), DIE MOMMIE DIE features theater veteran Busch as the fallen pop diva, Angela Arden. Set in 1967, Angela has a troubled past and is facing the possibility that she may be washed up. When Angela's husband, Sol (Hall), discovers that she's having an affair with tennis pro, gigolo and failed actor Tony Parker (Priestley), Angela calculatedly offs him with a poisoned suppository, or does she? What follows is a hilarious mixture of whodunits and double-crossings involving Bootsie (Conroy), the ill-fated family maid, Edith (Lyonne), Angela and Sol's spoiled, vampy daughter and Lance (Sands), their boy-toy son.

Dir. Mark Rucker
2003 USA 35mm 90 min English