What is Mommie Dearest (movie)?
{{italic title}} {{Infobox movie | name = Mommie Dearest | image = | caption = | director = [[Frank Perry]] | screenplay = {{Plainlist| * Robert Getchell * Tracy Hotchne * Frank Perry * Frank Yablans }} | based_on = {{Based on|''[[Mommie Dearest]]''|[[Christina Crawford]]}} | producer = Frank Yablans | starring = {{Plainlist| * [[Faye Dunaway]] * [[Steve Forrest (actor)|Steve Forrest]] * Diana Scarwid * Mara Hobel * [[Xander Berkeley]] * [[Rutanya Alda]] }} | cinematography = Paul Lohmann | editing = Peter E. Berger | music = [[Henry Mancini]] | distributor = [[Paramount Pictures]] | released = {{Movie date|1981|9|16|[[New York City]]|1981|9|18|United States}} | runtime = 129 minutes<!--Theatrical runtime: 128:45--><ref>{{cite web|title=''MOMMIE DEAREST'' (AA)|url=https://www.bbfc.co.uk/releases/mommie-dearest-1970-1|work=[[British Board of Film Classification]]|date=September 30, 1981|access-date=January 3, 2013|archive-date=January 12, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140112195253/http://www.bbfc.co.uk/releases/mommie-dearest-1970-1|url-status=live}}</ref> | country = [[United States]] | language = English | budget = $10 million | gross = $19 million }} '''''Mommie Dearest''''' is a 1981 American [[biographical movie|biographical]] [[psychological drama]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/mommie-dearest-v33073 |title=Mommie Dearest (1981) - Frank Perry &#124; Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related &#124; AllMovie |access-date=2020-07-03 |archive-date=April 1, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190401133929/https://www.allmovie.com/movie/mommie-dearest-v33073 |url-status=live }}</ref> [[movie]] directed by [[Frank Perry]] and starring [[Faye Dunaway]], [[Steve Forrest]], Mara Hobel, Diana Scarwid and [[Xander Berkeley]]. The movie shows [[Christina Crawford]]'s [[adoption|adoptive]] [[mother]], [[Hollywood]] [[actress]] [[Joan Crawford]],