Jesus loves winners. And 26 years later, we nonetheless love Drop Lifeless Beautiful.
Within the product debut film anniversary to make you really really feel the tough, merciless and unjust passing of your youth, we’re right here to remind you that Drop Lifeless Beautiful—the wonder pageant satire starring Kirsten Dunst, Denise Richards, Kirstie Alley and Ellen Barkin—got here out on July, 23, 1999.
The darkish teen comedy, written by former magnificence pageant queen Lona Williams and directed by Michael Patrick Jann, was like if Miss Congeniality and Heathers had a child that grew up and went by a goth part.
And whereas it is gone on to turn out to be a beloved cult traditional over time, ridiculously quotable and stuffed with before-they-became super-famous stars (hello, Amy Adams, Brittany Murphy and Allison Janney), Drop Lifeless Beautiful was a field workplace catastrophe and critic punching bag when it got here out in the midst of the teenager comedy gold rush that was 1999.
And, positive, it wasn’t the preferred, however it was one of many “most smartest” and was approach forward of its time.