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Mommie Honey (1981)

In Frank Perry'due south camp classic biopic based on daughter Christina'due south scandalous memoirs of parental corruption:

the long championship sequence with the final revelation of a full-closeup view of the confront of flick-star Joan Crawford (Faye Dunaway) later on her early morning, body-scrubbing, facial-cleansing ritual of plunging her face into water ice-cubes (that were doused with rubbing alcohol), dressing, being chauffeured to MGM studios, and having her brand-up applied (in extreme close-upwardly), earlier a knock on her door: (Joan: "Yeah?" Stage-hand: "We're ready for you, Miss Crawford")
the over-meticulous, disquisitional and obsessively-clean Crawford's angry scene with her new housemaid Helga (Alice Nunn) and Carol Ann (Rutanya Alda) for non moving a large tree plant vase when polishing the tile floor of her home: ("If y'all tin can't practise something right, don't exercise it at all...Give me the soap. You see, Carol Ann, you have to stay on top of things every unmarried minute") - so her statement to Helga: ("Helga, I'm not mad at you, I'grand mad at the dirt!")
her over-the-top performances in various scenes in which she attacked her adopted daughter Christina (Mara Hobel every bit child); i.e., slapping her girl for allegedly lying, and then saying: ("You dear it, don't yous? Y'all love to brand me hit you!"); or the scene of Joan's response when Christina repeatedly demanded to know why she was adopted: ("Considering I wanted a child. Because I wanted someone to love...Mayhap I did information technology for a niggling extra publicity")
the pool scene when Joan raced her immature girl Christina (with a headstart), won the contest, and so gloated: ("You lost again!"), and when Christina complained: ("Information technology's non fair! You're bigger than I am. It'southward not fair to win twice!"), Joan retorted: ("Ah, but nobody ever said life was fair, Tina. I'k bigger and I'm faster. I will e'er trounce yous"); and then later a resistant Christina was ordered to her room when she vowed never to play with her enraged female parent again, she was locked up in the pool house
the scene of Joan's over-reaction to young Christina, after seeing her play-acting by imitating her in a multi-role mirror in her bedroom - and hysterically chopping off Christina'due south blonde hair with scissors to humiliate her: ("What do you mean, playing? Going through my things? Making fun of me?...Wait at yourself! Gimme that!...What accept you lot done? What have you lot put on your pilus? What take yous done to this damn hair?...I know you look awful. You lot be repose! You're e'er rummaging through my drawers, trying to find a mode to make people wait at you. Why are you always looking at yourself in the mirror? Why are you doing that? Tell me! You sit still at present! This ought to teach you!...Y'all're vain, spoiled...I'd rather yous go bald to school than looking similar a tramp!...You spoiled it simply like I spoiled you")
the crazed rose-pruning scene when Joan - after being fired from MGM by Louis Mayer - demanded that her children join her to trim the roses in the garden - and her axe-wielding/evening-gowned hacking rampage in her prized rose garden: ("Eighteen years in the business concern! And we parted friends! Creative differences! Good, I want some help hither. I want all of these branches cleared out of here now. Carol Ann and Christopher, start clearing away all these branches. Start gathering them up. Go and get the wheelbarrow and the rake. Tina! Bring me the axe!")
the celebrated, tardily-night scene of Joan (with her face smeared in cold cream) entering her girl's closet and abusively screaming - a violent rant - when she saw a wearing apparel hanging in that location on a cheap wire hanger, and began clearing out the closet past tossing everything onto the floor: ("No - wire - hangers. What's wire hangers doing in this closet when I told you - NO WIRE HANGERS E'er! I work and work 'til I'k one-half-expressionless, and I hear people proverb 'She's getting old.' And what do I get? A daughter who cares as much about the beautiful dresses I give her every bit she cares well-nigh me. What'southward wire hangers doing in this closet? Reply ME! I buy yous beautiful dresses, and you treat them like they were some dish-rag. You lot do! $300 dollar dress on a wire hanger! Nosotros'll encounter how many you lot've got hidden in here. We'll run into. Get out of that bed. All of this is coming out. Out! Out! Out. Out. Out. You've got any more? We're gonna see how many wire hangers you lot've got in your closet. Wire hangers! Why? Why? Christina, get out of that bed. Get out of that bed. You live in the most beautiful firm in Brentwood (She picked upward a hanger and began to beat out Christina) and you lot don't intendance if your dress are stretched dorsum from wire hangers. And your room looks similar a two-dollar-a-week priced room in some ii-bit backstreet town in Oklahoma. Get up. Get upwardly. Clean up this mess")

the bath cleaning scene, when Joan threw a tin can of powdered cleanser at Christina while they were both on their knees scrubbing the already-clean bathroom tile floor
the confrontational scene that led to Joan violently choking her girl Christina who claimed she wasn't another one of her female parent's fans: (Joan: "I don't ask much from you, girl. Why tin't yous give me the respect that I'grand entitled to? Why tin't you care for me in the mode I would be treated by whatsoever stranger on the street?" Christina: "Considering I am not i of your fans! Mommie! You never loved me! Mommie! Mommie!" Joan: "You've hated me! You never loved me! Never! You've ever taken and taken. You never wanted to be my child! You've always hated everything! Everything! Everything! Get out!")
the scene of Joan's notorious confront-downwards with the all-male person Pepsi-Cola board in the boardroom, subsequently her husband Alfred Steele (Harry Goz), Pepsi's CEO, died when she was "retired" from the Pepsi lath of directors, and threatened to injure the company'south sales if they didn't retain her: ("You think you're very clever, don't you lot? Trying to sweep the poor petty widow nether the carpet. Well, think again. I'm on the board of directors of this lousy company...Al and I helped build Pepsi to what information technology is today. I intend to stay with it....You lot drove Al to his grave, and at present you're trying to stab me in the back. Forget it! I fought worse monsters than you lot for years in Hollywood. I know how to win the difficult way!...Yous don't know what hard feelings are until I come out publicly against your production. You'll see how much yous sell.... Don't f--1000 with me, fellas! This own't my first fourth dimension at the rodeo. Yous forget the press I delivered to Pepsi was my ability. I can use it whatever way I want. Information technology'southward a sword, cuts both ways"); abruptly, the members of the board acquiesed: ("The board has failed to realize the extent of your involvement in the company. Nosotros misjudged. We shall be pleased to take you stay on")
the scene of Joan Crawford dazedly and drunkenly replacing her ailing daughter (hospitalized for an ovarian tumor) in the cast of an NYC daytime Tv set lather opera
the terminal scene in which developed-aged Christina (Diana Scarwid as developed) listened every bit a lawyer read that she and her brother were deliberately disinherited - left out of her female parent's will after her death in 1977: ("It is my intention to make no provision herein for my son, Christopher and my girl Christina, for reasons which are well known to them"); when Christopher (Xander Berkeley every bit adult) commented: ("What reasons?...As usual, she has the last discussion"), Christina (with a tear on her left cheek) vengefully implied that she would take the "last discussion" by writing a tell-all memoir-expose: ("Does she?")