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Mommy Dead and Dearest
Directed by
Erin Lee Carr
TV-MA
2017
82m
Documentary
,
Crime
7.3
100%
85%
7.4
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This documentary explores the murder of DeeDee Blanchard by her daughter Gypsy Rose, as well as the circumstances leading up to the event.
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Cast of Mommy Dead and Dearest
Gypsy-Rose Blanchard
Self
Dee Dee Blanchard
Self (archive footage)
Rod Blanchard
Self - Gypsy's Father
Kristy Blanchard
Self - Gypsy's Stepmother
Jim Arnott
Self - Sheriff
David Blanchard
Self - Gypsy's Neighbor (archive footage)
Michelle Dean
Self - Freelance Journalist
Marc Feldman
Self - Munchausen Expert
Bernard Flatersten
Self - Pediatric Neurologist
Nicholas Godejohn
Self - Gypsy's Boyfriend (archive footage)
Charles Goldhammer
Self - Nick's Stepfather (archive footage)
Stephanie Goldhammer
Self - Nick's Mother (archive footage)
Calvin Holden
Self - Judge (archive footage)
Linda Ong
Self - Reporter
Dan Patterson
Self - Prosecutor
Erin Lee Carr
Director / Producer
Andrew Rossi
Producer
Sheila Nevins
Executive Producer
Alison Byrne
Co-Producer
Andrew Coffman
Co-Producer / Editor
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Mommy Dead and Dearest Ratings & Reviews
Nonfics (Substack)
Dylan Brennan
A remarkable retelling that hands its story over to the victims.
Cosmopolitan
Helin Jung
Thanks to Carr's efforts, we finally get to meet Dee Dee's father Claude Pitre and other members of the Pitre family, who were absent from Dean's BuzzFeed story. And oh my god, do they have tales to tell.
Hammer to Nail
Christopher Llewellyn Reed
Dismaying, disquieting, distressing, Mommy Dead and Dearest is above all profoundly cinematic.
Decider
Kayla Cobb
The crime at the center of Mommy Dead and Dearest may be scandalous and intriguing, but the documentary's take on its subject always remains human.
Playboy Online
Matthew Jackson
You may not find what you're looking for but that sense of infectious curiosity is perhaps the greatest testament to the film's power. This documentary will embed itself in your brain and stay there all week.
The Daily Dot
David Wharton
Mommy Dead and Dearest will leave you exhausted by the time the credits roll. It's addictive, white-knuckle viewing, dragging you through the darkness and leaving you with the smallest glimmer of hope.
Vox
Aja Romano
The film's interweaving of past and present creates a visually unsettling tapestry of disbelief.
rogercatlin.com
Roger Catlin
Questions are raised in Erin Lee Carr's creepily fascinating Mommy Dead and Dearest.
New York Times
Neil Genzlinger
The strangeness of this killing speaks for itself, and the director, Erin Lee Carr, largely just lets it do so.
RogerEbert.com
Brian Tallerico
Director Erin Lee Carr has an incredible ability to answer the questions as they arise to the viewer.
CNN.com
Brian Lowry
A twisted and twisty documentary that's as unsettling as it is absorbing.
Variety
Dennis Harvey
It certainly does have a grotesque stranger-than-fiction tale to tell, one that will duly keep any viewer with an ambulance-chasing bone in their body somewhat guiltily riveted to the tube.
Birth.Movies.Death.
Meredith Borders
MOMMY DEAD AND DEAREST examines a case of such unlikely twists and turns that it would be nearly impossible to follow if not for director Erin Lee Carr's fastidious and sound reporting.
The Hollywood Reporter
Sheri Linden
Digging beneath the headlines of the high-profile matricide, which turned out to involve one of the most horrific examples of Munchausen syndrome by proxy ever documented, Carr's film poses as many provocative questions as it answers.
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