Truth-is-stranger-than-fiction HBO documentary about the murder of Dee Dee Blanchard, who was found in a pool of blood with multiple...
Truth-is-stranger-than-fiction HBO documentary about the murder of Dee Dee Blanchard, who was found in a pool of blood with multiple stab wounds in 2015. Implicated in the crime was Blanchard's daughter, Gypsy. Gypsy suffered from brain damage, leukemia, muscular dystrophy and other chronic conditions - or so the public and multiple charities thought. In fact she suffered from none of these, but was the victim of physical and psychological abuse at the hands of her mother.
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100 %14 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
86 %376 reviewsAudience score rating
"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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Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood Reporter"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."
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Variety
Variety"A twisted and twisty documentary that's as unsettling as it is absorbing."
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CNN
CNN"Director Erin Lee Carr has an incredible ability to answer the questions as they arise to the viewer."
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RogerEbert.com
RogerEbert.com"The film's interweaving of past and present creates a visually unsettling tapestry of disbelief."
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Vox
VoxMommy Dead and Dearest | Details
- Runtime
- 82
- Genre
- Documentary
- Country of origin
- USA
