My friend S has recommended some great movies. My favorites are a couple of satires that make fun of family or beauty pageants or cross dressing.
Drop Dead Gorgeous stars Kirsten Dunst, Kirstie Allie, Brittany Murphy, Denise Richards, Allison Janney, Ellen Barkin, Amy Adams, and the list goes on. It is about a beauty pageant in Minnesota, so we also get to enjoy flat mid-western accents. Somebody is murdering the pageant contestants, but it's not really a mystery - just very funny. For example, Ellen B's character is hurt in an exploding trailer accident and her beer can fuses to her hand. Who thinks up this stuff? Did it really happen to somebody? Was it in the news and I missed it?
Here is an IMDB link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0157503/
Sordid Lives is a look at a southern family preparing for a funeral. Beau Bridges has a fake leg, which is part of the plot. It's hilarious.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0204640/
For a minute I thought you were reviewing a BBC movie I thought was lighthearted fun called Dead Gorgeous, which is a female variation of Strangers on a Train. It's based on the novel On the Edge by Peter Lovesy but has a much better ending.
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