Mommy Dead and Dearest (2017)
3.8 of 5 from 45 ratings
1h 22min
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- Synopsis:
In 'Mommy Dead and Dearest', provocative documentarian Erin Lee Carr again explores a crime in the age of social media. Things are not always as they appear, especially in the case of Dee Dee and Gypsy Rose, and what starts out as a grisly tale of matricide morphs into a rabbit hole of deception. Child abuse, mental illness and forbidden love converge in this mystery of a mother and daughter who were thought to be living a fairy tale life that turned out to be a living nightmare. Dee Dee Blanchard and her ailing, wheelchair-bound daughter, Gypsy Rose, were beloved members of Springfield, Mo. , but the tight-knit community was rocked when Dee Dee was found murdered in her home, and Gypsy was missing. Investigators tracked a graphic Facebook status stating, “that Bitch is Dead”, to Wisconsin. What unraveled next was a disturbing sequence of events that nobody saw coming. Featuring exclusive prison access to Gypsy Rose Blanchard, the HBO Documentary Films presentation is a disturbing, first-hand look at this bizarre case and explores one of psychology’s most controversial conditions: Munchausen by proxy syndrome. - Actors:
- Jim Arnott, David Blanchard, Dee Dee Blanchard, Gypsy Rose Blanchard, Kristy Blanchard, Rod Blanchard, Michelle Dean, Marc Feldman, Bernard Flatersten, Nicholas Godejohn, Charles Goldhammer, Stephanie Goldhammer, Calvin Holden, Linda Ong, Dan Patterson, Bobby Pitre, Claude Pitre, Emma Pitre, Laura Pitre, Elaine Scherer
- Directors:
- Erin Lee Carr
- Genres:
- Documentary, Special Interest
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