Drop Dead Gorgeous is a 1999 American
black comedy film directed by
Michael Patrick Jann and starring
Kirstie Alley,
Ellen Barkin,
Kirsten Dunst,
Allison Janney,
Denise Richards,
Brittany Murphy, and
Amy Adams in her film debut. Shot in a
mockumentary format, it follows the contestants in a
beauty pageant called the
Sarah Rose Cosmetics Mount Rose American Teen Princess Pageant, held in the small fictional town of Mount Rose,
Minnesota, in which various contestants begin to die in suspicious ways.