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This movie just SUCKS!
This is one of, if not the worst movie I've almost seen. I got up and walked out of it and got my money back. Cates gives me serious wood but even that couldn't keep me watching it. DO NOT waste your money! I would, if I could, give it a negative star rating, one star is way too good for it.

a very grown-up kid's movie
Ambiguously "imaginary" friend Drop Dead Fred sums up the movie's premise when he says, "You see, when something's not working right, the best thing to do is tear it apart to make it better." (He's referring to dismantling a jack-in-the-box in order to garnish a mud pie.)

Twenty-six-year-old Elizabeth has just lost her husband, purse, car, and job (all during lunch break!) and been bullied by her overbearing mother into re-inhabiting her childhood bedroom.

Fred (re)appears - having been imprisoned in a box by Mom since Lizzie was 5 - as a bundle of qualities that Lizzie wants for herself and her loved ones. He shares a British accent with her absent father, and he wildly, spiritedly resists her mother's uptight, unhappy conformism.

"Drop Dead Fred" is one of those children's movies (?) that (hopefully) goes over children's heads. It includes themes of sexuality and adultery, and there are moments of sexual tension between Lizzie and Fred. Fred also makes crass remarks about women's panties (or lack thereof).

On another level, children probably can't (and shouldn't) relate to a story about the bittersweetness of grown-up self-assertion - the discovery that, while there are some outlets for fantasy in reality, it's never the same as when you were wholly content with your imagination.

Of course, there are grown-up needs (and responsibilities and joys) that Drop Dead Fred can't accommodate, and the movie presents an optimistic middle ground.

Snotface!
Perhaps I love this movie because my big brother, who happens to be my favorite person on this planet, took me to see it in the movie theater when he came home from college on break. Or perhaps it's because this movie is so over-the-top silly. For argument's sake, I'll go with a combination of the two. Drop Dead Fred is a great movie for when you're in one of those moods to experience something ridiculous. I never had an imaginary friend (thinking about making friends with one though...). Despite it's overall wackiness, this movie makes an excellent point: that you should be true to yourself and stand up for yourself because no one deserves to be walked all over.

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