Drop Dead Gorgeous (2010)

Director
Philip Alderton

Main cast
Steven Berkoff; Ivy Levan; Jeremy London; Joshua Cox; Natasha Alam

Genres
Drama, Comedy, Documentary

Description
An aspiring model, Cynthia, becomes the focus of a documentary when she is chosen as the face for the world's biggest fashion designer, Claudio. Cynthia accidentally overdoses and with deadlines looming they decide to use her corpse to continue filming.


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