Directed by John Waters
10 Episodes
The one and only “Pope of Trash,” John Waters has always pushed the envelope of independent cinema to bizarre, grotesque, and subversive extremes with a sense of humor and panache that makes the outrageous infectious and the blasphemous a blast. Beyond shock and thrills, his deep empathy for his characters made unlikely movie stars of Baltimore’s counterculture misfits (most famously the outré diva Divine). From scuzzy underground transgressions like MULTIPLE MANIACS and FEMALE TROUBLE to more mainstream but equally personal works like HAIRSPRAY and CRY-BABY, Waters’s gleefully perverse, wickedly funny films are celebrations of the outsiders, iconoclasts, and weirdos who refuse to conform.
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01:06Episode 1Directed by John Waters Teaser
Episode 1
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1:33:52Episode 2Serial Mom
Episode 2
Directed by John Waters • 1994 • United States
Starring Kathleen Turner, Sam Waterston, Ricki LakeBeverly Sutphin (Kathleen Turner) is the picture-perfect, all-American housewife, leading a modern “Leave It to Beaver” life in suburban Baltimore with her husband (Sam Waterston) and two kids (Ric...
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Cry-Baby
Episode 3
Directed by John Waters • 1990 • United States
Starring Johnny Depp, Amy Locane, Iggy PopJohn Waters blends nostalgia with camp irreverence in this irresistible spoof of the 1950s delinquent-youth movie. In the role that began his transition from teen idol to movie star, Johnny Depp plays Wade ...
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Hairspray
Episode 4
Directed by John Waters • 1988 • United States
Starring Ricki Lake, Sonny Bono, DivineJohn Waters scored one of the biggest commercial and critical successes of his career with this affectionately outrageous musical satire that found the filmmaker bringing his outsider vision into the mainstrea...
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1:30:51Episode 5Desperate Living
Episode 5
Directed by John Waters • 1977 • United States
Starring Liz Renay, Mink Stole, Susan LoweDescribed by John Waters as “a lesbian melodrama about revolution,” the third installment in the director’s Trash Trilogy, following FEMALE TROUBLE and PINK FLAMINGOS, is a demented fairy tale wherein a scr...
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1:37:52Episode 6Female Trouble
Episode 6
Directed by John Waters • 1974 • United States
Starring Divine, David Lochary, Edith MasseyGlamour has never been more grotesque than in FEMALE TROUBLE, which injects the Hollywood melodrama with anarchic decadence. Divine, director John Waters’ larger-than-life muse, engulfs the screen with...
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Polyester
Episode 7
Directed by John Waters • 1981 • United States
Starring Divine, Tab Hunter, Edith MasseyFor his first studio picture, filth maestro John Waters took advantage of his biggest budget yet to allow his muse Divine to sink his teeth into a role unlike any he had played before: Baltimore housewife Fr...
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1:27:49Episode 8Cecil B. Demented
Episode 8
Directed by John Waters • 2000 • United States, France
Starring Melanie Griffith, Stephen Dorff, Adrian GrenierJohn Waters’s defiant takedown of Hollywood mediocrity stars Melanie Griffith as a pampered movie queen who goes guerrilla when she is kidnapped by a band of underground filmmakers act...
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1:36:39Episode 9Multiple Maniacs
Episode 9
Directed by John Waters • 1970 • United States
Starring Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian PearceThe gloriously grotesque second feature directed by John Waters is replete with all manner of depravity, from robbery to murder to one of cinema's most memorably blasphemous moments. Made on a shoes...
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24:16Episode 10John Waters in Conversation
Episode 10
