Directed by John Waters • 1981 • United States
Starring Divine, Tab Hunter, Edith Massey
For 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 Francine Fishpaw, a heroine worthy of a Douglas Sirk melodrama. Blessed with a keen sense of smell and cursed with a philandering pornographer husband, a parasitic mother, and a pair of delinquent children, the long-suffering Francine turns to the bottle as her life falls apart—until deliverance appears in the form of a hunk named Todd Tomorrow (vintage heartthrob Tab Hunter). One of Waters’ most hilarious inventions, POLYESTER is replete with stomach-churning smells, sadistic nuns, AA meetings, and foot stomping galore.
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Cecil B. Demented
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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Multiple Maniacs
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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