Directed by John Waters • 1994 • United States
Starring Kathleen Turner, Sam Waterston, Ricki Lake
Beverly 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 (Ricki Lake and Matthew Lillard). But something is amiss: anyone who crosses Beverly or her family winds up dead in the most gruesome of ways. Built around a virtuosically demented performance from Turner, John Waters’s homage to schlockmeisters like William Castle and Herschell Gordon Lewis reveals the pathology beneath the veneer of suburban “normalcy.”
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Cry-Baby
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
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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Desperate Living
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...
