Divine, Tab Hunter, Edith Massey
A suburban housewife's world falls apart when her pornographer husband admits he's serially unfaithful to her, her daughter gets pregnant, and her son is suspected of being the foot-fetishist who's be...( read more
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DVD Release Date: September 7, 2004
Stats: 428 reviews
I think that "Polyester" is John Waters' best movie. "Female Trouble" may have been funnier, but I prefer the elements in this softer creation to that earlier, meaner-spirited film. "Polyester" was the director's bridge between his last bad taste epic, "Desperate Living" (which w...( read more)
Cheap. Dirty. Sleazy. Whacked-out. Funny. Smelly. I enjoyed Polyester very much. Despite being made in 1981, it felt very 1970's low-budget. Offered in Odorama, where you scratch and sniff the appropriate scent on a card when a number flashes onscreen, totally gimmicky and fun! D...( read more)
Campy comedy. This was John Water's first "big budget" film. For John Waters fans it serves as a bridge between his schlock early films to his modern classics such as Hairspray and Serial Mom.This is much more of a traditional film than his earlier works.
John Waters' love letter to the 50s melodrama and the William Castle gimmick film.
Brilliant.
"BEER!" The last of the low budget, non-mainstream movies from John Waters, before the general public was too jaded to think of his brand of shock value as hip and trendy. Great performance by the late punk legend Stiv Bators, my favorite attack by pro-life activists on film, and...( read more)
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