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Dirty Shame (A)

Country: USA, Language: English, 89 mins

  • Director: John Waters
  • Writer: John Waters
  • Producer: Michael Almog; Danny Fisher

CGiii Comment

Possibly his worst film to date.

Trash has been taken to a new lower level with a Formica finish - success doesn't always encourage quality...as this proves beyond all reasonable doubt.

C'mon John...you can do much better than this.


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The(ir) Blurb...

Middle-aged, sexually repressed Sylvia Stickles is the subject of this John Water's film, set in North Baltimore. She refuses to have sex with her husband, Vaughn Stickles, and keeps her overly-endowed daughter, Caprice, locked in her room, while she serves home detention for moral depravity charges. Sylvia, together with her mother Big Ethel, lead a group calling themselves "neuters" that promotes decency on Harford Road. When Sylvia is accidentally hit on the head by a lawnmower hanging out of a passing pick-up truck, however, her sexual behavior is changed completely from prude to prostitute. She meets the sex addicted sexual healer Ray Ray Perkins, becoming his twelfth apostle of sex in a journey of pleasure and orgasm.

Cast & Characters

Tracey Ullman as Sylvia Stickles;
Johnny Knoxville as Ray Ray Perkins;
Selma Blair as Caprice Stickles;
Chris Isaak as Vaughn Stickles;
Suzanne Shepherd as Big Ethel;
Mink Stole as Marge the Neuter;
Patricia Hearst as Paige;
Jackie Hoffman as Dora;
Nicholas E.I. Noble as Weird Paperboy;
Lucy Newman-Williams as Neuter Yuppie Woman;
Scott Morgan as Neuter Yuppie Man;
Wes Johnson as Fat Freak Frank;
David A. Dunham as Mama Bear;
David Moretti as Papa Bear;
Jeffrey Auerbach as Baby Bear