Synopsis
A young lunatic director and his devoted cult of cinema terrorists kidnap a Hollywood movie goddess and force her to stair in their radical underground movie.
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Cast
- Melanie GriffithHoney Whitlock
- Stephen DorffCecil B. Demented
- Alicia WittCherish
- Adrian GrenierLyle
- Maggie GyllenhaalRaven
- Lawrence Gilliard Jr.Lewis
- Jack NoseworthyRodney
- Michael ShannonPetie
- Harry DodgeDinah
- Eric BarryFidget
Recommendations
- 80
Rolling Stone
DeMented is Waters the way we like him--spiked with laughs and served with a twist. - 80
Los Angeles Times
A fast, furious and funny fusillade of a movie. - 75
Christian Science Monitor
The comedy is frantic and tasteless in the usual Waters mode, but it takes telling potshots at the Hollywood establishment, which isn't nearly so open about the tackiness of its products. - 75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
It's Waters' way of saying: It's only a movie. - 70
Film.com
A small, scruffy, but agreeably energized comedy. - 70
Chicago Reader
Funnier than "Pecker" but a far cry from the best of Waters's Divine movies. - 70
L.A. Weekly
Neither Waters' funniest film nor, by a long chalk, his most radical. But it is, as promised, a passing of the torch and an article of suitably perverse faith in the next generation of nutso cinéastes. - 60
The New York Times
Consistently amusing and smart in its choice of targets, but it lacks the manic edge of some of Waters' earlier movies.
