Synopsis
Sylvia Stickles runs a convenience store with her husband and mother-in-law. One day, Sylvia is hit on the head and transforms from an uptight prude to a sex-crazed lunatic. As she goes on a rampage through town, Sylvia attracts the attention of Ray Ray, a sexual healer and tow truck driver in search of the world's greatest orgasm. Their sexual revolution, however, causes a class war in their tiny Baltimore community.
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Cast
- Tracey UllmanSylvia Stickles
- Johnny KnoxvilleRay Ray Perkins
- Selma BlairCaprice Stickles
- Chris IsaakVaughn Stickles
- Suzanne ShepherdBig Ethel
- Mink StoleMarge the Neuter
- Patricia HearstPaige
- Jackie HoffmanDora
- Nicholas E.I. NobleWeird Paperboy
- Lucy Newman-WilliamsNeuter Yuppie Woman
Recommendations
- 88
Baltimore Sun
A Dirty Shame is certainly dirty, and maybe it's even a shame. But this is the John Waters we've come to know and cherish, and that alone is cause to celebrate. - 75
Rolling Stone
A Dirty Shame is Waters unleashed, and wicked, kinky fun for anyone except the twits who rated it NC-17. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
John Waters has returned to trashy form with what is unquestionably his most outrageous film since those heady "Pink Flamingos" days. - 60
New York Magazine (Vulture)
Despite its exuberant perversities, Waters’s take on erotomania is almost quaint. - 60
Variety
Frequently hilarious but ultimately is a protracted one-joke affair that strays into undisciplined chaos. - 60
Village Voice
Waters's far-from-phallocratic sexual democracy is not so much hilarious as goofy and more rousing than arousing. - 60
The A.V. Club
Embracing ugliness, lousy production values, and borderline hysteria as virtues, A Dirty Shame is one for the cultists, a proud retreat back into the sandbox of sexual juvenilia, a potty-mouthed manifesto from an elder statesman of shock. - 60
L.A. Weekly
I love what his films stand for -- inclusivity, tolerance, liberation and fun -- but I’ve always felt about his movies as I do about Monty Python: Half an hour is a riot; an hour and half starts to be a chore.
