Synopsis
Blessed with a keen sense of smell and cursed with a philandering pornographer husband, a parasitic mother, and a pair of delinquent children, the long-suffering Francine Fishpaw turns to the bottle as her life falls apart -- until deliverance appears in the form of a hunk named Todd Tomorrow.
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Cast
- DivineFrancine Fishpaw
- Tab HunterTodd Tomorrow
- Edith MasseyCuddles Kovinsky
- David SamsonElmer Fishpaw
- Mary GarlingtonLu-Lu Fishpaw
- Ken KingDexter Fishpaw
- Mink StoleSandra Sullivan
- Joni Ruth WhiteLa Rue
- Hans KrammHeintz
- Stiv BatorsBo-Bo Belsinger
Recommandations
- 91
Entertainment Weekly
Polyester is a liberatingly crude satire of suburban mores. - 83
Entertainment Weekly
Long before Mel Brooks, trash aesthete John Waters was making movies dedicated to the proposition that life stinks. - 80
The New York Times
Polyester is not Mr. Waters's ordinary movie. It's a very funny one, with a hip, stylized humor that extends beyond the usual limitations of his outlook. - 80
Newsweek
A rancidly hilarious slice of Americana. [01 Jun 1981, p.91] - 75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Waters uses the tawdry in satirical celebration of itself - he's the red satin tassled plush pillow of filmmaking. [17 Sep 1981] - 70
Los Angeles Times
Polyester isn’t quite up to the low standards of Pink Flamingos, but it’s still a worthy effort by Waters. - 63
Washington Post
The new film, a fitfully amusing and perfectly harmless spoof of the morbid and masochistic cliches that sustain the typical soap opera, represents a mellow, spruced-up turn toward the mainstream. [06 Jul 1981, p.C3] - 60
Time Out
Likely to be criticised for being less than murky Waters, even with its 'Odorama' card to scratch for olfactory pleasures/displeasures; but then it's clear from an opening helicopter shot that bad taste has found the budget to go middle of the road.
