A Dirty Shame (NC-17 Rated Theatrical Version)
by John Waters
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Actor: Chris Isaak, Johnny Knoxville, Mink Stole, Selma Blair, Tracey UllmanDirector: John Waters
Brand: NEW Line Home Video
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 88 minutes
Published: 2005-06-01
DVD Release Date: 2005-06-14
Audience Rating: NC-17
Studio: New Line Home Video
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- Are you ready for a movie that puts filth right where it belongs? Then get ready to laugh with A Dirty Shame--the latest raunchy riot from director John Waters (Hairspray). When a concussion awakens the carnal urges of Sylvia (Tracey Ullman), the people of Pinewood become pitted against each other in a battle of decency versus depravity.Running Time: 88 min. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COME
Movie Reviews of A Dirty Shame (NC-17 Rated Theatrical Version)
Movie Review: Waters's best film in years, stunningly so....
Summary: 5 Stars
I would like to visit Baltimore one of these days, as it has produced 3 of the greatest American artists ever. Philip Glass, Frank Zappa, and John Waters are those 3 artists. Glass and Zappa are generally accepted as artists, but Waters is one as well. He is similar to Russ Meyer, in that his films are considered "trash", but they are actually very funny, intelligent satires for the most part. Waters has raised trash to the level of art with Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble, and Desperate Living, and here he goes back to his roots and makes one of his best films in years.
This is one of the most consistently funniest films I've seen in a long time. I honestly don't understand why people, especially fans of Waters, don't like this film. It's absolutely hilarious, and consistently so. There isn't a lull in the whole film, like in a lot of modern comedies.
The film really is a throwback to Waters's early work, except with a bigger budget. It is nicer to look at than his 16mm work with Pink Flamingos, but this film really is something to see. I think the reason people hated this film (including many longtime Waters fans) is that it really is as subversive and as shocking as his early, underground work. It's massively pervertted from the first scene, and it never lets up throughout the whole film. It doesn't have any PC overtones to it at all (i.e. no messages at all other than people really need to f*** more, which is not a PC message), which makes it even more endearing to me. When I saw Pink Flamingos for the first time, I saw it around 1997. If I had seen it years before, I would have hated it. But after many, many years of PC attitudes, Pink Flamingos was a breath of fresh air. This film has that same spirit and is almost as funny (Pink is funnier, but this film still rocks).
People these days like to think they're "enlightened" towards sex, but they're not, really. They like Waters's early work because it came at a time when people were officially uptight. Nowadays, we pretend to be hip and "with it", but we really aren't. People nowadays are as uptight today as they were all those years ago, and that's why they don't like this film. It scares them.
There are many great performances here. They're deliciously over the top, but then, most of Waters's actors always go over the top. I especially liked Johnny Knoxville, who shows with a good filmmaker he can give a good performance. Tracey Ullman is wonderful, and so is, well, evreyone else. Some of the fetishes depicted here are rather out there, but who cares. They exist, and this film simply wants to educate us, I think. I don't know. I just know that I laughed like hell at this film. There are many great scenes (the "syphillis" advertisement, the sex addicts meeting), but my favorite has to be David Hasselhoff's appearance. When I saw him appear, and saw the book he was reading, I had to pause the DVD because I was laughing so hard. If you're a Waters's fan, you need to see this pronto. If you're not a Waters's fan, you need to become one and see this film. It's one of Waters's best films.
Summary of A Dirty Shame (NC-17 Rated Theatrical Version)
Are you ready for a movie that puts filth right where it belongs? Then get ready to laugh with A Dirty Shame--the latest raunchy riot from director John Waters (Hairspray). When a concussion awakens the carnal urges of Sylvia (Tracey Ullman), the people of Pinewood become pitted against each other in a battle of decency versus depravity.DVD Features:Audio Commentary:Feature commentary with John WatersDVD ROM Features:Documentary:"All the Dirt on A Dirty Shame" documentaryTheatrical Trailer:
When prissy, prickly Sylvia Stickles (Tracey Ullman) suffers a head injury during a traffic altercation, she's, er, revived by self-appointed sexual missionary Ray-Ray Perkins (Johnny Knoxville) and is transformed into an insatiable, take-no-prisoners sex maniac. Yes, it's a John Waters film. Yes, it's filthy. No, it's not as hilarious and sustained as you'd like it to be. It works for a while, though: Ullman, never a stingy comedienne, does everything Waters dares her to do without hesitation; words cannot describe the perversely sporting delight with which she mounts a water bottle during a round of "The Hokey Pokey" at an old folks' home. And there's some fun to be had when Sylvia's emancipation leads her Baltimore 'burb to new heights of ecstasy, freeing her large-breasted daughter Caprice (Selma Blair) while horrifying husband Vaughn (Chris Isaak) and her hardline mother Big Ethel (Suzanne Shepherd, hysterical) in the process. It's also packed with the standard cameos, the most satisfying of which is good old Patty Hearst at a Sex Addicts Anonymous encounter. But, for all the nasty, necessary glee, the movie feels inescapably been-there-done-that, and you can't help but wish this was 1972 and Divine was on hand to prowl for dog droppings. The most shocking thing about A Dirty Shame is how desperate and tiresome its anarchy becomes.--Steve Wiecking
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