A Dirty Shame
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| Directed by | John Waters |
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| Written by | John Waters |
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| Music by | George S. Clinton |
| Cinematography | Steve Gainer |
| Edited by | Jeffrey Wolf |
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89 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $15 million |
| Box office | $1.9 million |
A Dirty Shame is a 2004 American satirical sex comedy film written and directed by John Waters, and starring Tracey Ullman, Johnny Knoxville, Selma Blair, Chris Isaak, Suzanne Shepherd, and Mink Stole.
As of 2016[update], this is Waters' most recent directorial effort. He cites the film's poor box office returns as keeping his future projects from being green-lit but states that if someone provided funding for his next film, he'd make it "tomorrow".
The people of Harford Road are firmly divided into two camps: neuters, the puritanical residents who despise anything even remotely carnal; and the perverts, a group of sex addicts whose unique fetishes have all been brought to the fore by accidental concussions.
Repressed Sylvia Stickles finds herself firmly entrenched in the former camp. One day, after leaving her promiscuous daughter Caprice (nicknamed Ursula Udders because of gargantuan breasts and a penchant for indecent exposure while dancing at a local dive bar) locked up over the garage, under house arrest "for her own good", Sylvia is smacked on the head by a passing car and meets Ray-Ray Perkins, a local mechanic and self-styled "sex saint" who opens her mind to a whole new world of sensual pleasure, as he and his followers search for the ultimate sex act.
Eventually, through a series of bizarre head knockings, everyone in the Harford Road area of Baltimore becomes a sex addict, as Ray-Ray shoots semen out of his head, and becomes the messiah of "Let's Go Sexin'!".
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