Review of A Dirty Shame (2004) by Dr. N — 18 Jul 2011
This is really one of John Water's best films. A Dirty Shame tells the story of Sylvia (Tracey Ullman) a wife and mother who lives in Baltimore and appears to be incredibly uptight. One day on her way to work, she gets hit on the head hard and instantly becomes a complete sexual addict.
Being a John Waters film, A Dirty Shame is in incredibly awesome bad-taste. Essentially we have Johnny Knoxville, who leads a group of sexually obsessed people who is trying to get Sylvia to join his group, while her husband and others fight the perversion that is taking over Baltimore.
We get tons of hilarious profane dialogue and at one point Sylvia's vag even starts talking, its great. Just a great, ridiculous commentary on sexual wants/desires/perversions with a group that embraces it too ludicrous extremes and ones that don't to ludicrous extremes.
Probably one of my favorite Waters films.
This review of A Dirty Shame (2004) was written by Dr. N on 18 Jul 2011.
A Dirty Shame has generally received mixed reviews.
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