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John Waters - what members say
review by A customer from medway towns
Brilliant, offbeat slice of life 6 October 2004
review by from West Midlands
Moms Know Best !! 23 January 2007
review by Hurdlemagurdle from Scotland
Took a while... 20 May 2004
John Waters - filmography
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William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
(2010)
Starring: David Cronenberg, Gus Van Sant, Peter Weller
Director: Yony Leyser
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Born the heir of the Burroughs' adding machine estate, William S. Burroughs struggled throughout his life with addiction, control systems and relationships. He was forced to deal with the tragedy of killing his wife and the repercussions of neglecting his son. His novel, "Naked Lunch," was one of ..read more »
 
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That Man: Peter Berlin
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Rick Castro, Armistead Maupin, Wakefield Poole
Director: Jim Tushinki
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Imagine yourself in mid-seventies San Fransisco, and you'll be able to conjure up images of the legendary Peter Berlin. Sex and style oozed from this man in skintight white pants, leather accountrements and smooth, shoulder-length blond hair. After just two remarkable 16mm pron films, he vanished ..read more »
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from 438 members
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John Waters - This Filthy World
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: John Waters
Director: Jeff Garlin
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An icon of the 20th century, famed for films such as Hairspray, Serial Mom, Pink Flamingos, Cry Baby and Polyester, This Filthy World is John Waters� one-man show, a "vaudeville" act that celebrates the film career and tastes of the man William Burroughs once called "The Pope of Trash". Focusing ..read more »
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from 1,416 member
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Midnight Movies - Deluxe Edition
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: John Waters, David Lynch, George A Romero
Director: Stuart Samuels
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Based on the book by Stuart Samuels, MIDNIGHT MOVIES examines the phenomenal success of six films that went on to become cult sensations. While only six films might seem like a rather small piece of a broader picture, each were chosen for the dramatic impact they had and have stood the test of time ..read more »
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from 480 members
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Sweet And Lowdown
(1999)
Starring: Sean Penn, Samantha Morton, Uma Thurman
Director: Woody Allen
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Allen's pseudo-biopic about 1930's jazz guitarist Emmet Ray (Penn) is a personal tribute by the director to a period of musical history that has inspired and influenced him greatly. Penn immerses himself into the role of the boozing, womanizing Ray with his usual intensity (this time, with a comic ..read more »
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from 2,987 members
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Pecker
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Edward Furlong, Christina Ricci, Beth Armstrong
Director: John Waters
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The winning 10th feature from John Waters straddles a fine line between the eager vulgarity of his earlier works and the sloppy sweetness of HAIRSPRAY and CRY-BABY. Set, as usual, in Baltimore, the film stars Edward Furlong as Pecker, a sweet-natured young fellow who happily passes the days ..read more »
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from 2,298 members
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Serial Mom
(1994)
Starring: Kathleen Turner, Sam Waterston, Ricki Lake
Director: John Waters
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Happy homemaker Beverly Sutphin (Kathleen Turner) has a charmed life--a beautiful suburban home, a successful dentist husband (Sam Waterston), and two normal teenagers, Misty (Ricki Lake) and Chip (Matthew Lillard). But she also has a good deal of underlying rage waiting to escape....Just be sure ..read more »
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from 3,973 members
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Cry Baby - Blu-ray
(1990)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Amy Locane, Susan Tyrrell
Director: John Waters
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John Waters does a quirky spin on '50s nostalgia in Cry-Baby, his musical homage to Rebel Without a Cause and Romeo and Juliet. Set in Baltimore in 1954 at the birth of rock & roll, the film features Johnny Depp as Wade Cry-Baby Walker. Depp is pure charisma as a juvenile delinquent with a ..read more »
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from 16 members
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Cry Baby
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Amy Locane, Susan Tyrrell
Director: John Waters
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John Waters does a quirky spin on '50s nostalgia in Cry-Baby, his musical homage to Rebel Without a Cause and Romeo and Juliet. Set in Baltimore in 1954 at the birth of rock & roll, the film features Johnny Depp as Wade Cry-Baby Walker. Depp is pure charisma as a juvenile delinquent with a ..read more »
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from 5,167 members
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Divine Trash
(1988)
Starring: John Waters, Divine, Jeanine Basinger
Director: Steve Yeager
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A look at the early career of cult filmmaker John Waters from his childhood puppet shows in his native Baltimore to the successful release of Pink Flamingos (USA/1972), widely regarded as the most important underground film ever made; the overview paints a portrait of a fiercely dedicated and ..read more »
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Hairspray
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Divine, Michael St. Gerard, Ricki Lake
Director: John Waters
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Forever interested in the kitsch built into past eras, director John Waters chooses the TV dance show craze of the early '60s for his playful focus in Hairspray. Ricki Lake plays Tracy Turnblad, just one of several alliteratively named characters coming of age in 1962 Baltimore, where The Corny ..read more »
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from 5,696 members
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Something Wild
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Jeff Daniels, Melanie Griffith, Ray Liotta
Director: Jonathan Demme
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Melanie Griffith and Jeff Daniels star in this quirky road movie from director Jonathan Demme (MARRIED TO THE MOB, SILENCE OF THE LAMBS). Charlie Driggs (Daniels) is a timid New York investment broker who lets himself be abducted during his lunch hour by an attractive nut named Lulu (Griffith). ..read more »
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from 1,137 member
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Polyester
(1981)
Starring: Divine, Edith Massey, Tab Hunter
Director: John Waters
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A suburban housewife's world falls apart when her pornographer husband admits he's serially unfaithful to her, her daughter gets pregnant, and her son is suspected of being the foot-fetishist who's been breaking local women's feet.
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from 142 members
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Breaker Morant
on DVD
(1980)
Starring: Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson, Bryan Brown
Director: Bruce Beresford
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One of a crop of impressive films to arrive from Australia in the late 1970s and early 1980s, BREAKER MORANT marked Bruce Beresford as a director to watch. Based on a play by Kenneth G. Ross, the film is a tersely dramatic account of the true story of the court-martial of three soldiers attached to ..read more »
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from 960 members
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Desperate Living
(1977)
Starring: Liz Renay, Mink Stole, Susan Lowe
Director: John Waters
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A rich housewife enlists her maid's help to murder her husband; they go on the lam and end up in Mortville, a homeless community built into a garbage dump.
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from 115 members
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The Perfectionist
on DVD
Starring: Jacki Weaver, John Waters, Noel Ferrier
Director: Chris Thomson
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When Barbara Gunn shocks her husband with her decision to return to work and earn a university degree, she hires a handsome young man to take care of her children and gets more than she bargained for...
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from 19 members
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John Waters facts
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...ame of a young photographer and how his fame affects his family and friends.
John Waters' fillums are often meant to shock you out of your view of what's normal in life...
