Desperate Living [VHS]

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	Actor(s):	Liz Renay Mink Stole Susan Lowe Edith Massey Mary Vivian Pearce
	Video by:	New Line Home Video
	Sales Rank:	258763

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Actor(s):
Liz Renay
Mink Stole
Susan Lowe
Edith Massey
Mary Vivian Pearce

Creators:
John Waters (Cinematographer)
John Waters (Producer)
John Waters (Writer)
Thomas Loizeaux (Cinematographer)
David Spencer (Producer)
James McKenzie (Producer)
William Platt (Producer)

Director(s):
John Waters

Recording label: New Line Home Video
EAN: 9786303614328
Binding: VHS Tape
ISBN: 0780607759
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC,
Release Date: 1997-07-01
Universal product code (UPC): 079404341583
Number of discs: 1
Audience rating: R (Restricted)

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Everyone in Desperate Living's Mortville has some horrible secret to hide. The mentally unstable Peggy Gravel (Mink Stole, in a superb display of overacting) and her 300-pound-plus maid Grizelda must take it on the lam after Grizelda smothers Peggy's husband under her elephantine buttocks. They find themselves in Mortville, a shanty fiefdom ruled by the grotesque Queen Carlotta (the incomparable Edith Massey). The evil queen delights in tormenting her subjects, but Peggy and Grizelda soon team up with a pair of lesbian outcasts, and a rebellion is in the air. John Waters's Desperate Living takes on the air of a seedy, trash fairy tale as the humiliated residents of Mortville rise up against the queen and the cursed princess finds herself in a power struggle against her mother. Notable for the absence of Waters regular Divine, this movie pushes the rest of the cast to their over-the-top best. Fifties sex bomb Liz Renay has a great time as Muffy St. Jacques, half of the lesbian couple, and was still looking great by the '70s. The tumbledown sets of Mortville add a surreal touch to the movie, but Edith Massey steals every scene she's in as the hateful, repulsive Queen Carlotta. Note that the actors' breath is clearly visible in many scenes; it was filmed outdoors in a bitter Baltimore winter. Nasty, shabby, gross, and hilarious, this is John Waters at his best. --Jerry Renshaw

Running time: 90 minutes
Language: English (Unknown)