A Dirty Shame NC 17
John Waters returns to his pervasive origins with a truly strange Baltimore homage to Dreamland and the players of his original cast. Most of them are dead. In this one the surviving cast plays cameo roles in the town's naughty district, which is adjacent to the prudish part of town. When a campaign to censor the perverts in town fails, the twisted family of a woman who has been conked on the head and turned horny seem to be to blame. It has no murder or mayhem but explores the same subject as Pecker, sex, but for even more gross out laughs. It really doesn't deserve an NC 17. It's really R but the actual censorship board didn't want a movie showing people faking enjoyment of sex. Had he included a murder they would have let that slide.
Review by Adam Browne
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