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  A Dirty Shame cinematronic
  director

John Waters

cast

Tracey Ullman, Johnny Knoxville, Chris Isaak, Selma Blair, Suzanne Shepherd, Mink Stole, Susan Allenback, Paul DeBoy, Wes Johnson, Alan J. Wendl, Patricia Hearst

year

2004

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  A lot of humorless prudes are offended and/or disgusted by the oeuvre of writer/director John Waters. It'll happen again with "A Dirty Shame," a farce about sex addicts taking over a Baltimore neighborhood. Waters — a droll fellow, best known for the film comedy and hit stage musical "Hairspray" — makes humanitarian statements in his work as he embraces vintage kitsch and gleefully pushes the gross-out envelope. While not as filthy as his signature movie "Pink Flamingos," "A Dirty Shame," with its sex-positive message, is wilder and raunchier than anything that Waters has done in years, and it's jammed with laughs. Waters has made less naughty films, such as "Cry-Baby" and "Serial Mom." That may explain why respectable, mass-appeal performers — comedienne Tracey Ullman, pop singer Chris Isaak and actress Selma Blair — were willing to be in "A Dirty Shame," which tracks like a weird sex-education film-cum-religious parable. It's no shock to see leering Johnny Knoxville ("Jackass") here as a truck driver/self-proclaimed sexual healer. But how surprising to find Ullman as a repressed housewife who turns into a vulgarity-spouting harlot after a blow to the head, Isaak as her frustrated husband, and Blair as their freakishly endowed daughter. Wacky archival clips, a randy pop-music score and Blair's phenomenally realistic latex breasts are bonus features in an already entertaining package.  
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