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starring: Divine, Mary Vivian Pearcedirected by: John Waters
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 0017533000834
Label: Cinema Group Home Video
Manufacturer: Cinema Group Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publication Date: 1987
Publisher: Cinema Group Home Video
Running Time: 95 unknown-units
Sales Rank: 14066
Studio: Cinema Group Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1970
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Product Description:
The first feature film directed by self-proclaimed 'Prince of Puke' John Waters, this black-and-white, mostly silent comedy cost just 2000 dollars. Mondo Trasho looks its budget, but has some amusing moments as it tells the story of a woman (Mary Vivian Pearce) who has a very bad day. First, she is accosted in the park by a foot-fetishist who sucks her toes. When she runs away, she is hit by a car. The driver, played by 300-lb. transvestite Divine, lost control of the wheel while staring at a naked man (Mark Isherwood) hitch-hiking by the roadside. Divine takes Pearce along with her, shoplifting some clothes to dress her victim. Unfortunately, both women are kidnapped by a mad doctor (David Lochary) who amputates Pearce's feet, replacing them with those of a chicken. She eventually gets her feet back, gaining magical powers that let her click her heels like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz to escape her situation. Divine is not so lucky, however, and meets her doom in a muddy pigsty. Pearce materializes in downtown Baltimore, where elderly local women with beehive hairdos curse at her until she clicks her heels again and disappears. There isn't much here for casual viewers, as only die-hard Waters fans are likely to countenance the long stretches in which virtually nothing happens. A few laughs are to be had, but not enough to sustain interest, as Waters did not really hit his stride until Multiple Maniacs the following year. At its best, this very rough amateur film suggests interesting ways to tell a story without dialogue, as Waters uses evocative old trash-rock songs to advance the plot. At its worse, it's a bore, of interest to devotees and completists only. Robert Firsching
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - An primer on that Divine "Wiggle"
This one is the first of the Prince Of Puke- John Waters' "MastUrpieces" that you can see. It is silent, except for all the cheesy 50's "trash music" that Waters is infamous for using, and also poorly lip sync'd vain babbling by our HIroine, the fabulous 300 pound monstrosity, Divine!
Follow Divine's treck down the yellow brick road, when she gets involved in the life of Mary Vivian Pierce, runs her over, then attempts to "save" her through the services of the Virgin Mary and Doctor ... Read More
Rating:  - 2000 dollars...
This film cost 2000 dollars and was probably filmed with only one camcorder. It is an art film though, art films are supposed to be cheap and grainy. They are also supposed to be some sort of metaphor, either that or wierd for the sake of wierd. This wasn't really either. What this film is, though, the closest that John Waters ever came to becoming a Bunuelian clone.
The review provided by Amazon gives the wrong summary. I won't give it here, because it is not really worth recalling. Ms. Pierce ... Read More
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