A Dirty Shame (DVD)

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TITLE: Dirty Shame, A

RATING: ****½

CAST: Tracey Ullman, Johnny Knoxville, Selma Blair, Chris Isaak, Suzanne Sheperd, Mink Stole, Patricia Hearst, Jackie Hoffman, Nicholas Noble, Lucy Newman-Williams, Scott Morgan, Wes Johnson, David A. Dunham, David Moretti, Jeffrey Auerbach, Jewel Orem, David Hasselhoff.

DIRECTOR: John Waters

SCREENWRITER: John Waters

STUDIO: New Line Cinema / Fine Line Features / This Is That / Killer Films

RUNNING TIME: 89 min.

RATED: NC-17 (US) & 18 (UK); for some nudity (both male and female), pervasive & frank sexual talk/language, adult subject matter, comic violence, and squirrel sex.

DVD AVAILABILITY: 6 GBP on Amazon; ASIN # B000A3OON6

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INTRODUCTION
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WARNING!

The sexual acts in this film were performed by professionals, so for your safety and the protection of those around you, do not attempt any of the sexual acts you are about to see…unless it is behind close doors.

SECOND WARNING!

This review gets occasionally graphic because I think it would have been impossible to review this movie without mentioning some of the extreme dirty things within it. So, if you are easily offended, I recommend that you not read it; I just want to warn people what they are getting into if they decide to watch this film.

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SAILORS SMILING BUT NOT SPLOSHING
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By now, many of you are aware that I was in the military for 8 years and I can tell you that all the stories are true about sailors: they ARE addicted to sex! While the ship was underway at sea, sex would be practically the primary topic of conversation; I actually knew a guy who was married for 9 years and had five kids and he said he slept with a hooker in practically every port he went to; lol, I guess his wife’s nude pictures were not enough to satisfy him. In the Philippines, there is a “hush-hush” game known only as Smiles, which is where everyone sits around a table in a bar; while everyone is drinking, they each have a girl under the table giving them oral sex…and the first one that smiles is the one that buys the next round of drinks! In addition, in Thailand, there is a club which has every Monday night something called the “Banana Show”…and I’m sure many of you could guess what it entails without me describing it. Now, some of you are probably thinking that “Ok, I believe all that, but I cannot fathom them happening anywhere else but in third-world countries or university dorms!”

Before I saw the comedy A DIRTY SHAME, I thought I had seen everything in terms of fetishes and weird sexual acts, but I was so wrong! Granted, in today’s world of Viagra, internet porn, and virginal rehabilitations (I’ll explain later), there are a lot out there we don’t know about, and perhaps don’t want to know about that. So, you might not even be interested in watching this film after reading this review; all I ask is that you wait until the section of Quotes, and then make your decision. God help me, but A DIRTY SHAME is one of the most outrageous, deliciously clever, bizarrely appealing, and funniest films I’ve ever seen, period. I think I laughed more times watching this film than WEDDING CRASHERS, THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY, OFFICE SPACE, and THE NAKED GUN all combined. Of course, those movies are a lot more popular---and less controversial---than this film, and I’m sure that if A DIRTY SHAME had been released anytime during the 20th century, it would have been banned.

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A WOMAN WHO CRAVES FOR PINK STEEL
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Meet Sylvia Stickles (Tracey Ullman), an uptight, conservative housewife in her early 40s living in Baltimore, Maryland; she runs a downtown convenience store along with her mother Big Ethel (Suzanne Shepherd), and her husband Vaughn (Chris Isaak). She also has a daughter she is ashamed of: her name is Caprice, a.k.a. Ursula Udders (Selma Blair), she is a nymphomaniac, and she has a set of breasts so huge she looks as though she was injected with enough silicone to kill a small elephant. Sylvia and Ethel are Neuters, which are individuals who have gotten repulsed with how much the world has been corrupted by perversions and they complain about things like going to the cinema and sitting next to people who masturbate, as well as the fact that lesbians have taken over the local softball field. As Sylvia is driving to work one morning she runs out of gas on the road, and gets out of the car…only to be suddenly slammed in the head by a lawn mower in a passing vehicle.

Enter Ray Ray Perkins (Johnny Knoxville), a handyman who sees this happen to Sylvia and looks upon her as a “burning bush” when he sees her vagina having metaphorical flames. We soon learn that Ray Ray is a like a sexual Tyler Durden, a pied piper for people with sexual addictions, complete with a healing power for certain things like herpes and syphilis; after he goes down on Sylvia, it releases her “inner whore” and now she goes on a quest to fulfill her exploding carnal urges. She had rejected her husband that morning, but when she meets him at the convenience store, she begs him for some “funch” (read: f*cking after lunch). That night, she goes out to Ray Ray’s lair, and meets all the other people who have joined his little cult after getting concussions on their heads, turning them all into sex addicts. For example, there is a woman named Messy Melinda who is into “sploshing,” which is the erotic urge to dump food all over your private areas; hey, don’t ask me, apparently it’s a fetish that originated in England---there is actually a magazine that is put out every month too!

Meanwhile, while all of this is going on, Big Ethel and the other Neuters in the town are determined to throw a decency rally at the local church. When Big Ethel saves her daughter and granddaughter at a biker bar after they get more concussions, they join together to go to the rally and meet other recovering sex addicts, such as a couple who are into “Roman Showers”. However, Ray Ray shows up and turns everyone completely around again and proclaims “Let’s Go Sexin’! As a result, Baltimore has become a city where people are now having sex in the streets and having the ultimate goal of inventing a new sexual act that has never been done before; however, the Neuters have had enough, so they form a resistance and all hell breaks loose…leading to a full scale war!!!!!

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BANGIN’ IN BALTIMORE
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This original, whacked out comedy was written and directed by John Waters; if you never heard of him before, Waters is a filmmaker who makes all his films in Baltimore, and has always been considered an acquired taste…a VERY acquired taste to be honest. He started out by making low-budget underground films which deal with perversions and fetishes, such as PINK FLAMINGOS, a tale of a bunch of trailer trash individuals who complete for the title of “The Filthiest Person Alive.” However, in 1988, he made a complete U-turn and made the clean, PG-rated HAIRSPRAY, a joyous, upbeat comedy about a nice chunky girl who becomes a star on a radio show in 1963; the film later morphed into a megahit Broadway musical and a new film version is being released this summer starring John Travolta---who is in drag for the first time in his career!

Since HAIRSPRAY, Waters has made a string of likeably sweet films such as CRY-BABY (with Johnny Depp), SERIAL MOM (with Kathleen Turner), and PECKER (with Edward Furlong); A DIRTY SHAME came along in 2004, and it serves as a mild return to the weird, irreverent films he made in the 1970s and early 80s. Waters was actually inspired to make this film after reading an article in a medical journal that said that a blow to the brain can, in fact, cause carnal lust in a small percentage of patients; he pitched A DIRTY SHAME to the studio as a “cunnilingus concussion comedy,” and a “Three Stooges sex education film for head injury sufferers” and it was made in 30 days for not much money. Waters did months and months of research (mostly on the Internet), to make a film which no doubt discusses (and makes fun of) every single fetish and sexual act on the planet; I’m serious, his screenplay is a virtual encyclopedia of sexual or fetish terms, many of which I had never heard of, and I’m sure most of you haven’t either. Here is just a short list (the complete list would have over 100 terms):

Red Wings --- A man giving a woman oral sex while she is having her period; it is actually a biker initiation.

Roman Showers --- I’m sure some of you have heard of “golden showers” which involves urine; well “roman showers” involves vomit.

Upper Decker --- When someone leaves a turd in the upper tank portion of the toilet that is covered to hide the smell.

Infantilism --- Adults who pretend to be babies and wear diapers as a fetish; hell, I’ll never look at a car “Baby on Board” sign the same way again!

Blossoms --- Too dirty to describe here; if you really want to know, ask me in my private guestbook and I will tell you; even Waters does not define it in the film, though he does in the documentary on the DVD.

Felching --- Way too disgusting to describe here, though again ask me in PGB if you REALLY want to know; Waters stipulates that he is sure that no one has ever done this before, though he did discover the term on the Internet.

Bear Lovers --- Homosexual males who lust after big, hairy men; there are papa bears and bear cubs who are looking for significant "otters."

Virginal Rehabilitations --- An operation for females where you can get your hyman sewed back up and then receive gelatin capsules filled with blood available to inject into their vagina so that during sex with their partner, the capsules will break and make the men think they are having sex with a virgin. (I’m not making this up; apparently, they DO exist!)

Personally, I’ve never done of these things and don’t really want to for that matter (yes, I'm very much a Neuter!), but I have to say I just think it is funny that the film dares to make fun of these things; it’s like walking around in a video store and you see these titles that people give to dirty movies like “Saving Ryan’s Privates,” “Schindler’s Fist,” and “Lord of the G-Strings,” you know. If anything, I think A DIRTY SHAME is a brilliant social commentary on people’s addiction, acceptance, tolerance and repulsion for all these sex acts and perversions.

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THIS CAST GOES SEXIN’!
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I must confess that I have heard and seen very little of British comedienne Tracey Ullman, although she deserves all the respect in the world from fans of the “The Simpsons” because she is the one responsible for introducing Matt Groening’s famous creation on her 1980s self-titled show, which won her a score of Emmys,, BBFAs and other awards. I did think she was funny as Latrine in ROBIN HOOD: MEN IN TIGHTS, though I wasn’t prepared for her sensational, fearlessly over-the-top performance as Sylvia Stickles; she reminds one of Anne Heche, with her hilarious “I’m In! I’m Out!, I’m In! I’m Out!” attitude. She truly does steal the whole show in the sequence at the retirement home, where she dances to the Hokey Pokey and stuns all the senior citizens there when she picks up a water bottle…though she doesn’t do it using her hands!

While I do like the JACKASS films for what they are, normally I would state that calling Johnny Knoxville an actor would be like calling a skateboard transportation; though he is actually quite good here as Ray Ray, and has never been better before or since. Chris Isaak is more known to people as an indie rock singer who combines country, blues, and surf rock; he has one of his few acting roles in A DIRTY SHAME and is fun to watch as Ullman’s onscreen husband. Many of the other cast members are veterans of Waters’ other films, including Patty Hearst…yes, the SAME Patty Hearst who was kidnapped in 1974 by the Sibionese Liberation Army and was held captive for two months---and ultimately was forced to participate in the robbing of a bank which landed her in jail.

I love Selma Blair, who is one of the only actresses today who is beautiful and can act; she played with Reese Witherspoon in the hits CRUEL INTENTIONS and LEGALLY BLONDE and she handles herself well here in A DIRTY SHAME, considering the fact she is forced to work with a pair of giant prosthetic boobs, which she wears in the whole film. The scene in the biker bar where she reveals the whole package is eye-popping because they actually look REAL; she was a good sport to actually do all this, and she deserves a lot of credit. Suzanne Shepherd, who many of you may recognize as Mary de Angelis on TV’s “The Sopranos” is a riot as Big Ethel, who bands the Neuters together. Finally, for those of you who are fans of David Hasselhoff: he has a brief cameo near the end as an airplane passenger who needs to relieve himself in the bathroom.

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THE SHRINKING OF SELMA
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In this section, I will reveal to you how A DIRTY SHAME came under fire because of American censorship; the film was rated 18 in the UK, so I’m assuming that the BBFC really didn’t have a problem with anything in the film and just threw it out there, though I’m sure if the film came out before 1999, then the film might have been banned, or even released as one of those infamous “video nasties.” However, when Waters originally submitted the film to the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), he got the dreaded rating of NC-17 (No children under 17 admitted period), which basically means it can be released in only limited theaters, and that big outlet stores and video rental shops cannot carry it for rental or sale because they are supposed to have “family friendly” environments. Now bear in mind that this film is ultimately about decency vs. depravity, and also to a larger extent, conservative ideals vs. liberal ideals; the irony is that the MPAA’s mission is to limit depravity in motion pictures for parent’s sake and it is virtually run and controlled by conservatives.

John Waters was really surprised when he got the NC-17 rating and the MPAA said in response, “You WERE surprised?,” and when Waters asked them what the offensive points were to be cut, the MPAA said they stopped taking notes after a half hour. Waters was infuriated and I can kind of understand why, to explain: while A DIRTY SHAME sounds exploitative in terms of sexuality, Waters states: “I felt I was being responsible because I was showing sex that is safe, sure it may be perverted, but it is SAFE, meaning you cannot get pregnant, you can’t get AIDS, etc. I mean, personally, I would feel better as a parent if my 13-year-old daughter was sploshing instead of having sex or giving blowjobs!” In addition, there were allegedly doctors who demanded that Waters explain to the MPAA what terms like “felching” and “blossoms” were, even though it is impossible to prove what they really mean, because Waters is convinced they have never done even though they are defined on the Internet; what is funny is that he didn’t say what they really meant, he just said in an sarcastic tone that “felching” was when “someone farts in the bathtub and someone else bites the bubbles.”

When the film was finally released with the NC-17 rating, many of the posters promoting the film were tampered with by another censorship group because of Selma Blair’s breasts; in the big cities such as New York and L.A. the posters were not changed, but in the Midwest, Selma’s breasts were reduced in size, and in Utah (Mormon country), the breasts were VERY small. I’m not joking about this, and it is just ridiculous that people have jobs doing this crap. Finally, when the film was set to be released on DVD in America, Waters was forced to re-cut it and release a censored version known as A DIRTY SHAME: THE NEUTER VERSION; it has nothing in it, and Waters jokingly refers to it as “the baby version….if your ever wanted 8-year-olds to come over to your house for a birthday party and have them watch a film about sex addicts…This is the film for your family!” I admit that this film certainly isn’t for all tastes, and I don’t think it is for young children (under 13) to watch, but the sexual material is not explicit in any way; I mean, it shows a lot of people making out but they are all wearing clothes, and granted there is a lot of talk about sex and but it never shows it.

Another strong point I want to make that unlike many other crude comedies with a lot of sexual content, A DIRTY SHAME is not anti-women; if anything, it is pro-women even though it makes CALENDER GIRLS look like LITTLE WOMEN. For example, the older Neuters in the film complain about their husbands using Viagra, and I actually sympathize with them because the medical community never really asked women how they feel about Viagra when it was introduced. Granted, I may be wrong, but I just don’t think that a lot of women in their 60s and 70s want to have sex every second of the day like they may have used to when they were younger (read quote #5). Also, apparently a lot of the women who viewed the film in the screening stage before Waters had to cut it demanded that the male nudity be kept in because so many other films just want to show a female naked, and they found the male nudity very refreshing; by the way, the MPAA is notorious for demanding cuts of all male nudity, and just keeping female nudity…does that make any sense???

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COMING OUT OF THE SECOND CLOSET
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Don’t worry, the “Neuter Version” is not available in the UK, so you all get to view A DIRTY SHAME in all its uncut, uncensored glory, and there is a plethora of special features which you should check out. First up is an audio commentary by writer-director John Waters and he comes off as being very amusing, charming and funny when you may think he is just a dirty old man (he is 60 years old now). Among other things, he talks about casting everyone, including Johnny Knoxville because he felt that Knoxville’s JACKASS persona was very close in spirit to many of things that distinguished Water’s underground 70s films, and felt he was perfect for Ray Ray. Waters says that he wanted Baltimore to appear as a “landscape of lust” and he uses a lot of phallic and vagina symbols which naturally appear on shrubbery, trees and rocks; consequently, he cleverly injects a lot of religious images too, including the “burning bush,” the “moth coming out of the mouth,” and having characters walking on water and doing other spiritual miracles near the end. What I thought was the most ingenious is that Waters made the flow of the film similar to if you were actually having sex…complete with an exploding climax at the end of the film. There is also a crew commentary, though I found it less interesting even though they talk about the technical aspects and made some great jokes along the way.

The main attraction in the special features is the 82 minute documentary “All the Dirt on A DIRTY SHAME” which is divided into many amusingly titled chapters, such as “The Noah’s Ark of Perversions” and “Looking for Lusty Trees.” It covers virtually EVERYTHING about the film including the production, the casting, the direction, and it interviews practically every single cast and crew member involved. What was interesting is that all of the extras were given “sex partners” which they were paired with to make out with; incidentally, one female cast members got so into her part that she started humping a crew member, thinking it was a cast member!!! The filmmakers also got to interview the editor-in-chief of Splosh! Magazine, who prints his magazines some where in the south coast of England. Waters also talks about the montages that take place when a character gets a concussion; there is basically a series of images from very old nudist camp and sexploitation films which show how the character changes.

Tracey Ullman reveals that she had reservations about playing Sylvia, and even her 12-year old son told her: “Mum, you cannot do this film, it talks about your vagina!” Then Ullman said to him that Johnny Knoxville was in it, and her son completely reversed his opinion and said that she must do it! Plus, Suzanne Shepherd admits that when she first read the script that she was so appalled by the material that she was crying and was determined not to do the film---until she met John Waters, and liked him so much that she gave in; she states that “it was the most fun I ever had worked in films, hands down!” They also interview Tony Gardner, who designed Selma’s breasts; people who were not directly involved in the film would assume they were quite real; in fact, one crew member said that when his wife came in to deliver him lunch, she said to him: “Oh, my God, that poor woman! Is she deformed?” To be honest with you, I find the documentary just as entertaining as the movie; rounding out the special features is a deleted scene that involves a snake coming out of Johnny Knoxville’s crotch, as well as a theatrical trailer.

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YOU WILL NEVER HEAR THE HOKEY POKEY THE SAME WAY AGAIN
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One element of A DIRTY SHAME that is so wonderful---an unconventional---is the soundtrack, which is comprised of mostly nostalgic chestnuts and oldies from the 1950s and 1960s!!! Waters and his music supervisor Larry Benicewicz perfectly choose some songs which have a real sweetness to them and they really give the film an aura of---dare I say it---innocence, believe it or not. There is a great little unknown tune playing on Sylvia’s radio early on called “The Pussy Cat Song,” which is from the late 1950s (though you wouldn’t think it after listening to it) and is sung by Connie Vellet, which goes: “My pussycat was scratching my back door / Scratched so long poor pussy got sore / Sore pussy ooh / Sore pussy ooh / Just a friendly little cat / It got so sore my pussy got wet!” Of course, what I thought was hilarious is that when Sylvia turns off her radio, she sees two lesbians coming out of a store singing the exact same song! I also loved it when they play “On Top of Spaghetti” by Tom Glazer and the Do Re Me Children’s Choir in the scene where Messy Melinda is dumping canned spaghetti all over her breasts in the convenience store---it made me blush and laugh hysterically at the same time.

There are other favorites such as “Eager Beaver Baby” by Johnny Burnette, “Goo-Goo Dada” by the Carlisles, “The Backwards Alphabet” by Soupy Sales, “Captain Chipmunk” by Alvin and the Chipmunks, “I’m On Fire” by Jerry Lee Lewis, “Hump-A-Baby” by Little Ritchie, “(Baby Let Me) Bang Your Box” by Doug Clark and the Hot Nuts, and “Moanin” by Screamin’ Jay Hawkins. The music score was done by George S. Clinton, and he also did, along with singer James Intveld, the original song called “Let’s Go Sexin’”---man, that song should have gotten an Oscar nomination for how outrageous it is. Another song that is played several times in the film is “Red Hot” by Billy Lee Riley, which serves almost as theme to Selma Blair’s character. I have just ordered the soundtrack because I loved it so much; it is available for 13 GBP from Amazon, and the ASIN is B00009PQGUO.

In conclusion, I want to say that if you are not interested in seeing the film (after reading the quotes that is), then I completely understand and just hope you enjoyed reading my review and weren’t offended in anyway; this was without a doubt, the most difficult review I’ve ever had to write, because I wanted to explain why I loved it even though it sounds rather disturbing because of the plot as well as all the sexual vocabulary and jargon. Plus, I apologize about the length of the review (hope it didn’t bore you), but I did a lot of research on this film, and I think all the information was relevant to the review in terms of consumers making a decision to rent or buy it. At any rate, hope you find all the quotes as funny as I did; if you didn’t, you might think I’m weird which is ok too. The awesome dvd of A DIRTY SHAME is available for 13 GBP, and the ASIN is B000A3OON6.

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QUOTES IN WATERS’ SCREENPLAY
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1) “You got arrested for indecent exposure and drunk driving while nude!” --- Tracey Ullman “I wasn’t drunk, I was on pills! You are such a Neuter, mother!” --- Selma Blair “There is something seriously wrong with your vagina!” --- Tracey Ullman

2) “Mr. Sarkles, my name is Fat F*ck Frank, and I’m your daughter’s number one fan! Can I please see her?” --- Wes Johnson “I’m sorry, but Caprice is retired, she is no longer in show business!” --- Chris Isaak

3) “Don’t you find it funny that every man in this neighborhood has a penis???” --- Susan Allenback “Well….not really, Betty!” --- Chris Isaak

4) “I found a used condom in my backyard.” --- Suzanne Sheperd “You think that is bad: someone sprayed the word ‘boner’ on my wall.” --- Mink Stole “Forget all that: I found a dildo in my neighbor’s wishing well! Something must be done about all this!!!” --- Susan Rome

5) “My husband is now on Viagra, and now he wants it every second!” --- Mink Stole “Oh, you poor thing! Men have no right to be that hard!” --- Suzanne Sheperd “Yes, I’m viaggravated and I’m not going to take it anymore!!!” --- Mink Stole

6) “Wait, it is not safe out there: people are shaving their crotches! There is pubic hair in the air…everywhere!” --- Suzanne Shepherd

7) “Honey, do you wanna go yodeling in the canyon?” --- Tracey Ullman “Now? We have to go see my mother…” --- Chris Isaak “Come on, baby…discover the oyster! Oh, yes, yes, YES! Now that’s what I call sneezing in the cabbage!!!” --- Tracey Ullman

8) “Look, I’m not a prude---I’m married to an Italian---but I’m getting disgusted about all of this. I live next to some people who call it the Bear House…they were having sex in the yard and my children could see them! I yelled at them to stop and they just growled at me!!!” --- Lucy Newman-Williams

9) “I heard your daughter picked up a water bottle with her cooter at the old folks’ home!” --- Housewife Neuter “No, that cannot be true! My daughter is a good girl: she HATES sex!” --- Suzanne Sheperd

10) “I’m Loose Linda, and I f*cked the entire Hartford roads police department.” --- Jewel Orem “You have no idea of the liberating power you get from sex. My name is Paw Paw, and I’m on Bush patrol!! --- Richard Pelzman

11) “You may know us as your neighbors, but here at Ray Ray’s we are into human sandwiches!” --- Susan Allenbeck “We hope that you can be our lettuce one day Sylvia!” --- Paul DeBoy

12) “Hey, I’m Cow Patty, and I’m the only Goldilocks in this bear cave. I’m a bear hag and this is what we call bear soup! --- Woman in the House full of Bear Lovers

13) “Let’s have a mother-daughter chat. I’m so sorry I spoke so harshly about your vagina this morning! To make it up to you, I brought you your fan mail! The postal worker sent you a photo of his unit! Look how huge it is!” --- Tracey Ullman

14) “Mother, I’m a sex addict, an exhibitionist, and I’m your daughter!” --- Selma Blair “Oh, Ursula, I’m so proud of you! I’m a sex addict too, I’m a cunnilingus bottom, and I’m your mother. Come on, honey, let’s go down to the Holiday House and f*ck the whole bar!!!” --Tracey Ullman

15) “Because of your criminally enlarged breasts, the bloodstream flow to your brain is blocked, which is making you seriously depressed.” --- Doctor “No! I refuse to take Prozac!” --- Selma Blair “Afterwards we will schedule you for a breast reduction operation!” --- Suzanne Shepherd

16) “My name is Dora, and I’m a chronic masturbator. I’ve been sober for two weeks now! Oh man, all this chanting is giving me a Swedish headache!” --- Jackie Hoffman

17) “Let me be your sponsor, Sylvia. You must admit to God you are a whore! Make a list of all the people you f*cked and apologize to their parents!!!” --- Patricia (Patty) Hearst

18) “You know how long your father had to wait??? It was a long, hard road to get to this vagina!!!” --- Suzanne Shepherd

19) “What’s the matter with you people? You are all wasting valuable sex time! Seduce your sponsor, one f*ck at a time!!!” --- Johnny Knoxville “Hey, you let my mother’s vagina alone!!!” --- Selma Blair

20) “I’ve had enough of this Sylvia…now come home to my penis where you belong!” --- Chris Isaak “No,Vaughn… I’m now a libertine!” --- Tracey Ullman “I say no to sexual addiction!” --- Chris Isaak “Yeah, you will get a yeast infection!!!” --- Suzanne Shepherd

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TRIVIA & CRITIC’S CORNER
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TRIVIA NOTE #1: Johnny Knoxville loved working with John Waters so much on A DIRTY SHAME that he later asked Waters to be in JACKASS: NUMBER TWO; Waters is the magician who makes Wee-Man “disappear.”

TRIVIA NOTE #2: Tracey Ullman also gives the voice of her vagina in one sequence when it starts to talk.

TRIVIA NOTE #3: Ricki Lake, who is in most of John Waters’ films and starred in the original HAIRSPRAY, wasn’t available to do this film; however, she does turn up in archive footage from her talk show.

CRITIC’S QUOTE #1: “Is it raunchy good fun or an imminent threat to our society’s moral fabric? As with the movie’s gleefully perverted heroes, it all depends on what floats your boat, baby!” --- Michael Tunnison, Box Office Magazine

CRITIC’S QUOTE #2: “John Waters is in his finest form this time with humor so outrageously funny that audiences may injure themselves while laughing!” --- Steve Rhodes, Internet Reviews

CRITIC’S QUOTE #3: “A DIRTY SHAME is a carnal freak show, and Waters is the carnie daring audiences to come on in and have a look at the insanity!” --- Brian Orndorf, www.filmjerk.com

CRITIC’S QUOTE #4: “Title aside, even the smuttiest of sexual perversions come off as harmless fun in the world of Waters, where everything is OK as long as its safe and consensual; it may not be art, but A DIRTY SHAME is shameless fun!” --- Sean Axmaker, Seattle Post-Intelligencer

CRITIC’S QUOTE #5: “This sassy comedy is like a madcap B-movie that swaps man-munching zombies for flesh-hungry sex addicts and stars Tracey Ullman as a repressed housewife transformed into a randy refugee from a CARRY ON film. Unless licking dirt turns you on, it won’t change your life, but its good throwaway fan untainted by even a hint of political correctness!” --- Stella Papamichael, www.bbc.co.uk

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REMINDER!

The sexual acts in this movie were performed by professionals, so for your safety and the protection of those all around you, do not attempt any of the sexual acts…unless its behind close doors, lol. If you are seriously interested in these "virginal rehabilitions" then Waters says to see your local gynecologist, lol. Thank you for reading, and stay safe!!! Chris :))) 

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