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Polyester (1981)

Comedy | 86 minutes
2,95 44 votes

Genre: Comedy

Duration: 86 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: John Waters

Stars: Divine, Tab Hunter and Edith Massey

IMDb score: 7,0 (9.963)

Releasedate: 29 May 1981

Polyester plot

"It’s Scentsational!"

Francine Fishpaw (Divine) is a middle-class housewife in Baltimore who lives her life according to Christian values. Unfortunately, her husband runs a porn theater and her family quickly becomes the talk of the town...

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Waters at their best.

The low score here is once again quite ridiculous. Ok, the acting is not what you are normally used to, quite hysterical, but that is precisely what is funny about it and certainly not something annoying.

Divine plays Francine Fishpaw, a decent housewife who has had a hard time with her family and is being attacked from all sides. Her daughter calls her a fat cow. One day her daughter wants to have an abortion, she is sitting in the waiting room of an abortion clinic, and suddenly an anti-abortion protest group bursts in: "Murderer!" and "Suppose Einstein's mother had an abortion!" She gets a slap in the face: "That's from Jesus!"

Her son turns out to be the infamous footstomper, a serial foot stomper who crushes unsuspecting women's feet with his steel-toed soldier's boots... While Divine is in bed, she sees the composite drawing on TV of the foot stomper that looks suspiciously like her son, that face she makes hahaha...

Her mother is a jerk of a woman and her husband... a jerk of a man.

The Fishpaw family has some similarities with the Bundy's in Married with Children. Quite funny actually. Could the makers of Married with Children have been inspired by this crazy family?

Harris Glenn Milstead would, at least initially, have played a double role in the famous sitcom, as Peggy Bundy's mother and as her uncle, Uncle Otto. But Divine died on the day of the first recordings, March 7, '88.

It's a great shame that this was not allowed to happen again.

The Harlequin poster of this comedy is really fantastic, one of the best movie posters ever, not the one above by the way (although that one is also quite nice), but the other one.

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