A Dirty Shame (NC-17 Rated Theatrical Version) |  | Director: John Waters
Actors: Tracey Ullman, Chris Isaak, Selma Blair, Johnny Knoxville, Suzanne Shepherd
Studio: New Line Home Video
Category: DVD
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Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: NC-17
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 88 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: N7754
ISBN: 0780650026
UPC: 794043775420
EAN: 9780780650022
ASIN: B000929UOQ
Theatrical Release Date: September 24, 2004
Release Date: June 14, 2005
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| • | Are you ready for a movie that puts filth right where it belongs? Then get ready to laugh with A Dirty Shame--the latest raunchy riot from director John Waters (Hairspray). When a concussion awakens the carnal urges of Sylvia (Tracey Ullman), the people of Pinewood become pitted against each other in a battle of decency versus depravity.Running Time: 88 min. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COME |
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Are you ready for a movie that puts filth right where it belongs? Then get ready to laugh with A Dirty Shame--the latest raunchy riot from director John Waters (Hairspray). When a concussion awakens the carnal urges of Sylvia (Tracey Ullman) the people of Pinewood become pitted against each other in a battle of decency versus depravity.Running Time: 88 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY UPC: 794043775420
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When prissy, prickly Sylvia Stickles (Tracey Ullman) suffers a head injury during a traffic altercation, she's, er, revived by self-appointed sexual missionary Ray-Ray Perkins (Johnny Knoxville) and is transformed into an insatiable, take-no-prisoners sex maniac. Yes, it's a John Waters film. Yes, it's filthy. No, it's not as hilarious and sustained as you'd like it to be. It works for a while, though: Ullman, never a stingy comedienne, does everything Waters dares her to do without hesitation; words cannot describe the perversely sporting delight with which she mounts a water bottle during a round of "The Hokey Pokey" at an old folks' home. And there's some fun to be had when Sylvia's emancipation leads her Baltimore 'burb to new heights of ecstasy, freeing her large-breasted daughter Caprice (Selma Blair) while horrifying husband Vaughn (Chris Isaak) and her hardline mother Big Ethel (Suzanne Shepherd, hysterical) in the process. It's also packed with the standard cameos, the most satisfying of which is good old Patty Hearst at a Sex Addicts Anonymous encounter. But, for all the nasty, necessary glee, the movie feels inescapably been-there-done-that, and you can't help but wish this was 1972 and Divine was on hand to prowl for dog droppings. The most shocking thing about A Dirty Shame is how desperate and tiresome its anarchy becomes.--Steve Wiecking
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 He's Back! January 16, 2010
John Jones (Chicago)
I'm not a filmie who follows directors and their 'oeuvre' but I've consistently enjoyed John Water films up to, and including, "Hairspray." Then, meh. "A Dirty Shame" is a successful return to Waters' early years. I think what throws people off is the all-star cast; even if they are B-list stars. I found the movie funny and Waters has picked another winning soundtrack. If possible, the director's commentary track is even funnier than the movie dialog.
 Sexual liberation December 28, 2009
Douglas King (Cincinnati, OH United States)
Underneath all the outrageous antics, John Waters' films often offer a warm message of tolerance. In his early films, he chose misfits, outcasts, and "normal" people to play characters that reflected the strangeness of suburban America. In his later films, such as "A Dirty Shame", he chooses a combination of mainstream Hollywood stars (Tracey Ullman, Chris Isaak, Selma Blair), his usual favorites (Mink Stole), and pop culture oddities (Johnny Knoxville, David Hasselhoff, Patty Hearst) to populate his subversive world.
If "Serial Mom" was a satire of the media's love of violence, and "Pecker" lambasted the pretentiousness of the art world, "A Dirty Shame" is an almost sincere (albeit very silly) cry for sexual liberation. Whereas most Hollywood films only allow for beautiful people to enjoy sexual freedom, "A Dirty Shame" makes the case for every person's right to enjoy their own sexual appetites, as long as, to quote Johnny Knoxville's sex guru Ray-Ray, "it's safe and consentual".
To bring this message home, the audience is treated to a smorgasbord of hilarious and horny characters, including a trio of "bears", an adult baby, a "human vacuum cleaner", and a couple who enjoy "Roman showers". (Don't ask.)
 Mediocre at best December 28, 2009
M. Stoddart
This is a review of the movie, which I saw on cable, and not the DVD. I believe that I saw the 'R' rated version rather then the NC-17 version, although it wasn't specified.
A Dirty Shame opens with Tracy Ullman, a frigid housewife, getting hit on the head and turning into a sexaholic. She is welcomed into a sexaholic cult led by Johnny Knoxville and then slowly more and more members of the town get concussions and become sexaholics of various more or less bizarre flavors. As the new apostle of the cult it is apparently Tracy's destiny to invent a new sex act.
The first wall that A Dirty Shame runs into is that it relies heavily on the sexually bizarre to fuel its shock humor. However asking people in the post "2 girls one cup" age to be shocked by a guy sitting around in a baby costume is optimistic in the extreme. If the movie had run with the theme and actually injected humor based on these acts, perhaps that might have worked, instead we just see a parade of minor creepiness and we're supposed to be amused by it?
Secondly, for a sex comedy there's almost no sex and absolutely no eroticism. Tracy goes the extra mile with her facial contortions and pelvic thrusts which is slightly amusing at times but only in the 'Tracy is making funny faces' way, not in the 'Tracy is actually having a good time' way.
Thirdly, there's very little comedy. Mostly what there is that works is slapstick, which is ok but it's not enough to hang the movie on. An example of the comedy might be Selma Blair appearing with what appears to be basketball sized balloons for breasts. In the context of the film they're real giant breasts, but she moves as though they're balloons. Funny? Later they deflate and re-inflate in front of us. Honestly I can't see what direction they were hoping for this to be funny in? A sight gag? Self-deprecating "isn't this a cheesy movie" humor?
With almost no story, satire(?) that misses the world as it is now, and social commentary(?) that is incoherent the movie has nothing to fall back on to rescue it from itself.
All that said I think that the actors turned in reasonable performances given the obvious limitations they were laboring under, production quality seemed to be decent and the sound track was quite good. In fact watching the list of songs on the credits was as amusing as anything in the film itself.
Go in with low expectations and you might be pleasantly surprised, but if you aren't already a John Waters fan it's probably not worth an hour and a half of your life.
 Not as funny as it could be, but I learned a few things November 5, 2009
senryu review (Minneapolis, MN)
Some parts were funny /
More parts were stupid, but still /
educational
All kinds of fun. August 3, 2009
James D. Costich (Rochester, NY)
I'm a big fan of Tracy Ulman and she is great in this film, but there's good chemistry among the whole cast. Of all John Water's films I like this best. Anyone who's ever had a parent who is a "Neuter" will recognize the whole mindset here. The Bears are very well done. I'm a member of a Bear club myself and we heartily concur that it fits us well. Like all parody and satire everything is exaggerated...and yet deadly accurate. It's in my collection of movies I have to see every year.
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