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Polyester (1981)

Polyester (1981)

Drama Comedy

It’s Scentsational!

Release Date: 1981, May 29
Directors: John Waters
Countries: United States of America
Production: New Line Cinema, Dreamland, Michael White Productions
Cast: Mink Stole, Jean Hill, Susan Lowe, Edith Massey, Mary Vivian Pearce, George Stover, George Figgs, Marina Melin, Cookie Mueller, George Hulse, Marla Aaron Wapner, Jim Hill

Overview:

Blessed with a keen sense of smell and cursed with a philandering pornographer husband, a parasitic mother, and a pair of delinquent children, the long-suffering Francine Fishpaw turns to the bottle as her life falls apart -- until deliverance appears in the form of a hunk named Todd Tomorrow. Originally screened with "Odorama" scratch and sniff cards so the audience could (at their own risk) smell along with the film.

Keywords:

satire infidelity dark comedy chaos 1980s bad smell dysfunctional family camp pornography cocaine misfit baltimore, usa alcoholic mother promiscuity teenage pregnancy foot fetish housewife melodrama playboy drag evil mother feet pro-life protesters jevenile delinquency macrame odorama post nuclear family aa meeting