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| A Dirty Shame (R Rated Version) | 
 enlarge | Director: John Waters
Actors: Tracey Ullman, Johnny Knoxville, Selma Blair, Chris Isaak, Suzanne Shepherd
Studio: New Line Home Video
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  87 reviews
Sales Rank: 44324
Format: Ac-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: NC-17
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 88
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: DN7800D
ISBN: 0780650204
UPC: 794043780028
EAN: 9780780650206
ASIN: B000929UP0
Theatrical Release Date: September 24, 2004
Release Date: June 14, 2005
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| Customer Reviews:
 Sick, Twisted, And Always Amusing... April 6, 2008
This is one of the best John Waters films of all time. John has a rare gift for openly challenging society's views on sexuality and bizarre behavior in the most amusing way and this humorous film is no exception.
 A Dirty Shame of a movie December 27, 2007
This is a really, really dumb movie. You have to be really depraved and sex starved to enjoy this one. Ranks up there short of Dumb and Dumber.
Waters's best film in years, stunningly so.... December 26, 2007
I would like to visit Baltimore one of these days, as it has produced 3 of the greatest American artists ever. Philip Glass, Frank Zappa, and John Waters are those 3 artists. Glass and Zappa are generally accepted as artists, but Waters is one as well. He is similar to Russ Meyer, in that his films are considered "trash", but they are actually very funny, intelligent satires for the most part. Waters has raised trash to the level of art with Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble, and Desperate Living, and here he goes back to his roots and makes one of his best films in years.
This is one of the most consistently funniest films I've seen in a long time. I honestly don't understand why people, especially fans of Waters, don't like this film. It's absolutely hilarious, and consistently so. There isn't a lull in the whole film, like in a lot of modern comedies.
The film really is a throwback to Waters's early work, except with a bigger budget. It is nicer to look at than his 16mm work with Pink Flamingos, but this film really is something to see. I think the reason people hated this film (including many longtime Waters fans) is that it really is as subversive and as shocking as his early, underground work. It's massively pervertted from the first scene, and it never lets up throughout the whole film. It doesn't have any PC overtones to it at all (i.e. no messages at all other than people really need to f*** more, which is not a PC message), which makes it even more endearing to me. When I saw Pink Flamingos for the first time, I saw it around 1997. If I had seen it years before, I would have hated it. But after many, many years of PC attitudes, Pink Flamingos was a breath of fresh air. This film has that same spirit and is almost as funny (Pink is funnier, but this film still rocks).
People these days like to think they're "enlightened" towards sex, but they're not, really. They like Waters's early work because it came at a time when people were officially uptight. Nowadays, we pretend to be hip and "with it", but we really aren't. People nowadays are as uptight today as they were all those years ago, and that's why they don't like this film. It scares them.
There are many great performances here. They're deliciously over the top, but then, most of Waters's actors always go over the top. I especially liked Johnny Knoxville, who shows with a good filmmaker he can give a good performance. Tracey Ullman is wonderful, and so is, well, evreyone else. Some of the fetishes depicted here are rather out there, but who cares. They exist, and this film simply wants to educate us, I think. I don't know. I just know that I laughed like hell at this film. There are many great scenes (the "syphillis" advertisement, the sex addicts meeting), but my favorite has to be David Hasselhoff's appearance. When I saw him appear, and saw the book he was reading, I had to pause the DVD because I was laughing so hard. If you're a Waters's fan, you need to see this pronto. If you're not a Waters's fan, you need to become one and see this film. It's one of Waters's best films.
 It sure was a dirty shame......... November 26, 2007
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
Everyone in this film could have found something better to do. Ulman, your the best at what you do but were you taking Ambien during the filming of this crappy sleeper....... Puking in the x-tra large popcorn tub would have been alot more fun!
 smart, funny and so ridiculously great September 12, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Sexually repressed Sylvia Stickles, played by Tracey Ullman, gets in a car accident and suffers a concussion. Enter Ray-Ray Perkins, played by Johnny Knoxville, another head injury person who is also a sex addict. Sylvia becomes a sex maniac and comes in contact with Ray-Ray and the other "apostles" of sex. Selma Blair plays Sylvia's daughter and another sex addict. They all join together to sexually liberate a small town.
Although some jokes fall flat, it is enjoyable and funny.
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