Polyester R
Filmed in ODORAMA
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 26 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 17, 2019
- Originally Released: 1981
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Divine & Tab Hunter | |
Performer: | Mink Stole, David Samson, Mary Garlington, Jean Hill, Ken King, Stiv Bators, Cookie Mueller & Edith Massey | |
Directed by | John Waters | |
Edited by | Charles Roggero | |
Screenwriting by | John Waters | |
Composition by | Michael Kamen | |
Produced by | John Waters | |
Director of Photography: | David Insley | |
Executive Production by | Robert Shaye |
Entertainment Reviews:
Polyester is definitely one of Waters's best films, and I highly recommend attending an 'Odorama' screening for a unique night at the movies.
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Electric Sheep
Rating: 5/5 --
Polyester is the start of a turning point in John Waters' career, the start of this radical outsider entering the mainstream.
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FanboyNation.com
The story is brilliant and has an authentic sense of humor. However, it declines as it develops because of its repetitiveness. [Full Review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Only John Waters would think of marrying Douglas Sirk melodrama to William Castle showmanship.
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Film Frenzy
...A fitfully amusing comedy of not so ordinary people...
Variety
...Hip, stylized humor....One of the numerous things that makes POLYESTER fun is Odorama...
New York Times
Rating: B- --
By standards of Waters' gross-out features, this mildly amusing film is sedate, notable for the casting of fading movie star Tab Hunter and for introducing a gimmick called Odorama, scratch-and-sniff cards.
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Product Description:
Francine Fishpaw (Divine) is a troubled housewife trapped in suburban Baltimore. Her household is a disaster--her husband is the philandering proprietor of a sleazy movie theater, her daughter performs lewd dances in her high school cafeteria for money, her son is a predatory foot fetishist, and the family pet is suicidal. After she hits alcoholic rock bottom, along comes Todd Tomorrow (Tab Hunter), a dreamboat who runs an art-house drive-in theater. But is he really as angelic as he seems' Francine may require the help of her eccentric nouveau riche best friend, Cuddles (Edith Massey), to discover the truth.
Inspired by soap operas and weepy 1950s melodramas, John Waters combines the conventions of that genre (soft lighting, teary organ music) with William Castle-like gimmickry for what was, upon its release, his most polished, biggest budgeted film. The original theatrical release was presented in Odorama--an innovative technique that allowed the audience to smell the movie with the aid of a scented card featuring the same scents Francine picks up with her overactive olfactory powers. Divine gives yet another wonderful comedic performance, and '50s idol Hunter proves that he's game for anything.
Inspired by soap operas and weepy 1950s melodramas, John Waters combines the conventions of that genre (soft lighting, teary organ music) with William Castle-like gimmickry for what was, upon its release, his most polished, biggest budgeted film. The original theatrical release was presented in Odorama--an innovative technique that allowed the audience to smell the movie with the aid of a scented card featuring the same scents Francine picks up with her overactive olfactory powers. Divine gives yet another wonderful comedic performance, and '50s idol Hunter proves that he's game for anything.
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- Sales Rank: 49,798
- UPC: 715515234917
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