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
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:
Rating: 91/100 --
Polyester may be one of the few times when Waters tried to expand his cinematic language at the expense of his usual verbal variety
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DVD Verdict
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Only John Waters would think of marrying Douglas Sirk melodrama to William Castle showmanship.
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Film Frenzy
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: 3/4 --
Waters' humor might be as broad as possible in Polyester, but it's also astute enough here to be funny from moment to moment.
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MovieMartyr.com
Rating: 3/4 --
marked a major step for Divine, as it was the first time he was allowed to play a character that deviated from his notorious Divine persona
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Q Network Film Desk
Rating: 3/5 --
Falls apart in the end.
Filmcritic.com
Rating: 4/5 --
A low-rent version of a Douglas Sirk 1950s soaper, with Divine being dragged through all the paces that might have been the lot of a glossy star of the era.
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Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Product Description:
For his first studio picture, filth maestro John Waters took advantage of his biggest budget yet to allow his muse Divine to sink his teeth into a role unlike any he had played before: Baltimore housewife Francine Fishpaw, a heroine worthy of a Douglas Sirk melodrama. 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 turns to the bottle as her life falls apart—until deliverance appears in the form of a hunk named Todd Tomorrow (vintage heartthrob Tab Hunter). Enhanced with Odorama™ technology that enables you to scratch and sniff along with Francine, Polyester is one of Waters' most hilarious inventions, replete with stomach-churning smells, sadistic nuns, AA meetings, and foot stomping galore. DIRECTOR-APPROVED DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES • New, restored 4K digital transfer, supervised by director John Waters • Audio commentary featuring Waters from the 1993 Criterion laserdisc release of the film • New conversation between Waters and critic Michael Musto • New program featuring interviews with Waters collaborators Tab Hunter, Dennis Dermody, Pat Moran, Vincent Peranio, Mink Stole, Mary Garlington, and Greer Yeaton • Interviews from 1993 with cast and crew members Waters, Divine, Moran, Peranio, Edith Massey, and Van Smith, featuring footage from the making of the film • Archival interviews • Deleted scenes and alternate takes • Trailer • Scratch-and-sniff Odorama™ card • PLUS: An essay by film scholar Elena Gorfinkel
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- Sales Rank: 57,210
- UPC: 715515234917
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