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A Dirty Shame (2004)
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Johnny Knoxville, Selma Blair, Tracey Ullman, Chris Isaak, Patricia Campbell Hearst
Screenwriter: John Waters
Producer: Christine Vachon, Ted Hope
Composer: George S. Clinton
DVD Info
Release:
Feb 6, 2006
Reviews
Outrageous, filthy and often hysterically funny, this is John Waters' best film since Serial Mom.
John Waters takes on the decency brigade with a social comedy that's a refreshing return to his unhinged filmmaking style.
Waters has made a resolutely unsexy sex comedy, but he hasn't left out the comedy.
On the one hand it depicts what the world might be like if women had the same constancy of sexual desire that men have, but on the other hand, it has the intelligence level of a teenage boy's dirty joke.
Exploring the wide divide between prudes and the world of sexual excess, there’s enough bad taste on display to shock, amuse and entertain. Sizzles when hot, fizzles when not
A Dirty Shame is a fabulously funny exploration of fetishism, a look at the ever-more-insane ways people find to 'get off'.
Wow. The challenges of reviewing an NC-17 movie for a family newspaper are, um, challenging.
More a return to roots than a return to form, this messy carnal-concussion comedy celebrates the libido and every form of sexual practice
A Dirty Shame is not a good movie, but it has a good message, and for that, it’s well worth seeing.
The NC-17 rating and the images of Selma Blair with her gargantuan bosom seemed to promise a return to form — if Waters were going dirty again, how could he disappoint?
A Dirty Shame is outrageous for the sake of being outrageous, but unlike some of Waters' other films, it's neither shocking nor funny.
The filmic equivalent of a child reading aloud the Dictionary of Filth with the express intent of giving his nanny a heart attack.
Goes through the surface motions of naughtiness, [but] it all comes off rather quaint in the end.
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