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A Dirty Shame is a 2004 satire by John Waters starring Tracey Ullman, Selma Blair, Johnny Knoxville, Chris Isaak, Mink Stole, Patricia Hearst. The film, rated NC-17, was a return to style of the sexually raunchy films of his early pre-Hollywood years, such as Pink Flamingos and Female Trouble. It was filmed on-location in Baltimore on Harford Road, which is prominently featured in the movie.
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John Waters' A Dirty Shame is a return to gloriously sleazy form from the purveyor of bad taste whose post- Hairspray period seemed to soften his notoriously raunchy touch. The soundtrack... continues in the vein of songs from Cry-Baby and Hairspray by relying on the same period in musical history, albeit to very different ends. If the Hairspray soundtrack was playing in the dance halls of yesteryear, the Dirty Shame soundtrack was playing in the strip clubs.
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In A Dirty Shame, Waters has returned to form (after the disappointing Cecil B. DeMented). Harkening back to his 1981 entry Polyester, Waters casts Tracey Ullman as a Baltimore prudish housewife who, after getting hit on the head, becomes a reckless nymphomaniac. She soon learns of an underground society of sex addicts, led by Knoxville, who will stop at nothing to fulfill their various sexual fantasies and fetishes. This secret society can only be kept down for so long... and the sex enthusiasts ultimately end up in a stand-off with the "Neuters," a group of anti-sex crusaders. It's territory Waters has gone to before, but remains more pertinent then ever, given the recent firestorm of debate over Janet Jackson's breast exposure. Typically, Waters spices things up with his casting, adding Chris Isaak, Selma Blair and his regulars Patty Hearst and Mink Stole into the mix.
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With early less-than-no-budget classics like Pink Flamingos, Girl Trouble and A Dirty Shame and later mainstream hits like Cry Baby and Hairspray, John Waters did more than any modern filmmaker to give bad taste a good name. Whether a person sees his movies as “good” bad or “just plain” bad, one has to admit the music is always right. Mining a bottomless collection of pet songs from his pompadoured Baltimore youth, Waters always displayed a knack for matching the music and the moment, the pointedly perverted scene with the perfect song. Indeed, anyone who’s seen Pink Flamingos will never hear “(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window” the same way again. With the success of last year’s A John Waters Christmas CD, the director-turned-record-producer was off and running to his latest project, a twisted musical Valentines Day card entitled A Date with John Waters. If the idea gets you a little hot and bothered and a wee bit nervous, have no fear. If your Valentines evening is half as fun as this record, you’re gonna have a blast.
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Debbie Scaling Kiley in Channel 4’s Alive: Swimming with Sharks; co-star with Tracey Ullman in New Line Cinema’s A Dirty Shame; co-star with Sissy Spacek and William Hurt in Disney’s Tuck Everlasting; co-star with Martha Plimpton and Kaitlin Hopkins in L.A. TheatreWorks' The Heidi Chronicles; featured in HBO's The Wire and in the BBC's Superstorm; Viola/Sebastian in Carole Todd's Twelfth Night the Musical! with Gyles Brandreth.
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A Dirty Shame opened on September 17, 2004 on one Baltimore screen to $29,384. The next weekend, it expanded to 133 venues, where it grossed $448,914 ($3,375 per screen). It ended its North American run with $1,339,668.
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