Biography: John Waters |

Of all the dubious titles awarded him -- "The Sultan of Sleaze," "The Baron of Bad Taste," and so forth -- filmmaker John Waters prefers "The Pope of Trash." Born in Baltimore to an upper-middle-class Catholic family, Waters has always been fascinated... more
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Tags: Comedy Film, TV & Radio Film & Television History Media Studies 
Length: 55min
Fans of toilet humor rejoice! In this uncensored documentary tracing the history of taboo busting comedy, personalities like John Waters, Lin Shaye, David Ansen, Peter Riegert, and Stephen Furst all weigh in on their favorite scatological big screen...

Tags: Film, TV & Radio Film & Television History 
Length: 82min
In this filmed version of cult film director John Waters' popular one-man show, the Pink Flamingos and A Dirty Shame director takes the stage to discuss everything from his early influences, fondest career memories, and notorious struggles against the...

Tags: Comedy Holiday Film 
Length: min
Johnny Knoxville and Parker Posey star in John Waters' new comedy Fruitcake, a This Is That and Killer Films production about a runaway boy's adventures during the holidays. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide

Cast: Tracey Ullman   
Tags: Sex Comedy Comedy Gross-Out Comedy 
Length: 88min
America's leading titan of bad taste, John Waters, returns to X-rated territory (well, actually NC-17-rated territory, but you get the idea) for this wildly over-the-top comedy. Sylvia Stickles (Tracey Ullman) is a wife and mother living in Baltimore...

Spine Tingler!: The William Castle Story (2007)
Cast: Joe Dante Roger Corman John Landis John Badham   
Tags: Film, TV & Radio Biography 
Length: 82min
Over the course of a Hollywood career that spanned five decades, William Castle directed dozens of movies and earned a reputation as a clever hand with a low-budget thriller, but the movies he made aren't always as well remembered as the way he sold...

Cast: John Waters Christina Ricci   
Tags: Domestic Comedy Media Satire Comedy 
Length: 90min
John Waters wrote and directed this 6.5 million satire on the Manhattan art world, a rags-to-riches comedy about 18-year-old amateur photographer Pecker (so named because he pecks at his food). Pecker (Edward Furlong) is a blue-collar kid who works in...

Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story (2000)
Tags: History Biography 
Length: 75min
Like Susanne Ofteringer's Nico-Icon (1995), Vincent Fremont's Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story chronicles the life of one of the more colorful and unforgettable women to emerge from Andy Warhol's menagerie of artists, actors, lost souls, and...

Cast: Steve Buscemi Jim Jarmusch   
Tags: Biography Film, TV & Radio 
Length: 105min
A documentary profile of filmmaker John Waters, Divine Trash focuses on the bad-taste pioneer's early years, especially his 1972 breakthrough Pink Flamingos, which turned the director of Mondo Trasho and Multiple Maniacs into the king of midnight...

Cast: Sam Waterston Kathleen Turner   
Tags: Comedy Satire Black Comedy Media Satire 
Length: 93min
Beverly Sutphin (Kathleen Turner) is the perfect suburban housewife and mother. She likes to cook, her home is immaculately clean, she's always well-groomed and cheerful, and she loves her husband Eugene (Sam Waterston) and her two children, Misty...

Cast: Melanie Griffith   
Tags: Comedy Showbiz Comedy Media Satire 
Length: 90min
Iconoclastic satirist John Waters bites the hand that (periodically) feeds him in this humorous look at the underside of the film industry. Self-styled guerrilla filmmaker Cecil (Stephen Dorff) leads a Baltimore movie-making collective/street gang...

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