Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Tracey Ullman | ... | Sylvia | |
Johnny Knoxville | ... | Ray Ray | |
Selma Blair | ... | Caprice | |
Chris Isaak | ... | Vaughn | |
Suzanne Shepherd | ... | Big Ethel | |
Mink Stole | ... | Marge The Neuter | |
Patricia Hearst | ... | Paige | |
Jackie Hoffman | ... | Dora | |
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Nick Noble | ... | Weird Paperboy (as Nicholas E.I. Noble) |
Lucy Newman-Williams | ... | Neuter Yuppie Woman | |
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Scott Morgan | ... | Neuter Yuppie Man |
Wes Johnson | ... | Fat Fuck Frank | |
David A. Dunham | ... | Mama Bear | |
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David Moretti | ... | Papa Bear (as Dave Moretti) |
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Jeffrey Auerbach | ... | Baby Bear |
Middle-aged, sexually repressed Sylvia Stickles is the subject of this John Water's film, set in North Baltimore. She refuses to have sex with her husband, Vaughn Stickles, and keeps her overly-endowed daughter, Caprice, locked in her room, while she serves home detention for moral depravity charges. Sylvia, together with her mother Big Ethel, lead a group calling themselves "neuters" that promotes decency on Harford Road. When Sylvia is accidentally hit on the head by a lawnmower hanging out of a passing pick-up truck, however, her sexual behavior is changed completely from prude to prostitute. She meets the sex addicted sexual healer Ray Ray Perkins, becoming his twelfth apostle of sex in a journey of pleasure and orgasm. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Tracey Ullman does some priceless double-takes in this John Waters comedy, playing uptight wife and mother in a Baltimore suburb who gets a rap on the noggin and becomes a sex addict. A shabby-looking enterprise with scrappy editing, this would seem amateurish even for a first-time director, but Waters certainly doesn't seem to mind. As a filmmaker, he is gleefully puckish, with a heightened sense of the ridiculous, and as usual he gets his cast to ride right along on his coattails. Selma Blair is Ullman's daughter, who has "mutilated her mammaries"; Chris Isaak is Tracey's husband who also gets a knock on the head and dreams of musclemen posing; Johnny Knoxville is a sex guru/auto mechanic; Suzanne Shepherd is Ullman's mother, Big Ethel, who runs the Park and Pay. Relatively short film isn't compact (the final reel is just a lot of hamming and running around) but the first-half has some laugh-out-loud moments and the whole picture benefits from Ullman's work--she's a stitch. **1/2 from ****