A Dirty Shame (2004) on Netflix
Sylvia Stickles runs a Baltimore convenience store and disapproves of the lust around her. A knock on the head brings her to Ray-Ray Perkins, a self-styled sex saint and tow truck driver.
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Plot summary
Harford Road in Baltimore is split between the neuters, who want nothing to do with carnal pleasure, and the perverts, sex addicts whose fetishes arrived with accidental concussions. Sylvia Stickles belongs to the first group. She and her husband Vaughn run the Pinewood Park and Pay convenience store, and she keeps watch over their daughter Caprice, a go-go dancer billed as Ursula Udders and confined to the house over the garage after indecent exposure violations. Then a passing car strikes Sylvia, and Ray-Ray Perkins, a tow truck driver who describes himself as a sex saint, comes to her aid. He opens her to a new world of sensual pleasure, and he and his followers are searching for the ultimate sex act.
Cast
- Nicholas E.I. Nobleas Weird Paperboy
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about A Dirty Shame (2004)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- A Dirty Shame received an NC-17 from the MPAA, which severely limited its release because most major theater chains refuse NC-17 films. When director John Waters asked what to cut for an R rating, the board told him it "stopped taking notes," and his appeal was unsuccessful.
- Paul Giamatti was originally set to play Vaughn Stickles in John Waters' A Dirty Shame but dropped out before filming began.
- Because of its poor box office performance, A Dirty Shame has stood as John Waters' last directorial effort to date.
- Alongside the NC-17 version, A Dirty Shame was issued in an edited, R-rated cut sold through Blockbuster, Wal-Mart, Best Buy and Target as "The Neuter Version," which strips most profanities and alters dialogue such as "sex toy."
- Stage actress Suzanne Shepherd, cast as Big Ethel, knew nothing of John Waters' work, cried while reading the script at her first review, and tried to quit before Waters and her castmates talked her into staying.
