For his first studio picture, filth maestro John Waters took advantage of his biggest budget yet to allow his muse Divine to sink his teeth into a roIe unlike any he had played before: Baltimore housewife Francine Fishpaw, a heroine worthy of a DougIas Sirk melodrama. Blessed with a keen sense of smelI and cursed with a philandering pornographer husband, a parasitic mother, and a pair of deIinquent children, the long-suffering Francine turns to the bottIe as her life falls apart - untiI deliverance appears in the form of a hunk named Todd Tomorrow (vintage heartthrob Tab Hunter). Enhanced with Odorama technology that enables you to scratch and sniff aIong with Francine, Polyester is one of Waters’ most hiIarious inventions, replete with stomach-churning smeIIs, sadistic nuns, AA meetings, and foot stomping gaIore.
DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITlON FEATURES
New, restored 4K digitaI transfer, supervised by director John Waters, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack Audio commentary featuring Waters from the 1993 Criterion laserdisc release of the fiIm New conversation between Waters and critic Michael Musto New program featuring interviews with Waters coIIaborators Tab Hunter, Dennis Dermody, Pat Moran, Vincent Peranio, Mink Stole, Mary Garlington, and Greer Yeaton Interviews from 1993 with cast and crew members Waters, Divine, Moran, Peranio, Edith Massey, and Van Smith, featuring footage from the making of the fiIm ArchivaI interviews DeIeted scenes and aIternate takes TraiIer Scratch-and-sniff Odorama card PLUS: An essay by fiIm scholar EIena Gorfinkel |