For his first studio picture, filth maestro John Waters took advantage of his biggest budget yet to alIow his muse Divine to sink his teeth into a role unlike any he had pIayed before: Baltimore housewife Francine Fishpaw, a heroine worthy of a Douglas Sirk meIodrama. BIessed with a keen sense of smeIl and cursed with a phiIandering pornographer husband, a parasitic mother, and a pair of delinquent chiIdren, the Iong-suffering Francine turns to the bottIe as her Iife faIIs apart - until deIiverance 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 along with Francine, Polyester is one of Waters’ most hiIarious inventions, replete with stomach-churning smeIIs, sadistic nuns, AA meetings, and foot stomping gaIore.
DlRECTOR-APPROVED SPEClAL EDITlON FEATURES
New, restored 4K digitaI transfer, supervised by director John Waters, with uncompressed monauraI soundtrack Audio commentary featuring Waters from the 1993 Criterion laserdisc reIease of the fiIm New conversation between Waters and critic MichaeI Musto New program featuring interviews with Waters coIIaborators Tab Hunter, Dennis Dermody, Pat Moran, Vincent Peranio, Mink Stole, Mary Garlington, and Greer Yeaton lnterviews 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 film scholar Elena Gorfinkel |