A Dirty Shame

Name: A Dirty Shame
Genre: Comedy
Released: September 24, 2004
Duration: 89 min
Rating: 56
Cast: Chris Isaak, Selma Blair, Tracey Ullman

2004

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Fine Line Features | Release Date: September 24, 2004 | NC-17

Starring: Chris Isaak, Selma Blair, Tracey Ullman

Summary: Rude, joyous and full of sexual anarchy, this John Waters comedy has a generous heart and a dirty mind. (Fine Line Features)

Director: John Waters

Genre(s): Comedy

Rating: NC-17

Runtime: 89 min

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Chris Kaltenbach

A Dirty Shame is certainly dirty, and maybe it's even a shame. But this is the John Waters we've come to know and cherish, and that alone is cause to celebrate. Read full review

Marc Savlov

A genuine cri de couer in the director’s long-running battle against the forces of censorship and a banal societal (and cinematic) status quo. And for those reasons along it deserves to be seen. Read full review

Wesley Morris

A big, lascivious punch line about America's peculiar, embarrassed, hypocritical relationship with sex. Read full review

David Rooney

Frequently hilarious but ultimately is a protracted one-joke affair that strays into undisciplined chaos. Read full review

David Ansen

Never mean-spirited, A Dirty Shame has some big laughs, but it's a one-joke movie that shows its strain well before the finish line. Read full review

Dana Stevens

I object to A Dirty Shame not because it is offensive - to do so would be another way of congratulating Mr. Waters for his bogus daring - but because it is boring. Beyond offering a catalog of interesting practices and lampooning their dedicated practitioners, the movie has very little to say about sex. Read full review

James Berardinelli

Tracey Ullman is a bright spot in an otherwise sordid, murky production. Read full review

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Thegodfatherson

Oct 27, 2013

A Dirty Shame is all porn. John Waters PORN. A Dirty Shame is downright a big piece of golden trash from Pink Flamingoes director John Waters. Why u ask? Because no one can handle the explicit sexuality in the NC-17 version, it's what John Waters does. From the dick jokes or spreading salsaA Dirty Shame is all porn. John Waters PORN. A Dirty Shame is downright a big piece of golden trash from Pink Flamingoes director John Waters. Why u ask? Because no one can handle the explicit sexuality in the NC-17 version, it's what John Waters does. From the dick jokes or spreading salsa over breasts- it's NC-17. When I finished this film I thought- WTF? It's really about sex addicts in a neighbourhood. But why is it so funny? Because even the dirtiness in this movie, makes it real Waters entertainment. It's so bad its good.… Expand

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