Polyester (1981)

05/29/1981 (GB) • 1h 26m

Comedy, Drama

It’s Scentsational!

Overview

Blessed with a keen sense of smell and cursed with a philandering pornographer husband, a parasitic mother, and a pair of delinquent children, the long-suffering Francine Fishpaw turns to the bottle as her life falls apart -- until deliverance appears in the form of a hunk named Todd Tomorrow.

Top Billed Cast

Divine

Francine Fishpaw

Tab Hunter

Todd Tomorrow

Edith Massey

Cuddles Kovinsky

David Samson

Elmer Fishpaw

Mary Garlington

Lu-Lu Fishpaw

Ken King

Dexter Fishpaw

Mink Stole

Sandra Sullivan


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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$300,000.00

Revenue

$1,120,000.00

Keywords

infidelity

pornography

bad smell

chaos

cocaine

baltimore, usa

dark comedy

housewife

satire

dysfunctional family

evil mother

playboy

pro-life protesters

misfit

promiscuity

camp

feet

drag

teenage pregnancy

1980s

jevenile delinquency

alcoholic mother

foot fetish

macrame

melodrama

quirky

odorama

post nuclear family

american family

aa meeting

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