Self-proclaimed "King of Schlock" Waters toned down his usual vulgarity in this parody of suburbia, which introduced a new gross-out format, "Odorama." (A scratch-and-sniff card was handed out at the door, and numbers on the screen directed patrons to sample the very-unpleasant smells at
the appropriate sequence.) Divine is a housewife and mother to a family of selfish and ungrateful misfits. Her husband runs a porno theater while carrying on with his secretary, and her children are horrid (the glue-sniffing son is a slave to his foot fetish; the daughter runs around and gets
pregnant by a punk--real-life punk rock star Stiv Bators). Divine's life improves when kit...
Released:
1981
Rated:
R
Length:
86 mins