Polyester (1981)

Why the Box Office?: Films of 1980s: 1981 (47 movies items)

" Box Office Breakdown Production Budget: $300,000 (his largest budget up to that point). Theatrical Rentals/Gross: $1.12 million domestically. Profit Margin: The film comfortably quadrupled its original investment, proving highly lucrative for its distributor, New Line Cinema. John Waters’ 1981 satirical comedy Polyester was a box office success, grossing over $1.12 milliondomestically against a modest $300,000 budget. Unlike his previous underground exploitation films, Polyester marke"

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"Polyester (John Waters, 1981)"

Pop Culture Phenomenon Films: 80’s (1542 movies items)

" 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 role unlike any he had played before: Baltimore housewife Francine Fishpaw, a heroine worthy of a Douglas Sirk melodrama. 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 turns to the bottle as her life falls apart—until deliv"

Pop Culture Phenomenon Films: 80’s (1542 movies items)

" 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 role unlike any he had played before: Baltimore housewife Francine Fishpaw, a heroine worthy of a Douglas Sirk melodrama. 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 turns to the bottle as her life falls apart—until deliv"

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"June 1st Directed by: John Waters 2nd Viewing Previous Rating: 4 After: 3.5"

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"Directed by: John Waters A suburban housewife's world falls apart when she finds that her pornographer husband is serially unfaithful to her, her daughter is pregnant, and her son is suspected of being the foot-fetishist who's been breaking local women's feet."

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"March 31st Directed by: John Waters "

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"Director: John Waters Starring: Divine, Tab Hunter"