Desperate Living
Desperate Living is a 1977 American black comedy film directed, produced, and written by John Waters. The film stars Liz Renay, Mink Stole, Susan Lowe, Edith Massey, Mary Vivian Pearce, and Jean Hill.
Plot
Neurotic and delusional suburban housewife Peggy Gravel and her overweight maid, Grizelda Brown, go on the lam after Grizelda smothers Peggy's husband Bosley to death. A cross-dressing policeman arrests the pair and gives them an ultimatum: go to jail or be exiled to Mortville, a filthy shantytown ruled by the evil Queen Carlotta and her treasonous daughter, Princess Coo-Coo.
More details
| author | John Waters |
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| contentLocation | Baltimore |
| director | John Waters |
| editor | Charles Roggero |
| events | incest |
| genre | comedy crime |
| keywords | dead lover evil queen exile gender reassignment surgery johns hopkins hospital lesbian prison sex lottery ticket maryland lottery neurosis neurotic nudism nudist on the lam penectomy phalloplasty rabies sex change sexual deviants shantytown shoot social outcast suburb terrorize treason women in prison film wrestle wrestler |
| musicBy | Chris Lobingier |
| producer | John Waters |
| productionCompany | Dreamlanders |
| publisher | New Line Cinema |
| recordedAt | Baltimore |
| theme | black comedy crime comedy independent satirical |