- published: 22 May 2011
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Polyester is a 1981 comedy film directed, produced, and written by John Waters, and starring Divine, Tab Hunter, Edith Massey, and Mink Stole. It was filmed in Waters' native Baltimore, Maryland, and features a gimmick called "Odorama", whereby viewers could smell what they saw on screen through scratch and sniff cards.
The film is a satirical look at suburban life involving divorce, abortion, adultery, alcoholism, foot fetishism, and the Religious Right.
Polyester tells the story of housewife Francine Fishpaw (Divine), whose life is crumbling around her in her upper middle class suburban Baltimore home. Her husband, Elmer (David Samson), is a polyester-clad lout who owns an X-rated theater, causing anti-pornography protesters to picket the Fishpaws' house. She also states that "All the neighborhood women spit at me" whenever she is at the Shopping Mall. Francine's children are Lu-Lu (Mary Garlington), her spoiled, slutty daughter, and Dexter (Ken King), her delinquent, glue-sniffing son who derives illicit pleasure from stomping on women's feet. Also adding to Francine's troubles is her snobby, class-conscious, cocaine-snorting mother, LaRue (Joni Ruth White), who robs Francine blind and only cares about her "valuable shopping time."
Actors: Lucero (actress), César Bono (actor), Ofelia Guilmáin (actress), Pedro Weber 'Chatanuga' (actor), Lola Beltrán (actress), Sara García (actress), Germán Valdés (actor), Jorge Negrete (actor), Mauricio Garcés (actor), Pedro Infante (actor), Santo (actor), Javier López (actor), Adalberto Martínez (actor), Javier Williams (producer), Javier Williams (producer),
Genres: Talk-Show,Touching flowers with your scream
Meeting sweets
She smiles like cream
When your hair hides melting grace
Worn out minds won't touch your face
I am leaning far, too far above the ice
So I'll feed my hands with cheeks of other names
I am lying under tons of porcine snow
Polyester absorbs me
Fawn
At last my parents cried
About my green and my last white
Now my darling goes to him
She will dare her cross's skin