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A rich housewife murders her husband with the help of her overweight maid, and the two go on the run, ending up in Mortville, a town providing refuge for criminals. They shack up with a lesbian ex-wrestler and her murderess lover, before running into the tyrannical Queen Carlotta, ruler of Mortville…<\/p>\n

Divine<\/a> was touring as a cabaret singer when director John Waters<\/a> made this comedy of the grotesque, but he filled the void admirably with the equally rotund Jean Hill and burlesque-queen Liz Renay<\/a>. The film tells the story of Peggy Gravel (Mink Stole<\/a>), a mad housewife who kills her husband then goes on the lam with her 300-pound maid Grizelda (Hill<\/a>). After being sexually accosted by a lewd, cross-dressing cop with gingivitis, the women are directed to Mortville, a shanty-town for fugitive criminals ruled by the evil Queen Carlotta (Edith Massey<\/a>). Carlotta’s daughter, Princess Coo-Coo (Mary Vivian Pearce<\/a>) wants to renounce the throne and marry a nudist garbageman, so the Queen has him killed and enlists Peggy’s aid in infecting the kingdom with rabies. Waters uses a fairy-tale framework to indulge his penchant for nauseating set-pieces, such as a transsexual lesbian (Susan Lowe<\/a>) having her new penis cut off with scissors and fed to a dog, women being fed live cockroaches, and Peggy being assaulted at a lesbian glory-hole. Massey is hilarious as the Queen, urging her leather-clad bodyguards\/sex-toys to “rob my safety-deposit box!,” but the oddly-named actor Turkey Joe steals the show in his brief role as a lecherous cop, spouting lines like “I love the feel of cold nylon on my big butt!” and slobbering over Grizelda’s huge underpants. The pinnacle of gross-out humor, Desperate Living is Waters’ strangest and funniest film.<\/p>\n

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A rich housewife murders her husband with the help of her overweight maid, and the two go on the run, ending up in Mortville, a town providing refuge for criminals. They shack up with a lesbian ex-wrestler and her murderess…<\/span><\/p>\n

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