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Polyester

April 18, 2023 @ 7:00 PM 9:00 PM

$8

Please note: the April 18th screening will be shown with English language captions. If you would like to see the film without captions, please attend the screening on Saturday, April 22.

Part of our Happy Birthday John Waters celebration!

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 deliverance appears in the form of a hunk named Todd Tomorrow (vintage heartthrob Tab Hunter).

  • Director: John Waters
  • Year: 1986
  • Country: USA
  • Runtime: 86 minutes