THE ASTOR REVIEW

The first film to bring Odorama (or Smell-O-Vision) to the big screen, Polyester marks Waters’ move from the underground into the mainstream – well, the subversive underground mainstream anyway. Divine dons her finest in suburban housewife get-up in her too wonderful for words performance as the picture of middle American moms. Making fun of all-American, heteronormative family values, Waters exposes the artifice of such stifling societal constructs with unmatched hilarity and sass. As synthetic as the title suggests, Polyester unearths everything that is ugly about being “normal” and “average” in the most stupendously kitsch, camp and endearing way. TJ

IMDB SYNOPSIS

Francine Fishpaw is an upper middle class suburban housewife in Baltimore. Unfortunately for this good Christian woman, the money to support her lifestyle comes from her husband's porno theater, the neighbors are protesting, her son is the notorious Baltimore Stomper, her daughter is knocked up by a local hoodlum, and her husband is having an affair with his secretary.