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Palm Theatre - SLO Film Center
Flickerhead Friday Night Features - John Waters
1977 91m Director: John Waters
Cast: Mink Stole, Jean Hill, Susan Lowe
John Waters pushes the boundaries of bad taste even further in Desperate Living, a deliriously unhinged tale of crime, exile, and total anarchy. After murdering her husband, neurotic housewife Peggy Gravel and her devoted, homicidal maid Grizelda seek refuge in Mortville—a trash-strewn kingdom ruled by the tyrannical Queen Carlotta. A gloriously filthy fever dream of camp, chaos, and revolution, this is Waters at his most unapologetically outrageous.