Trailer
Assistive Technologies

Polyester in Odorama!

Runtime
1hr 26mins
Directed by
John Waters
Featuring
Divine,
Tab Huinter,
Edith Massey,
Mink Stole
Body

John Waters’s hilarious '80s melodrama, presented in its original ODORAMA: all audience members will be given a scratch-and-sniff card for the ultimate fragrant film experience!

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).

Enhanced with ODORAMA technology that enables you to scratch and sniff along with Francine, Polyester is one of Waters’ most hilarious inventions, replete with stomach-churning smells, sadistic nuns, AA meetings, and foot-stomping galore.

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