CECIL
B.
DEMENTED
With
Stephen
Dorff,
Melanie
Griffith,
Alicia
Witt,
Adrien
Grenier,
Larry
Gilliard
Jr.,
Mink
Stole,
Ricki
Lake,
Patricia
Hearst,
Kevin
Nealon
Directed
by
John
Waters
Sure
he’s
making
far
more
mainstream
movies
than
his
‘70s
heyday
of
perverted
classics,
but
Waters
still
packs
in
some
deliciously
hilarious
off
the
wall
characters
with
what
normal
society
will
see
as
a
bent
world
view
stemming
from
rebellion,
sexuality,
individuality
and
uncensored
self-expression.
Here
he
ventures
into
his
own
profession
and
while
not
autobiographic,
surely
encapsulates
a
lot
of
the
spirit
in
which
he
and
his
Baltimore
cohorts
said
“fuck-it”.
They
went
out
to
shoot
the
kind
of
movies
they
wanted,
on
their
terms,
with
a
freedom
to
depict
their
idea
of
cinema
with
subjects
and
transgressions
diverting
from
the
commercial
world
view
guaranteeing
distribution.
Dorff
is
the
revolutionary
underground
filmmaker
Cecil
B.
Demented
who,
with
his
crew
of
misfits
ready
to
die
for
their
cinema,
kidnap
the
most
popular
actress
to
star
in
their
guerilla
film
project.
The
classic
Waters-style
characters
litter
the
screen
and
it
is
evident
that
he
hasn’t
lost
his
edge.
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