Polyester

United States and United States of America, 1981

Film
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A suburban housewife’s world falls apart when her pornographer husband admits he’s serially unfaithful to her, her daughter gets pregnant, and her son is suspected of being the foot-fetishist who’s been breaking local women’s feet.

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Credits

director

John Waters

costume design

Van Smith

producer

John Waters

production company

New Line Cinema

screenplay

John Waters

Duration

01:26:00

Production places
United States United States of America
Production dates
1981 1981

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

tmdb-movie-14269

Language

English

Subject categories

Comedy

Comedy → Black comedy

Feature films

Feature films → Feature films - United States

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Colour

TMDB-Movie

14269

Wikidata

Q1425404

Collected

69 times

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