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Dirty Shame

Tracey Ullman, Johnny Knoxville, Selma Blair, Mink Stole, Patricia Hearst

Directed by John Waters
Rolling Stone: star rating
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June 2, 2005

In Baltimore, the carnal rapture is nigh In John Waters' world, there's nothing more normal than sexual depravity. An all-out turf war between "the horndogs" and "the neuters" leads a prissy mom (Tracey Ullman) to lock her massively mammaried daughter, Ursula Udders (Selma Blair), in her room. But can Mom buck the transformative effect of getting hit in the head by David Hasselhoff's dookie dropped from 30,000 feet? Witness Johnny Knoxville Frenching a squirrel and the immortal line "I'm Viagravated, and I'm not gonna take it anymore!"

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