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There's a battle happening on Hartford Road (and the Hartford Road area). It
's a battle between the Neuters and the Sex Addicts. There's no middle
ground, people. Pick a side.
Sylvia Stickles (Tracey Ullman) is a stone cold prude until she takes a blow
to the head that turns her into a sex-crazed lunatic (and Cunnilingus
Bottom). Her guide through this unfamiliar world is Ray-Ray Perkins (Johnny
Knoxville), a sexual Jesus with a hard-on of gold who makes Sylvia one of
his apostles for an upcoming resurrsextion in which a completely new sex act
will be discovered. The trouble is, whenever Sylvia or anyone else in the
Hartford Road area gets bonked on the head, they switch sides. That goes for
Sylvia's overly buxom daughter (Selma Blair) or her shocked-beyond-belief
mom (a hysterical Suzanne Shepherd, who gets to run around screaming stuff,
like, "You let a man put his germ-filled mouth on your uterus?").
This isn't high-brown Huckabees humor here. But John Waters' Shame is a
welcome breath of fresh air, especially after seeing John Sayles' slightly
heavy-handed Silver City last night. Both pictures rely on the big Right vs.
Left battle, but Waters handles it in a much more subtle way: Through trash,
sex and naughty language. The Neuters are fighting for an end to tolerance,
diversity and homosexuality. And dildos in birdbaths.
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