Holding onto the dream of bourgeois America has never seemed so impossible, stupid, crass, and funny as in Jon Waters’ Polyester (1981).  Divine heads up a cast of Waters-regulars and boorish newcomers to tell the story of the dissolution of Francine Fishpaw’s family as it succumbs to adulatory, teenage pregnancy, alcoholism, drug addiction, hooliganism, murder, and a lot of real-world smells thanks to the scratch-and-sniff gimmick of Odorama.

If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Douglas Sirk’s All That Heaven Allows (1955.)