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7.0/10 • 166

1981-05-291h 26m

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It’s Scentsational!

Blessed with a keen sense of smell and cursed with a philandering pornographer husband, a parasitic mother, and a pair of delinquent children, the long-suffering Francine Fishpaw turns to the bottle as her life falls apart -- until deliverance appears in the form of a hunk named Todd Tomorrow.

Directors
John Waters
Editors
Charles Roggero

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  1. Divine

    Divine

    Francine Fishpaw

  2. Tab Hunter

    Tab Hunter

    Todd Tomorrow

  3. Edith Massey

    Edith Massey

    Cuddles Kovinsky

  4. David Samson

    David Samson

    Elmer Fishpaw

  5. Mary Garlington

    Mary Garlington

    Lu-Lu Fishpaw

  6. Ken King

    Ken King

    Dexter Fishpaw

  7. Mink Stole

    Mink Stole

    Sandra Sullivan

  8. Joni Ruth White

    Joni Ruth White

    La Rue

  9. Hans Kramm

    Hans Kramm

    Heintz

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CinemaSerf

Aug 29, 2022

7/10

Remember the sensation that was "Smellyvision"? Well armed with a card which had ten different smells concealed under some silver foil spots, we set off to watch the escapades of the "Fishpaw" family. Divine is on good form as "Francine", the much put upon wife of serial womaniser "Elmer" (David Sampson) and mother to "Lulu" (Mary Garlington) and her wayward brother "Dexter" (Ken King). Her well-to-do suburban life all starts to come crashing down when her husband's soft-porn cinema attracts some local attention - of the wrong sort; the daughter manages to become pregnant with the help of a local thug and the son, well he has a rather weird foot-fetish that involves stamping heavily on any feet that take his fancy. It's all going pear shaped marvellously well for her until the hunky and charming "Todd" (Tab Hunter) offers her a dreamboat opportunity to escape the tortures of her family life. It's great fun, this - the characterisations are no deeper than a puddle but the pace at which John Waters keeps the mayhem and mischief coming thick and fast with plenty of humour that is entertaining, though admittedly a bit puerile and basic at times, manages to parody effectively quite a few more serious American comedy films made in the late 1970s. It's short, sweet and well worth a gander if you have 90 minutes and you even get on-screen instructions as when to scratch and sniff!!

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$300,000.00
Revenue
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Keywords
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