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Polyester

Comedy

Polyester

It’s Scentsational!

7.0(192) 5/29/1981 1h 26m
Comedy

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. Originally screened with "Odorama" scratch and sniff cards so the audience could (at their own risk) smell along with the film.

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Top Cast

Divine

Divine

Francine Fishpaw

Tab Hunter

Tab Hunter

Todd Tomorrow

Edith Massey

Edith Massey

Cuddles Kovinsky

David Samson

David Samson

Elmer Fishpaw

Mary Garlington

Mary Garlington

Lu-Lu Fishpaw

Ken King

Ken King

Dexter Fishpaw

Mink Stole

Mink Stole

Sandra Sullivan

JR

Joni Ruth White

La Rue

Directed by

John Waters

Production

Reviews

CinemaSerf

7/10

8/29/2022

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 ch

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