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CECIL B. DEMENTED
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United States
2000 / 35 mm / Color / 88 min.
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Hollywood's greatest diva, the amazing Honey Whitlock, is kidnapped from a benefit premiere by the terrorist film director Cecil B. Demented and his crazy crew, the Sprocket Holes, to force her to make the ultimate underground movie. Ignoring all the rules of mainstream moviemaking, Cecil B. and his wild bunch are ready to sacrifice everything. They invade cinemas and studio functions in and around Baltimore, are eventually driven off by gunfire from the police or Teamsters, and continue bravely on despite casualties. Cecil B. believes himself to be waging scorched earth warfare against Hollywood mediocrity in the name of Andy Warhol, R.W. Fassbinder and Otto Preminger. Honey, however, might have found the best role of her career.
A magazine once dubbed me Cecil B. DeMented... It made me laugh. I was flattered. Then I thought, Will people always refer to me as a cult director?' In the true sense of the word, like a director who would appear in a trailer and say to his fans, Send me money. Go commit crimes.' And the audience would do it in real life. Commit suicide for celluloid. That kind of scary tribute... This film is my action comedy, a DIE HARD for the Hollywood impaired. -- John Waters
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Script: John Waters.
Phot.: Robert Stevens.
Ed.: Jeffrey Wolf.
Mus.: Zoe Poledouris, Basil Poledouris.
Cast: Melanie Griffith, Stephen Dorff, Alicia Witt, Larry Gilliard Jr., Maggie Gyllenhaal, Eric M. Barry, Zenzele Uzoma, Erika Lynn Rupli, Harriet Dodge, Adrian Grenier, Jack Noseworthy, Mink Stole, Ricki Lake, Patricia Hearst, Eric Roberts.
Prod.: John Fielder, Joe Caracciolo Jr., Mark Tarlov, Polar Entertainment, 19 Jay Street, New York, NY 10013 (�tats-Unis), t�l.: (212) 941-4646, fax: (212) 941-7755 / Artisan Entertainment.
Canadian Distributor: Alliance Atlantis Vivafilm.
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John Waters
Born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1946, John Waters was attracted to violence and gore at an early age and began making underground 8 mm films in the '60s which he screened in rented church halls to cult audiences. A slow but steady integration into mainstream filmmaking has tempered his more outrageous experiments but he remains one of the more audacious directors in American movies. His filmography includes: MONDO TRASHO (1970), MULTIPLE MANIACS (1970), PINK FLAMINGOS (1972), FEMALE TROUBLE (1975), DESPERATE LIVING (1977), POLYESTER (1981), HAIRSPRAY (1988), CRY-BABY (1990), SERIAL MOM (1994) and PECKER (1998). |
