John Waters

Pleasantly plump teenager Tracy Turnblad teaches 1962 Baltimore a thing or two about integration after landing a spot on a local TV dance show. Tracy Turnblad, a teenager with all the right moves, is obsessed with the Corny Collins Show. Every day after school, she and her best friend Penny run home to watch the show and drool over the hot Link Larkin, much to Tracy's mother Edna's dismay. After one of the stars of the show leaves, Corny Collins holds auditions to see who will be the next teen regular. With the help of her friend Seaweed, Tracy is chosen, angering evil dance queen Amber Von Tussle and her mother Velma. Tracy then decides that it's not fair that black kids can only dance on the show once a month (on "Negro Day"), and with the help of Seaweed, Link, Penny, Motormouth Maybelle, her father, and Edna, she's going to integrate the show.....without denting her 'do. —leoprez1030 It's 1962 and teenagers Tracy Turnblad and her friend Penny Pingleton are avid Corny Collins fans. When the chance to dance on the show is publicized, Tracy jumps on the opportunity. Not only does her dancing skills attract Corny Collins, but also the attention of teen heartthrob Link Larkin. But not everyone is happy with Tracy's joining the show. The show's manager, Velma von Tussle, will do anything to oust Tracy, even if it has to include Tracy's friends Seaweed and Motormouth Maybelle. —Film_Fan

The kind and gender-neutral living doll child of Chucky and Tiffany is being held captive by "Psychs," a violent British ventriloquist who takes advantage of him for his performance, six years after the events of the previous movie. The doll has been derisively dubbed "Shitface" by Psychs, who also frequently abuses him. Shitface is a calm person, but he has violent murderous nightmares. Shitface watches a TV teaser for Jennifer Tilly's upcoming movie Chucky Goes Psycho, which shows Tiffany and Chucky dolls restored from their original parts. being aware that he is their child. Shitface manages to get away from Psychs and finds the Chucky and Tiffany dolls in a Hollywood prop room. Shitface resurrects them with a voodoo amulet called the Heart of Damballa. Tiffany is ecstatic to have a child, but Chucky is shocked. Chickle, perplexed by their child's gender ambiguity-his body lacks genitalia-renames Shitface "Glen," while Tiffany renames them "Glenda." A special effects technician is beheaded by Chucky and Tiffany using a wire. Jennifer contacts the police after discovering the decapitated body. Glen/Glenda, Chucky, and Tiffany use her limousine to smuggle themselves into her house. After seeing his parents kill the technician, Glen/Glenda questions them about their motivations. The question surprises Tiffany and Chucky. Feeling responsible as a parent, Tiffany tries to persuade Chucky to stop killing for the sake of their child, but Chucky makes a false promise. In the meantime, Jennifer attempts to land a part as the Virgin Mary in the first feature film directed by rapper Redman. To the dismay of her assistant Joan, she invites him to her house with the intention of luring him into the part. Chucky and Tiffany decide to give their souls to Jennifer and Redman. With the intention of using her child as a host for Glen/Glenda's soul, Tiffany knocks them out and uses a turkey baster to inseminate Jennifer with Chucky's semen. In order to murder Pete Peters, a paparazzo who had been pursuing Jennifer, Chucky takes Glen/Glenda on a covert joyride. Peters is killed when Glen/Glenda unintentionally causes him to fall and get soaked in sulfuric acid. Chucky is thrilled while Glen/Glenda is appalled. When Jennifer awakens, she realizes she is pregnant and assumes Redman is to blame. Redman explains that since he had a vasectomy in the past, this is not possible. Because he does not think pregnant women are attractive enough for his vision, he fires Jennifer from his movie. When Glen and Glenda witness Redman's misogyny, Tiffany becomes furious and guts him. When Jennifer awakens the following morning, the voodoo magic has resulted in a full pregnant belly. To replace Redman, Chucky kidnaps Jennifer and her bereft driver, Stan. Glen and Glenda are two distinct souls in the same body; Glen is a pacifist and Glenda is a psychopath. This is made clear when Jennifer's assistant Joan tries to assist but is killed by Glenda. Both Glen and Glenda can inhabit the twins, a boy and a girl, that Jennifer gives birth to, and Tiffany knows this. But in the midst of the chaos, Chucky has a realization: he no longer longs to become human and has finally come to terms with his life as a living doll. Tiffany is devastated and chooses to break up with Chucky after rejecting him. Chucky is furious and throws a knife at Jennifer to keep Tiffany from leaving him, but Stan leaps to her defense and gives his life. The dolls are forced to leave when the police show up. Jennifer is taken to the hospital in a hurry. Tiffany starts to drug Jennifer and take control of her, but Chucky breaks in and uses an axed to kill Tiffany. Feeling devastated, Glen loses his temper and attacks Chucky, using the axed to hit him. Chucky thinks it is Glenda, but Glen tells him it is him, not his killer twin. Before being beheaded, Chucky commends Glen for his deeds after Glen dismembers him. Jennifer consoles Glen as he sobs after realizing what he has done. After Glen and Glenda transferred their souls into Jennifer's two children's bodies, she is now raising them five years later. At a twins' birthday celebration, a nanny quits because Glenda frightens her. Tiffany successfully transferred her soul into Jennifer's body, which is revealed when Jennifer beats her to death in a fit of rage. As Glen opens a birthday present, Chucky's severed arm suddenly sprang up and seized him.

She's the perfect all-American parent: a great cook and homemaker, a devoted recycler, and a woman who'll literally kill to keep her children happy. A picture perfect middle class family is shocked when they find out that one of their neighbors is receiving obscene phone calls. The mom takes slights against her family very personally, and it turns out she is indeed the one harassing the neighbor. As other slights befall her beloved family, the body count begins to increase, and the police get closer to the truth, threatening the family's picture perfect world. —Ed Sutton <esutton@mindspring.com> The Sutphins - dentist father Eugene, housewife mother Beverly, and late teen children, boy-crazy and flea market aficionado Misty, and horror movie fan Chip - are a stereotypical suburban family living in Baltimore. Beverly in particular is seen as being "perfect" in her quest to be just like the television mothers of the late 1950s. In that perfection, Beverly does and will not tolerate anything against her sensibilities, especially if it affects her or her family, and will take whatever measure to ensure people adhere to that sensibility... or else. Slowly, evidence mounts that Beverly is the perpetrator of obscene telephone calls to neighbor Dottie Hinkle, and the murders of several people in their neighborhood who have crossed their family in some form or another. Beverly laughs off such suggestions, but even her family members end up believing she is guilty of all the murders, with possibly more to come. Those accusations end up being not an issue to most in the Sutphin family, who use their fifteen minutes of fame to their advantage. Even Beverly believes that she can clear herself of all charges despite the overwhelming evidence against her. —Huggo She's the perfect all-American parent: a great cook and homemaker, a devoted recycler, and a woman who'll literally kill to keep her children happy. Beverly Sutphin's murderous habits turn her into a media celebrity in John Waters' sharp-edged satire on family life, tabloid TV, video store customers who don't rewind, and other topics. —Anonymous

In 1950s Baltimore, a bad boy with a heart of gold wins the love of a good girl, whose boyfriend sets out for revenge. Baltimore, 1954. With the city's teens split between the refined Squares and the rebellious Drapes, Cry-Baby, an effortlessly cool Greaser, and his Perfecto-clad gang stir up trouble and break hearts. And then, sparks fly when Cry-Baby locks eyes with preppy Allison, enraging her possessive boyfriend. As the Squares conspire to tear them apart, only a few unlikely allies can help Cry-Baby and his misunderstood crew escape a jail sentence. But when young passion is this powerful, not even the law can stand in the way of true love. —Nick Riganas Allison is a "square" good girl who has decided she wants to be bad and falls hard for Cry-Baby Walker, a Greaser (or "Drape" in John Waters parlance). Spoofing Elvis movies and Juvenile Delinquency scare films of the '50s, this movie follows the adventures of Cry-Baby who, though he is sent to juvie, is determined to cross class (and taste) boundaries to get Allison back. —Linda (& Moo)

A mentally disabled man gets help from a sociopath when he tries to reunite with his dying father, who years earlier disowned him.

In Baltimore, 1962, a rebellious "pleasantly plump" teenager attempts to be one of the featured stars on a popular dance show and win the coveted Miss Auto Show crown.