Genre: Comedy, Gay/Lesbian, Mental Institution, Suspense, Black Comedy, Satire, Infidelity
Tagline: A Black Comedy About White Trash
Plot: Sometimes it takes a death to bring a family together. In the film Sordid Lives, the all-star cast puts a comedic twist on a story of unconditional love, acceptance and "coming-out" in a Texas family.The eccentric cast of characters in Sordid Lives come together when their intertwining lives prepare for the funeral of Peggy, the family matriarch. Now Peggy was not your average grandmother, no, she was carrying out an illicit affair with a married man (G.W. Nethercott) in a seedy motel when she took her last breath. No, it wasn't the sex that got her; it was her lover's wooden legs lying in the middle of the floor. Ya see, she got up to use the bathroom, tripped on the legs, hit her head on the sink and well you guessed it -- her brain hemorrhaged and she died right there on the spot! As all good Southern daughters do, her daughter's La Vonda and Latrelle naturally began fighting. It wasn't over what they would get, but whether or not mammma was gonna wear a mink stole in her coffin, you know, one of those with the head still on it (did we mention it was 100 degrees and in the middle of summer?). This isn't Latrelle's only problem, she has a few more to work out. She's simply in denial about a few things, one, how her mamma died and two, about her son being gay. La Vonda has
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Del Shores
The Wilde Girls, The Quick and the Dead, Daddy's Dyin'... Who's Got the Will? |
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Del Shores
Daddy's Dyin'... Who's Got the Will?, Queer as Folk, The Quick and the Dead |
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George S. Clinton
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, Austin Powers in Goldmember |
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