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Desperate Living
Comedy, Crime
After killing her husband, Peggy Gravel and her murderous maid Grizelda wind up in the crazy town of Mortville, where Queen Carlotta presides over a sleazy collection of misfits.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy confrontational queer camp, grotesque satire, and deliberately bad-taste comedy that weaponizes shock against social respectability.
- Tone
- darkly comic, campy, surreal
- Payoff
- amusement, catharsis
- Pacing
- brisk
- Intensity
- intense
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- social outcasts, authoritarianism, sexual transgression, class resentment, rebellion
- Setting
- contemporary, grotesque anarchic fantasy town
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Where to watch
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Fandango At Home
