Cast: Beau Bridges, Bonnie Bedelia, Delta Burke, Ann Walker, Leslie Jordan, Olivia Newton-John, Kirk Geiger, Beth Grant
Marvelously campy, queer, white trash comedy cult hit, whose incredible cast includes Olivia Newton-John as a dyke! Join Latrelle, Bitsy Mae, Noleta, Wardell, and "Brother Boy," as they chew gum, chain smoke, gossip and trash each other on their messy paths through a family funeral.
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The Logo series is based on this camp classic
One night I wandered through a gay campground and heard two separate campsites watching the film and shouting favorite lines aloud.
Sordid Lives is like an addiction, except there is no group you can get relief from -- you just need to watch the film again...and again.
Lovers of white-trash camp should drop your corn dogs and get this raucous comedy. Like a trailer-trash soap opera on speed, Sordid Lives centers on the extended family of Texas rednecks who’ve come together for the funeral of their adulterous matriarch. There’s Peggy, the randy gal accidentally killed when she tripped over the wooden legs of the married G.W. (Bridges); her ever-squabbling big-haired daughters LaVonda (Walker) and Latrelle (Bedelia); G.W.’s wife, the revengeful neighbor Noleta (Burke); and Peggy’s sister Sissy (Grant), who picked the wrong time to quit smoking.
Rounding out the cast of family members is brother Earl (Jordan), a Tammy Wynette-obsessed drag queen who’s spent 23 years in a mental institution fighting "a severe case of homosexuality with a demonic side of transvestism"; the hunky Ty (Geiger), Latrelle’s estranged gay son; and Bitsy Mae (Newton-John), a guitar-strumming, country music-singing ex-con whose had her own illicit affair with the deceased. Some take the news of Peggy’s death with a shrug and a piece of pecan pie, while others turn into Thelma and Louise and turn a bar full of men into lace bra-wearing sluts.
The dialogue is snappy and often times fall-out-of-your seats funny. The tantrums, gossips, revelations, breakouts and coming outs spill all over the linoleum floor in this film that deliriously revels in its look at chitin-loving, beer-guzzling, gun-totting, same sex-loving, pill-popping eccentrics.
