Desperate Living A Screenplay

<p><b>A grotesque and hilarious satire about the American dream, suburban living, and the corrupting influence of power, set in a world that could only have sprung from the unhinged and brilliant mind of John Waters.<br><br></b>On the verge of a suburban mental health crisis, frazzled and wildly unstable housewife Peggy (immortalized by Mink Stole on-screen) runs away from home with her maid and partner in crime, Grizelda (played with spectacular gumption by the sizzling Jean Hill), only to end up in Mortville, a shantytown filled with society’s rejects. Mortville is run by the evil Queen Carlotta, who parades through the cardboard streets taunting and terrorizing her subjects.<br><br>John Waters’s wild and visionary fable lampoons everything from the staid conservatism of the American dream to race and class relations. <i>The New York Times</i> ranked <i>Desperate Living</i> at “the highest peak atop [John Waters]’s trash heap of a filmography.” High praise indeed!</p>