Rotten
Where once Waters was brilliantly polluted, now he comes off diluted.
Susan Wloszczyna, USA Today
Cecil B. Demented
Demented forever!
2000 · 1h 28m · R
Comedy, Crime
Directed by
John Waters
,
Peter Gil
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Cecil B. Demented
Overview
A young lunatic director and his devoted cult of cinema terrorists kidnap a Hollywood movie goddess and force her to star in their radical underground movie.
Director and cast
- John Waters Director
- Peter Gil Director
- Melanie Griffith as Honey Whitlock
- Stephen Dorff as Cecil B. Demented
- Alicia Witt as Cherish
- Adrian Grenier as Lyle
- Maggie Gyllenhaal as Raven
- Lawrence Gilliard Jr. as Lewis
- Jack Noseworthy as Rodney
- Michael Shannon as Petie
- Harry Dodge as Dinah
- Eric Barry as Fidget
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
53%
Tomatometer
Fresh
A small, scruffy, but agreeably energized comedy.
Robert Horton, Film.com
Rotten
An insufferable, self-important, sloppily made bore of a tirade.
Rita Kempley, Washington Post
Rotten
Appears to have been written and directed by a grade-school dropout snorting airplane glue.
Michael Atkinson, Mr. Showbiz
Rotten
Waters' outlaw analyses of pop culture, always a crucial part of his films, have now started to consume them.
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
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