It's 1962 and Tracy Turnblad has the largest bouffant on the block. She also has all the right moves to be on the local dance show and win the crown of Miss Auto Show as well as the ex-steady of Amber the snooty reigning princess. But Amber is not too happy and has other plans for Tracy.
This fast moving Cinderella-story comedy follows the fortunes of 18 year-old Connie Doyle (Ricki Lake). Homeless penniless and pregnant Connie's life changes forever when she is mistaken for another woman after the train she is travelling on crashes.
101 Films presents Skinner (1993), a dark and brutal horror from director Ivan Nagy and writer Paul Hart-Wilden and title 010 on 101 Films' Black Label. Starring Ted Raimi (Spider-Man), Traci Lords (Blade), David Warshofsky (There Will Be Blood), Richard Schiff (Se7en) and Rikki Lake (Hairspray), Skinner is released for the first time in the UK on any format. At one time thought a lost film, Skinner has been resurrected from obscurity in a mind-blowing 4K restoration so cult cinema fans can now witness this 90s horror gem in all its sinful, sleazy, and violent glory. Dennis Skinner (Raimi) seems like a normal enough guy, but he has a very abnormal hobby. At night, he creeps through the back streets looking for potential victims, and when he finds one, carefully removes their skin with an elaborate collection of knives. Heidi (Lords), one of Dennis' victims, is on his trail, waiting for a chance to get her revenge, but in the meantime, Dennis has developed a crush on Kerry (Lake), and wants to find a way to show her he really cares. Special Features: A Touch of Scandal - Interview with Director Ivan Nagy Under His Skin - Interview with Star Ted Raimi Bargain Bin VHS For A Buck - Interview with Screenwriter Paul Hart-Wilden Cutting Skinner - Interview with Editor Jeremy Kasten Flaying sequence out-takes and extended takes Trailer
101 Films presents Skinner (1993), a dark and brutal horror from director Ivan Nagy and writer Paul Hart-Wilden and title 010 on 101 Films' Black Label. Starring Ted Raimi (Spider-Man), Traci Lords (Blade), David Warshofsky (There Will Be Blood), Richard Schiff (Se7en) and Rikki Lake (Hairspray), Skinner is released for the first time in the UK on any format. At one time thought a lost film, Skinner has been resurrected from obscurity in a mind-blowing 4K restoration so cult cinema fans can now witness this 90s horror gem in all its sinful, sleazy and violent glory. Dennis Skinner (Raimi) seems like a normal enough guy, but he has a very abnormal hobby. At night, he creeps through the back streets looking for potential victims, and when he finds one, carefully removes their skin with an elaborate collection of knives. Heidi (Lords), one of Dennis' victims, is on his trail, waiting for a chance to get her revenge, but in the meantime Dennis has developed a crush on Kerry (Lake), and wants to find a way to show her he really cares. Extras: Limited edition booklet includes Finding Skinner' - Screenwriter Paul Hart- Wilden on the long and multi-faceted search for the lost' Skinner master Additional extras: A Touch of Scandal - Interview with Director Ivan Nagy Under His Skin - Interview with Star Ted Raimi Bargain Bin VHS For A Buck - Interview with Screenwriter Paul Hart-Wilden Cutting Skinner - Interview with Editor Jeremy Kasten Flaying sequence out-takes and extended takes Trailer
He's a doll. He's a dreamboat. He's a delinquent. Cry Baby finally makes it to DVD for the first time! Cult director John Waters goes mainstream (well sort of) in this send-up of 1950s teen melodramas. Heart-throb Johnny Depp stars in the title role as a glamorous delinquent who heads a gang of hoods known as the Drapes. Wade 'Cry-Baby' Walker (Depp) is the coolest toughest hood in his Baltimore high school. His ability to shed one single tear drives all the
Who wants to die for art!! The ultimate outsider turned underground royalty; I Am Divine is a biographical portrait that charts the legendary icon's rise to infamy as a cult superstar. This is the definitive biography honouring Divine in a way she always craved: as a serious artist and immortal star. Featuring rare movie footage live performances and with brand new interviews with John Waters Ricki Lake Mink Stole Tab Hunter Holly Woodlawn Michael Musto Bruce Vilance and Divine's mother Frances Milstead (who provided her final interview just months before she passed away) in addition to many more of Divine's family friends colleagues and forever indebted devotees.
The setting is a working-class neighbourhood of New York in the 1950s. Among the characters are prostitute Tralala her brutal pimp Vinnie an effiminate homosexual and a corrupt union official. Based on the book by Hubert Selby Jr. this is an extremely disturbing and effective adaption of his once-banned novel.
The mean and desolate streets of Brooklyn are home to a host of unhappy hopeless characters stuck in dead-end lives. A young prostitute emotionally numb from having sold her body so many times regularly leads her prospective clients to a dark alley where a gang beats and robs them; an office worker cannot deal with his repressed homosexuality; and a young girl's father refuses to admit that she is eight months pregnant. All these stories take place in a world waiting to explode: local workers are engaged in an angry strike against a nearby factory while not too far away at the Brooklyn Navy Yard soldiers sail daily for Korea many never to return. The personal and the political intermingle in this bleak look at poverty drugs and violence in the inner-city in the early 1950s based on Hubert Selby Jr's controversial book. Jennifer Jason Leigh received the Best Supporting Actress Award from the New York Film Critics Circle in 1990 for her work in this film.
No parents. No rules! A group of teenage runaways - fleeing abusive parents prostitution drugs and educational isolation - try to survive together on the mean streets of Los Angeles... An all-star cast takes you on an unforgettable tour of Hollywood's notorious underground; from the after-hours dance clubs to the hidden drug dens it's a no holds barred look at life in the fast lane.
Off-the-wall director John Waters latest movie stars Melanie Griffith as the Hollywood star kidnapped by underground filmmakers and forced to star in their latest low budget movie!
Director John Waters puts a twist on the everyday mediocrity of suburban life in the hilarious satire Seria Mom. See Kathleen Turner like never before as Beverly Sutphin the seemingly perfect homemaker who will stop at nothing to rid the neighbourhood of anyone failing to live up to her moral code. Serial Mom is a killer comedy that will take you over the edge with laughter!
The setting is a working-class neighbourhood of New York in the 1950s. Among the characters are prostitute Tralala her brutal pimp Vinnie an effiminate homosexual and a corrupt union official. Based on the book by Hubert Selby Jr. (author of 'Requiem For A Dream') this is an extremely disturbing and effective adaption of his once-banned novel.
The Notebook (Dir. Nick Cassavetes) (2004): A sweeping love story told by a man reading from his faded notebook (James Garner) to a woman in a nursing home (Gena Rowlands - real-life mother of Nick Cassavetes). 'The Notebook' follows the lives of two North Carolina teens from very different worlds (Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams). Though her upbringing takes place in an antebellum mansion and he grew up in the kind of house where musicians strum on the porch that doesn't stop Noah and Allie from spending one incredible summer together before they are separated first by her parents and then by WWII. After the war is over everything is different. Allie is engaged to a successful businessman and Noah lives alone with his 200-year-old house that he lovingly restores. But when Allie reads a newspaper article about Noah's handiwork. She knows that she's got to find him and make a decision once and for all about the path her life - and her love - must take... August Rush (Dir. Kirsten Sheridan) (2007): August Rush tells the story of a charismatic young Irish guitarist (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) and a sheltered young cellist (Keri Russell) who have a chance encounter one magical night above New York's Washington Square but are soon torn apart leaving in their wake an infant August Rush orphaned by circumstance. Now performing on the streets of New York and cared for by a mysterious stranger (Robin Williams) August (Freddie Highmore) uses his remarkable musical talent to seek the parents from whom he was separated at birth. Hairspray (Dir. John Waters) (1987): It's 1962 and Tracy Turnblad has the largest bouffant on the block. She also has all the right moves to be on the local dance show and win the crown of Miss Auto Show as well as the ex-steady of Amber the snooty reigning princess. But Amber is not too happy and has other plans for Tracy.
A bank robber on the run after shooting a policeman is pursued by both the law who want to capture him and the press who are anxious for his story...
Pecker (1998): Pecker, a sandwich shop clerk, takes photos of his rather odd family and friends and nobody thinks anything of them until one day a New York art dealer discovers his work and makes him famous. Is this what Pecker really wants? Another quirky entry from cult director John Waters. Hairspray (1987): It's 1962 and Tracy Turnblad has the largest bouffant on the block. She also has all the right moves to be on the local dance show and win the crown of Miss Auto Show, a...
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