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Where was Desperate Living filmed?

1980 film, directed by John Waters.

  • Baltimore

The story is set in Baltimore, so the filming stayed close to the setting.

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Where it’s set vs. where it was filmed

Set in
Baltimore
Filmed in
Baltimore
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About Desperate Living

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Released
1980
Director
John Waters
Cast
Mink StoleEdith MasseyMary Vivian PearceLiz RenayCookie MuellerChanning Wilroy
Genre
ComedyLgbtq-relatedCrimeFantasy

Neurotic and delusional Guilford housewife Peggy Gravel and her overweight maid, Grizelda Brown, go on the lam after Grizelda smothers Peggy's husband Bosley to death.

A cross-dressing policeman arrests the pair and gives them an ultimatum: go to jail or be exiled to Mortville, a filthy shantytown ruled by the evil Queen Carlotta and her treasonous daughter, Princess Coo-Coo.

Peggy and Grizelda choose Mortville, and engage in lesbian prison sex.

Famous lines from Desperate Living

Could you name the film from one of these? Famous lines turn up in the daily game.

  • You were raped?!Mole
  • Sometimes I need a man.Muffy
  • Please, don't sit on me!Peggy
  • Oh, Muffy just gave me an abortion.Mole
  • Holy shit Mole, what happened to you?!Muffy's Friend

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