Sordid Lives
Screening - Thursday 30th November
Keep your social calendar clear Canberra’s Queer Film Festival will be screening Sordid Lives. - A black comedy about white trash.
If you've got a taste for big hair, broad Texas accents, and gay rights, this mixture of white-trash comedy and coming-out melodrama is for you. Sordid Lives starts out as chicken-fried farce, as a funeral is prepared for a woman who died when she tripped over her adulterous lover's wooden legs; about midway the emphasis shifts to a drag queen unfairly held in a mental institution and the dead woman's grandson, an actor in Los Angeles who hasn't come out to his mother, and of course a lesbian country singer played by Olivia! But it must be said that the cast (including Bonnie Bedelia, Beau Bridges, Delta Burke, and Olivia Newton-John) dive right in, no matter how over-the-top their characters get. — Bret Fetzer (Amazon)
Starring Delta Burke, Beau Bridges and with appearance and songs by Olivia Newton John Dir: Del Shores, USA, 2000
Olivia Newton John as Bitsy Mae Harling, a lesbian ex-con country and western singer
More about Sordid Lives
San Francisco Bay Times:
http://www.sfbaytimes.com/index.php?sec=article&article_id=5195
Del Shores Playwright
http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsS/shores-del.html
Listen to the Soundtrack
http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=1888216&BAB=E
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