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Sordid Lives became an instant cult
classic in the gay community when it hit the screen
in 2000. Since then, it's still one of the top selling
gay dvd's! It's white trash comedy at it's best!
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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 (played by
Leslie Jordan) and the dead woman's grandson, an actor
in Los Angeles who hasn't come out to his mother. The tone
shifts wildly, and the humor depends on your fondness for
the white-trash genre--if you like it, this will tickle
your ribs; if you don't, it'll fall flat as the panhandle
landscape. But it must be said that the cast (including
Bonnie Bedelia, Beau Bridges, Delta Burke, and Olivia Newton-John)
dives right in, no matter how over-the-top their characters
get.
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