TITLE...........: Desperate Living (1977) STARS...........: Liz Renay, Mink Stole, Susan Lowe, Edith Massey DIRECTOR........: John Waters WRITERS.........: John Waters GENRE...........: Comedy, Crime TOMATOMETER.....: 73/80 IMDB SCORE......: 7.0 IMDB LINK.......: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075936 RUNTIME.........: 1h 30mn SIZE............: 7.34 GB VIDEO CODEC.....: HEVC (Main10@L4) BITRATE.........: 11000 Kbps (2-pass) RESOLUTION......: 1800x1080 ASPECT RATIO....: 1.66:1 FRAMERATE.......: 23.976 fps AUDIO1..........: English FLAC 1.0 AUDIO2..........: Commentary by by John Waters and actor Liz Renay SUBTITLES.......: ENG, SPA, Commentary SOURCE..........: Criterion Blu-ray ENCODE DATE.....: 2026-07-28 Following the unrepentant outrageousness of Pink Flamingos and Female Trouble, director John Waters brought his notorious trash trilogy to a fittingly twisted close with this antifascist fairy tale. After hysterical housewife Peggy Gravel (Mink Stole) murders her husband with the help of her fed-up housekeeper (Jean Hill), the newfound “sisters in crime” escape to the bizarro shantytown of Mortville, a depraved penal colony presided over by a despotic queen (Edith Massey) whose tyranny pushes her subjects to shocking revolt. Deviant cops, death by dog food, DIY surgery—Waters unleashes all this and more in an at once relentlessly warped and oddly moral vision of queer rebellion. Extras • Commentary by John Waters and actor Liz Renay (2004) • Straight to Hell • Return to Mortville • Peggy, Mole, and Princess Coo-Coo • Production Design • Trailer