“Sordid Lives” Film on DVD

This is the film that started it all…. Del Shores’ “Sordid Lives”!!  It began as a hit stage play, then became a cult movie phenomenon, and eventually a popular television series (with most of the film stars reprising their roles)!  One of the most quoted, most watched, and most adored comedy films in recent film history!  Available on DVD… autographed by Mr. Shores!

“Sordid Lives” (Film)

Starring:
Bonnie Bedelia - Latrelle Williamson
Beau Bridges - G. W. Nethercott
Olivia Newton-John – Bitsy Mae Harling
Delta Burke - Noleta Nethercott
Beth Grant - Sissy Hickey
Leslie Jordan - Brother Boy “Earl” Ingram
Ann Walker - LaVonda Dupree
Newell Alexander - Wardell “Bubba” Owens
Sarah Hunley - Juanita Bartlett
Earl Bullock - Odelle Owens
Kirk Geiger - Ty Williamson
Mary Margaret Lewis – Ethel
Mitch Carter – Bumper
Lorna Scott – Vera Lisso
Gloria LeRoy – Peggy Ingram

Writer/Director: Del Shores

Movie Synopsis:
Writer-director Del Shores serves up a heaping helping of Southern-fried comic melodrama in this adaptation of his own play about infidelity, country & western music, and Airstream trailers. When their sister dies, Latrelle (Bonnie Bedelia), LaVonda (Ann Walker), and Sissy (Beth Grant) plan her funeral — an unenviable task, considering that they must carefully hide the deceased’s affair with amputee G.W. (Beau Bridges) from his wife, the vindictive Noleta (Delta Burke). Meanwhile, the trio has to come to terms with two cases of sexual orientation: Latrelle’s openly gay soap-opera star son Ty (Kirk Geiger), whose sexuality she continues to deny; and their only brother, “Brother Boy” (Leslie Jordan), who’s serving a sentence in a mental ward for his adamant belief that he is actually country & western legend Tammy Wynette. Playing an aspiring singer-songwriter, Olivia Newton-John turns up to provide the film with the occasional musical interlude.

This twisted, white-trash tale “puts the ‘fun’ in ‘dysfunctional’” (Toronto Sun)

Toss in a couple of feuding, big-haired daughters, a jumpy aunt who just quit smoking, the scorned neighbor from hell, and crazy, cross-dressing “Brother Boy” – and you’ve got an outrageous “train wreck you can’t help but watch!” (Chicago Tribune)