What is the duration of Desperate Living?

The duration of Desperate Living is 91 mins.

What is the original language of Desperate Living?

The original language of Desperate Living is English.

Who directed Desperate Living?

Desperate Living was directed by .

Which studio made Desperate Living?

Desperate Living was produced by Charm City Productions.

What is the total box office for Desperate Living?

The total box office for Desperate Living is $1109.

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Q: Does Desperate Living have end credit scenes?

Desperate Living does not have end credit scenes.

Comedy

Crime

Box Office

$1.1K

Runtime

91 mins

Language

English

After murdering her husband, Peggy Gravel and her murderous maid Grizelda find themselves stranded in the chaotic town of Mortville, a bizarre place ruled by the flamboyant Queen Carlotta, who presides over a crooked cadre of eccentric misfits. Their arrival threatens to upend the town’s twisted order.

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Does Desperate Living have end credit scenes?

No!

Desperate Living does not have end credit scenes. You can leave when the credits roll.

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Peggy Gravel and her overweight maid, Grizelda Brown, flee after Grizelda smothers Peggy’s husband Bosley Gravel to death. A cross-dressing policeman arrests them 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. They become associates of self-hating lesbian wrestler Mole McHenry, who wants a sex change to please her lover, Muffy St. Jacques. After confiscating a lottery ticket from Peggy, Mole wins the Maryland Lottery and uses the money to obtain gender reassignment surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital. However, Muffy is repulsed by Mole’s phalloplasty and insists he cut it off, so Mole gives himself a penectomy.

Most of Mortville’s social outcasts—criminals, nudists, and sexual deviants—conspire to overthrow Queen Carlotta, who banishes Coo-Coo after she elopes with a garbage collector named Herbert, whom Queen Carlotta’s guards later shoot to death. Princess Coo-Coo hides in Peggy and Grizelda’s house with her dead lover. When Peggy betrays Coo-Coo to the Queen’s guards, Grizelda fights them and dies when the house collapses on her. Peggy, however, joins the queen in terrorizing her subjects, even infecting them (and **Princess Coo-Coo ) with rabies.

Eventually, Mortville’s denizens, led by Mole, overthrow Queen Carlotta and execute Peggy by shooting a gun up her anus. To celebrate their freedom, the townsfolk roast Carlotta on a spit and serve her, pig-like, on a platter with an apple in her mouth.

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Step-Van

Chrysler

1975

Cordoba

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Electra Glide

Mercedes-Benz

1977

450 SEL W116

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1967

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1972

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