Desperate Living Page #4

Synopsis: A rich housewife murders her husband with the help of her overweight maid, and the two go on the run, ending up in Mortville, a town providing refuge for criminals. They shack up with a lesbian ex-wrestler and her murderess lover, before running into the tyrannical Queen Carlotta, ruler of Mortville...
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
Director(s): John Waters
Production: WARNER BROTHERS PICTURES
 
IMDB:
7.2
Rotten Tomatoes:
70%
Year:
1977
90 min
825 Views


You both sure are ugly b*tches.

Go on, sit down.

Muffy, we got company.

We really hadn't planned

on coming here.

We're from the Guilford

neighborhood in Baltimore.

I been to Baltimore a few times.

Some burg. I hate it.

All them hillbilly fucks

looking at you.

Well, if you want

to know the truth...

we had no choice

but to come to Mortville.

We're in a lot of trouble.

You see, I'm quite prominent...

and we accidentally

killed my husband.

I don't care what you did.

Nobody's in Mortville

for a vacation.

We all did something,

or we wouldn't be here

in the first place.

Dinner's served.

I'm really not that hungry.

I invited you to dinner,

and you accepted.

Now you'll eat this if I

have to jam it down your throat.

Muffy, I called you to dinner.

Do I have to come in there

and smack you?

You don't have

to shout the house down.

I heard you all right already.

This is my girlfriend

Muffy St. Jacques...

the most beautiful woman

in all of Mortville.

Hi.

This is Grizelda and...

I forget your name.

Peggy Gravel. It's a pleasure.

We rent the room out back...

so I guess

we'll be neighbors.

Really? I sleep in the room

right next to you... naked.

You're five minutes late

for dinner, Muffy.

Don't you remember our little

talk about your laziness?

I was having an erotic dream.

I warned you about

thinking about men...

before your afternoon nap.

Dirty thoughts about dirty men

bring on dirty dreams...

and you're a dirty girl, Muffy.

Mole, I can't help

what I think about.

It's not my fault Mr. Sandman

is not a bulldozer like you.

I'm warning you, Muffy.

Mole, sometimes I need a man.

I'm a man, Muffy... A man

trapped in a woman's body.

Yeah, Mole, but you don't

have the same big deal.

- Take it back!

- Take it out! It hurts!

- Take back what you said to me!

- Mole, you're the only one.

I love you. You're my man.

I'm only queer for...

That's better. Muffy knows

how I feel about men.

I'm not one

to be pushed over my limit.

That hurt!

Go!

Come on!

There they are.

Don't move, scags.

You're both under arrest...

by the order

of Her Majesty, Queen Carlotta.

Anything you say could put you

in front of the firing squad.

Take it easy!

We ain't fighting you!

Help us! Please help us!

Don't worry.

Standard procedure in Mortville.

Officer, would you like

a cup of gin or something?

Stay back, peasant woman!

Stay right there.

Hold it right there.

Come on.

Come on, you fatso.

Get up in there.

Oh, Grizelda, I can't.

Let's go! Come on!

Get out of there. Let's go.

Come on.

Come on, get up there.

Let's go.

Move it!

Come on!

Hey, boys,

look what I brought you!

We brought you

some fresh meat!

Rate this script:5.0 / 1 vote

John Waters

John Samuel Waters Jr. (born April 22, 1946) is an American film director, screenwriter, author, actor, stand-up comedian, journalist, visual artist, and art collector, who rose to fame in the early 1970s for his transgressive cult films. more…

All John Waters scripts | John Waters Scripts

0 fans

Submitted on August 05, 2018

Discuss this script with the community:

0 Comments

    Translation

    Translate and read this script in other languages:

    Select another language:

    • - Select -
    • 简体中文 (Chinese - Simplified)
    • 繁體中文 (Chinese - Traditional)
    • Español (Spanish)
    • Esperanto (Esperanto)
    • 日本語 (Japanese)
    • Português (Portuguese)
    • Deutsch (German)
    • العربية (Arabic)
    • Français (French)
    • Русский (Russian)
    • ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada)
    • 한국어 (Korean)
    • עברית (Hebrew)
    • Gaeilge (Irish)
    • Українська (Ukrainian)
    • اردو (Urdu)
    • Magyar (Hungarian)
    • मानक हिन्दी (Hindi)
    • Indonesia (Indonesian)
    • Italiano (Italian)
    • தமிழ் (Tamil)
    • Türkçe (Turkish)
    • తెలుగు (Telugu)
    • ภาษาไทย (Thai)
    • Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
    • Čeština (Czech)
    • Polski (Polish)
    • Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)
    • Românește (Romanian)
    • Nederlands (Dutch)
    • Ελληνικά (Greek)
    • Latinum (Latin)
    • Svenska (Swedish)
    • Dansk (Danish)
    • Suomi (Finnish)
    • فارسی (Persian)
    • ייִדיש (Yiddish)
    • հայերեն (Armenian)
    • Norsk (Norwegian)
    • English (English)

    Citation

    Use the citation below to add this screenplay to your bibliography:

    Style:MLAChicagoAPA

    "Desperate Living" Scripts.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 19 May 2024. <https://www.scripts.com/script/desperate_living_6774>.

    We need you!

    Help us build the largest writers community and scripts collection on the web!

    Watch the movie trailer

    Desperate Living

    Browse Scripts.com

    The Studio:

    ScreenWriting Tool

    Write your screenplay and focus on the story with many helpful features.