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Released
2004 · FILM

A Dirty Shame

A suburban housewife's life turns upside down when a head injury transforms her from a prude into a sex-obsessed maniac, clashing with a self-proclaimed "sexual healer" in this outrageous satirical comedy.

Threatening the very limits of common decency.

Directed by
Written by
Runtime
89 min
Comedy

Synopsis

Sylvia Stickles operates a convenience store alongside her husband and mother‑in‑law. After being struck on the head, she changes from an uptight prude into a sex‑crazed lunatic. While rampaging through town, Sylvia draws the attention of Ray Ray, a sexual healer and tow‑truck driver who is searching for the world.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Jeffrey WolfShot by Steve GainerScored by George S ClintonDesigned by Vincent Peranio

Box Office

2004 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.1× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$1.9M

Budget$15.0M
Worldwide gross$1.9M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening week (7-day): $39K

Peak 1 theaters

Also known as

  • Los sexoadictoses

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