John Waters’s First Film in 20 Years Will Star Aubrey Plaza, and I, For One, Am Prepared

There may be arguably no higher particular person than John Waters (within the weirdo-filmmaker neighborhood, no less than), and the truth that it’s been 20 years since Waters’s final function movie, A Soiled Disgrace, is a indisputable fact that sits heavy on the center of Criterion buffs all over the place. Thus, once I heard that Waters is ready to start manufacturing on a brand new film starring none aside from my longtime Parks and Recreation and White Lotus crush Aubrey Plaza, I used to be abuzz with pleasure.

Waters’s new movie, titled Liarmouth: A Really feel-Unhealthy Romance, has been known as a “hilariously filthy story of intercourse, crime, and household dysfunction.” It allegedly revolves round a scammer and compulsive liar (named—what else?—Marsha Sprinkle) who steals from her household and usually runs amok after a breakup. Crush apart, ever since Plaza completely slayed her function as a mentally unwell wannabe-LA-influencer-girlie within the 2017 movie Ingrid Goes West, it’s been apparent that she possesses some critical, borderline-scary appearing expertise, and I can’t consider a greater director to profit from mentioned expertise than Waters. Even in sitcoms and comedies like The To-Do Record, Plaza merely pulls off “bizarre younger girl” like no one else. (Apart from, all you must say to me are the phrases “unlawful trampoline park,” and I’m in.)