Return to Mortville

Name: Return to Mortville
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2026-06-23
Duration: 14 min
Cast: John Waters, Mink Stole, Susan Lowe, Mary Vivian Pearce, Jean Hill

Return to Mortville (2026)

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Watch film Return to Mortville — John Waters Returns to Mortville | DESPERATE LIVING

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2026-06-23

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The Criterion Collection

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Documentary

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John Waters, Mink Stole, Susan Lowe, Mary Vivian Pearce, Jean Hill, Edith Massey, Liz Renay, Vincent Peranio
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Susan Arosteguy, Peter Becker, Kim Hendrickson, Fumiko Takagi, Andrew Turell, Jonathan Turell

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Richard Chisolm

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Timothy Geraghty, Gabriel Chávez
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Special feature from Criterion’s release of Desperate Living, where writer-director John Waters tours the Baltimore location that served as the site of Mortville, the twisted penal colony inhabited by fugitives, outcasts, and deviants – including hysterical housewife Peggy Gravel and her fed-up housekeeper – and presided over by the despotic Queen Carlotta.