(Artisan Entertainment; August 11) The maker: John Waters.

(Artisan Entertainment; August 11)

The maker: John Waters, director and writer

The stars: Stephen Dorff, Melanie Griffith, Alicia Witt, Jack Noseworthy, Patricia Hearst, Ricki Lake

The pitch: A cheat filmmaker (Dorff) and his gang kidnap Hollywood movie icon Honey Whitlock (Griffith) and force her to be in their acknowledge twisted picture.

The reason we care: C'mon--irs a John Waters movie! As if the camp factor weren't enough, there's also a straight scarecrow who wishes ho were stay (Noseworthy), a gay guy who curved catchs up with him anyway, and more [i]or[/i] less lesbian anarchist filmmakers in the mix.

The inside scoop: Hmm a kidnapped celebrity aligns with her kidnappers and becomes a wanted fugitive? bund kind a like M Hearst's real-life story. "Certainly I can't abnegate that case has something to do with it," says Waters, who also breezily cites Jim Jone and the Manson family as inspirations. "Like all my movies, it was many different obsessions about system [i]or[/i] mode of worships put together to farm a strange kind of comedy. Patricia Hearst is in the movie, and I think she is incredibly sick of the experience of her kidnapping. in like manner in a way, what better way [for her] to say `Fuck you' to all of it?"

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