Cecil B. Demented is a 2000 black comedy film written and directed by John Waters. The film stars Melanie Griffith as a snobby A-list Hollywood actress who is kidnapped by a band of terrorist filmmakers who force her to star in their underground film. Stephen Dorff stars as the titular character and leader of the group, with Alicia Witt, Adrian Grenier, Mike Shannon, and Maggie Gyllenhaal co-starring as the rest of his gang of filmmakers. Each of the filmmakers in the film bear tattoos of various underground directors' names, including Kenneth Anger, Sam Peckinpah, David Lynch, Otto... Preminger, Herschell Gordon Lewis, Spike Lee, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Pedro Almodóvar, and Andy Warhol. The title of the film alludes to legendary director Cecil B. DeMille. The film is loosely based on the 1974 kidnapping of Patricia Hearst and like all of Waters' films, was shot in Baltimore, Maryland; Hearst has a cameo role. The film was given a limited release in North American cinemas on August 11, 2000. It was released to home media through Artisan, and later, Lionsgate Home Entertainment in the United States.
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| Release date: | August 2, 2000 |
| Directed by: | John Waters |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 87 Minutes |
| Producer: | Joseph M. Caracciolo Jr., Mark Tarlov, John Fiedler |
| Editor: | Jeffrey Wolf |
| Music by: | Basil Poledouris, Zoë Poledouris |
| Cinematography: | Robert M. Stevens |
| Screenplay by: | John Waters |
| Estimated budget: | $10,000,000 |
| Genre: | Comedy, Action, Thriller |