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‘Soapdish’ is getting the revival treatment. Time to reassess the OG.
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Welcome to Screen Gems, our weekend dive into queer and queer-adjacent titles of the past that deserve a watch or a re-watch.What a delicious, hilarious movie, and what a bitter pill to swallow.Soapdish flew somewhat under the radar following its release in 1991.
The screwball comedy–a send-up of both popular soap opera tropes and their production–did respectable box office and earned mostly positive reviews.
Leave it to the queers to help the movie find new life as a camp classic thanks to a script loaded with bitchy zingers, and to a hard-working cast of comic talents.The plot: a failing, long-running soap opera titled The Sun Also Sets is going through creative upheaval.
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