Dildo Heaven
- Sun, May 10
Director: Doris Wishman Run Time: 79 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2002
Starring: Dr. Faust, Elizabeth Ash, Everette, Jerry Hart, Mickey Garcia
Hollywood Entertainment is proud to present the LA premiere of Doris Wishman’s final movie: Dildo Heaven, unreleased and unseen since its festival debut in 2002. This special Mother’s Day tribute will feature a conversation with filmmakers and former Wishman crew members Rodney Ascher and Syd Garon and Elizabeth Pauker, director of the forthcoming documentary AKA Doris Wishman. The feature will be preceded by Ascher’s 2020 short film Doris Wishman Directs A Music Video.
Roommates Lisa, Beth, and Tess are three young women who each share the same goal of hooking up with their respective male bosses. While their attempts at seduction get off to a rough start, their peeping tom neighbor Billy spends his days spying through keyholes and trying to get a piece of the action. Will these roommates finally make it with their managers? And what about Billy?
Octogenarian filmmaker and “Queen of Sexploitation” Doris Wishman was working at a sex shop in Miami in the early 90s when she met experimental musician Tom Smith (To Live and Shave in L.A.), spurring a full-blown career revival that saw her honored at film festivals around the world and featured on HBO’s Real Sex and Late Night with Conan O’Brien. Intended to be her comeback movie, Dildo Heaven premiered at the New York Underground Film Festival just months before her passing in 2002 and then was never officially widely released until now. A charming shot-on-video sex comedy that defies all description–and surely the only movie by a senior citizen to feature an original rap theme song–Dildo Heaven (also known as Desperate Desires) is a fitting swan song for one of the most beloved cult filmmakers of all time.