[4] A movie version by the same name was released in 1990 by MGM starring Beau Bridges, Tess Harper, Judge Reinhold, Keith Carradine, Patrika Darbo, and Beverly D'Angelo.

In 1999 Shores wrote and directed the screen version of Sordid Lives starring Beau Bridges, Delta Burke, Olivia Newton John, Bonnie Bedelia, and Leslie Jordan.

[12] Shores directed The Trials and Tribulations of a Trailer Trash Housewife which was released at the Zephyr Theatre in Los Angeles in 2003.

[13] In 2006, Shores revived three of his plays (Sordid Lives, Southern Baptist Sissies, The Trials and Tribulations of a Trailer Trash Housewife) at the Zephyr Theatre in Los Angeles.

[16][17] In 2008, Shores created, wrote, directed, and executive-produced 12 prequel episodes of Sordid Lives: The Series which aired on American LGBT-interest cable channel Logo[18] with a much-anticipated sequel, A Very Sordid Wedding, premiering in 2016 with a mixture of the film and series cast, with Levi Kreis, Emerson Collins, Katherine Bailess, T. Ashanti Mozelle, Dale Dickey, Whoopi Goldberg, Alec Mapa, and Carole Cook joining the cast.