Female Trouble

High comedy. Divine is marvelously funny and John Waters is a very funny man...Female Trouble can’t be dismissed.
-- Judith Crist, New York Magazine

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Female Trouble


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A riotously funny bad-taste epic from director John Waters, Baltimore's "Prince of Puke," this sick classic tells the depraved life story of obese criminal Dawn Davenport (Divine), from her bad-girl youth as a go-go dancer on Baltimore's infamous Block to her death in the electric chair. Mink Stole is terrific as Dawn's bratty daughter Taffy, conceived following a romp on a junkyard mattress with a fat derelict in soiled underpants (also played by Divine). Mary Vivian Pearce and David Lochary co-star as crazed owners of a beauty-parlor who are convinced that "crime equals beauty," and they take Dawn under their wings, forcing her to mainline liquid eyeliner to enhance her appeal. Edith Massey steals the film as Dawn's obsessive neighbor, Ida, who wants her nephew to be gay because heterosexuals lead "sick and boring lives.” A hilariously appalling film, Female Trouble is just as disgusting and far funnier than Waters' previous Pink Flamingos, if not as notorious.
NC-17
Genre
Comedy, Crime, Throwback Thursdays
Runtime
89
Language
English
Director
John Waters
Cast
Mink Stole, Edith Massey

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