Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Audience Rating: X (Mature Audiences Only) Binding: DVD EAN: 9780780648975 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC ISBN: 0780648978 Label: New Line Home Entertainment Manufacturer: New Line Home Entertainment Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: New Line Home Entertainment Region Code: 1 Release Date: September 07, 2004 Running Time: 98 minutes Sales Rank: 30120 Studio: New Line Home Entertainment Theatrical Release Date: 1975
Amazon.com: John Waters expands the definition of female trouble in this mutant tribute to good-girl-gone-bad drive-in melodramas. The girl is, of course, cross-dressing cult icon Divine, Waters's plus-sized muse. Divine is at her most gleefully outrageous as teenage brat Dawn Davenport, who runs away from home and into a life of wanton hedonism all because she didn't get cha-cha heels for Christmas. Almost immediately she's molested by a sleazy motorcycle thug (also played by Divine--is this Waters's idea of 'love thyself'?), but she doesn't let motherhood interfere with her plans of stardom and turns herself into an unlikely fashion statement in an apocalyptic fashion show. Waters's fourth feature, a follow-up to the midnight movie hit Pink Flamingos, is just as cinematically primitive and even more gleefully vulgar, right down to the electric climax of Dawn's road to everlasting fame. --Sean Axmaker
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Rating: - Nice Girls Don't Wear Cha-Cha Heels!
John Waters' 1972 PINK FLAMINGOS was an unexpected "midnight movie" hit, a highly deliberate exercise in ultra-low taste done in a low budget, guerilla-film making style. The 1974 FEMALE TROUBLE was Waters' follow up. It suffers from being unable to top PINK FLAMINGOS--but really, now, what could? So it may be best to judge the film on its own.
The story is a riff on 1950s and 1960s "good girl gone bad" B-movies. In this instance, however, it would be better described as "bad girl gone even badder and then some." Dawn Davenport (Divine) is high school trash to begin with, and when her parents refuse to get her cha-cha heels for Christmas she stomps out of the house, gets pregnant, and takes to a life of crime that ranges from rolling drunks to the occasional spot of house-breaking. She eventually fetches up with Donald and Donna Dasher (David Lochary and Mary Vivian Pierce), who run a beauty parlor ... Read More
Rating: - it's a terrible play, but it makes a wonderful rehearsal
Female Trouble was indeed a film made by John Waters before he cared before what people thought of him. It shows. The simple, cheesy sets look like they may have been stolen--from the city dump, that is; and the script isn't all that hot, either. What does save this movie to some degree is the rather good acting. For example, I like that Divine clearly worked so hard to make his characters (he plays two roles) larger than life and completely over the top.
The action begins when Dawn Davenport (Divine) doesn't get cha cha heels for Christmas. Naturally (ahem), this sparks a violent protest from Dawn and she runs away from home only to be taken advantage of by a lowlife dude named Earl Peterson (also played by Divine). Dawn gets pregnant; and when Earl won't help support the child Dawn works in a diner and even adds on to that income by being a woman of the night. All through her life, Dawn's closest friends ... Read More
Rating: - One of the Best Movies Ever Made
Female Trouble is quite honestly one of the finest examples of film making ever made. I would rank it at the absolute top of it's genre. Without John Water's breaking the mold, the humor of Sex and The City, Ab Fab, and everything that has follwed would not have been. A pin point perfect commentary on true-crime fascination and celebrity obsession decades before fame craving, talentless Lindsey, Britney and Paris took the stage.
Rating: - FANTASTIC movie...
I've been meaning to purchase this DVD for a while now but never got around to it. Once I saw it on Amazon, I was able to purchase and have it at home within a week and a half.
The movie is absolutely hysterical and everything that is John Waters. Definately one of my all-time favorite movies but not for the faint of heart. If you can stand grotesque humor...this movie is for you!
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