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Female Trouble (1974)

Comedy | 89 minutes
3,32 44 votes

Genre: Comedy / Crime

Duration: 89 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: John Waters

Stars: Divine, Mary Vivian Pearce and Mink Stole

IMDb score: 7,1 (11.575)

Releasedate: 11 October 1974

Female Trouble plot

"Nice girls don't wear cha-cha heels."

A satire on American society, in which 'dying to become famous' predominates. Transvestite Divine not only plays Dawn, the woman who wants to make a career, but also Earl, the man who rapes her.

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mrklm

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The rise and fall of Dawn Davenport [Divine], who as a teenager is so convinced of her own beauty and talent that she fearlessly indulges in exhibitionism. But it makes her vulnerable to the influence of people who abuse her - in different ways - and ultimately destroy her life. Indeed, this is a story with a moral, but with the enormous wink that makes John Waters' work so unique. Mink Stole of course makes an appearance, this time as Dawn's daughter, and the brilliant Edith Massey once again profiles herself as the queen of bad taste. Lots of sex, lots of nudity (male and female) and more of that kind of wonderful disgustingness are the order of the day. Enjoy Divine as a GoGo girl, Divine's bride dress, a half-naked Edith Massey, the same Edith Massey in a way too tight SM costume and especially remember this wisdom: "If they're smart, they're queer. If they're stupid, their straight!”

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Ebenezer Scrooge

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It's not all kitsch and colors and nonsense that John Waters has going for him, there really is a deep story in it.
Parents of Dawn Davenport (Divine) are philistine typical 50s people with a rebellious daughter, which results in a hilarious Christmas scene: Dawn does not get the gift she asked for: cha-cha shoes, and loses her senses and the Christmas tree destroys it. must pay for it. Her father: "Nice girls don't wear cha-cha heels!"
Dawn herself craves fame and attention. Her daughter Taffy, born from rape, is not completely mentally healthy and at one point joins Hare Krishna. Dawn: "If I see you dancing at the station I'm going to strangle you!" So every generation opposes the previous one.
Divine on the trampoline hahaha...
Also very funny: at the beginning of the film Dawn is still at school ("Fuck homework!") and she is punished for secretly eating a sandwich in class, it is all still very high school, but at the end she sits on an electric chair and gets electrocuted hahah... that's how fast things can move in America.
I never knew that Baltimore was once the capital of America, sometime in the eighteenth century, learned something new. It's just a shame that the city, apparently one of the ugliest cities in America, is not shown much. It is mainly indoors. But during the few few moments when that did happen, I was enjoying it again: how ugly and shabby it all looked at the time.

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