Female Trouble (1974) is a American comedy film written, produced, and directed by John Waters starring Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole, Edith Massey, Michael Potter, Cookie Mueller, and Susan Walsh.
The film is dedicated to Manson Family member Charles "Tex" Watson. Waters' prison visits to Watson inspired the "crime is beauty" theme of the film, and Waters includes a wooden toy helicopter that Watson made for him in the fi...
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Female Trouble (1974) is a American comedy film written, produced, and directed by John Waters starring Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole, Edith Massey, Michael Potter, Cookie Mueller, and Susan Walsh.
The film is dedicated to Manson Family member Charles "Tex" Watson. Waters' prison visits to Watson inspired the "crime is beauty" theme of the film, and Waters includes a wooden toy helicopter that Watson made for him in the film's opening credits.
1960 Baltimore. Juvenile delinquent Dawn Davenport (Divine), a regular troublemaker at her all girls school, receives a failing Geography grade and a sentence of writing lines for fighting, lying, cheating, and eating in class.
On Christmas morning, Dawn fails to get the cha-cha heel shoes she wants for Christmas. After breaking into a violent rage and pushing her mother into the Christmas tree, Dawn runs away from home and, while hitchhiking, gets picked up by Earl Peterson (also Divine), a fat man driving an Edsel...
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