Female Trouble (1974)

98 min · Dark Comedy, LGBTQ-related film, comedy film, crime film

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Directors

John Waters

Cast

Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole, Edith Massey, Cookie Mueller, Susan Walsh, Michael Potter

The story

In 1960, delinquent high-school student Dawn Davenport is expelled from the Baltimore school system for bad behavior and is very ungrateful when her parents refuse to buy her the cha-cha heels she wanted for Christmas. In a fit of rage, she smashes the presents and topples the family Christmas tree on her mother, and storms out of the house barely even dressed. Dawn hitchhikes a ride with a repulsive, lecherous man, Earl Peterson, who drives her to a dump where they have sex on a discarded mattress.

Catalogue themes and tags

Beauty Queen, Death Penalty, Elektric Chair, Ermordung, Hairdresser, Homosexuality, Husband Wife Relationship, Marital Neglect, Marriage Crisis, Mutter-Tochter-Beziehung, Parental Alienation Syndrome, Parents Kids Relationship, Problematic Relationship, Rape, Scheidung, schwanger, strange Family, LGBT, Crime Fiction, Crime Comedy, Indie, Gay, Cult, Gay Interest, Drama, Comedy, Gay Themed, Black comedy

Genres

Dark Comedy, LGBTQ-related film, comedy film, crime film

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