Pink Flamingos (1972)
Pink Flamingos (1972)
Plot.
Where to Watch.
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Cast & Crew.
Divine
Divine / Babs Johnson
David Lochary
Raymond Marble / Hairstylist
Mary Vivian Pearce
Cotton
Mink Stole
Connie Marble / Hairstylist
Danny Mills
Crackers
Edith Massey
Edie
Channing Wilroy
Channing
Cookie Mueller
Cookie
Paul Swift
The Egg Man
Susan Walsh
Suzie
Linda Olgeirson
Linda
Pat Moran
Patty Hitler (Party Guest In Nazi Uniform) / Assistant Director
Jack Walsh
Party Guest
Bob Skidmore
Delivery Boy
Pat Lefaiver
Etta
Jackie Sidel
Merle
Julie Munshauer
Party Guest
Steve Yeager
Nat Curzan from 'The Tattler'
Nancy Crystal
Sandy Sandstone
George Figgs
Bongo Player
John Oden
Onlooker
George Stoll
Onlooker
David Gluck
Onlooker
Elizabeth Coffey
Chick with a Dick
Margie Donnelly
Onlooker
Margie Skidmore
Brunette in Park
Berenica Cipcus
Blonde in Park
Iris Burman
Party Guest
Randy Burman
Man at Deli with Hot Dog Pack / Party Guest / Title Designer
Don Blumberg
Party Guest
Vincent Peranio
Musician at Party / Set Decoration / Art Direction / Production Design / Set Designer / Production Assistant / Productio...
Bob Adams
Police Officer Who Gets Shot / Production Assistant
Mark Lazarus
Officer
David Lehman
Party Guest
Catriona Maloney
Party Guest
Richard Keller
Cab Driver
Charlie Swope
Party Guest
Barry Golome
Party Guest / Production Assistant
Ed Peranio
Party Guest / Production Assistant
Elia Katz
Army Guy
Steve Waters
Jogger
Billy Davis
Party Guest
Howard Gruber
Party Guest Sniffing Popper
Van Smith
Guest at Party in Drag / Costume Design / Makeup Artist
Chuck Yeaton
Deli Clerk
Laurie Birnbaum
Party Guest
Lenny Taylor
Extra
Trick Grantham
Party Guest
Mark Isherwood
Party Guest
Randy Damm
Party Guest
Alan Reese
Party Guest
Alberta Reese
Party Guest
Cowboy Foulke
Party Guest
David Sanders
Party Guest
Brigette Grey
Party Guest
John Herndon
Party Guest
Ellis Clark
Party Guest
Joe Wilepski
Party Guest
Paul Landis
Party Guest
Lawrence Irvine
Party Guest / Still Photographer
Marina Melin
Basement Slave (uncredited)
Max Mueller
Noodles (uncredited)
John Waters
Mr. J (voice) (uncredited) / Editor / Director / Producer / Director of Photography / Writer
Bill Porter
Sound Recordist
Alan Rose
Title Designer
Brad Ganson
Camera Operator
Media.
Details.
Release DateMarch 17, 1972
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 33m
Budget$12,000
Box Office$6,000,000
Filming LocationsBaltimore, United States
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
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Pink Flamingos is a 1972 American black comedy film by John Waters. It is part of what Waters has labelled the "Trash Trilogy", which also includes Female Trouble (1974) and Desperate Living (1977). The film stars the countercultural drag queen Divine as a criminal living under the name of Babs Johnson, who is proud to be "the filthiest person alive". While living in a trailer with her mother Edie (Edith Massey), son Crackers (Danny Mills), and companion Cotton (Mary Vivian Pearce), Divine is confronted by the Marbles (David Lochary and Mink Stole), a pair of criminals envious of her reputation who try to outdo her in filth. The characters engage in several grotesque, bizarre, and explicitly crude situations, and upon the film's re-release in 1997 it was rated NC-17 by the MPAA "for a wide range of perversions in explicit detail". It was filmed in the vicinity of Baltimore, Maryland, where Waters and most of the cast and crew grew up.
Displaying the tagline "An exercise in poor taste", Pink Flamingos is notorious for its "outrageousness", nudity, profanity, and "pursuit of frivolity, scatology, sensationology [sic] and skewed epistemology". It features a "number of increasingly revolting scenes" that center on exhibitionism, voyeurism, sodomy, masturbation, gluttony, vomiting, rape, incest, murder, animal cruelty, cannibalism, zoophilia, castration, foot fetishism, and concludes, to the accompaniment of "How Much Is That Doggy in the Window?", with Divine's consumption of dog feces β "The real thing!" narrator Waters assures us. The film is considered a preliminary exponent of abject art.
The film, at first semi-clandestine, has received a warm reception from film critics and, despite being banned in several countries, became a cult film in subsequent decades. In 2021, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".