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Pink Flamingos (1972)

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Reviews Counted: 33

Fresh: 27

Rotten:6

Average Rating: 6.6/10

Runtime: 1 hr 48 mins

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: Baltimore director John Waters's outrageous 1971 debut PINK FLAMINGOS burst onto the filmmaking scene like the ample flesh of its drag-queen star through the seams of a lamé dress. Conceived as a way to garner attention for Waters's... Baltimore director John Waters's outrageous 1971 debut PINK FLAMINGOS burst onto the filmmaking scene like the ample flesh of its drag-queen star through the seams of a lamé dress. Conceived as a way to garner attention for Waters's fledgling career, this paean to bad taste certainly did just that--so much so that decades later, the film still retains the power to shock with its gleeful demolition of every known human taboo. Waters's attempt at making the most vile and offensive movie ever made is aptly mirrored in his characters' competition for the title of "Filthiest Person Alive." Overweight transvestite and Waters muse Divine (aka Glen Milstead) stars as the current record holder, Babs Johnson, who lives in a trailer park with her trashy friend Cotton (Mary Vivian Pearce), incestuous son Crackers (Danny Mills), and mentally-stunted mother Edie (Edith Massey), who spends her time in a playpen and is obsessed with eggs. Vying for Babs's filthy title is evil middle-class couple Raymond (David Lochary) and Connie Marble (Mink Stole), who fund porno shops, sell heroin to grade-schoolers, and run a white-slave trade that involves kidnapping young women, imprisoning them in their dungeon-like basement, raping and impregnating them, and selling their babies to lesbian couples. In between, there's sex with chickens, whistling rectums, actual fellatio, and canine excrement--ensuring not only gross-out comedy par excellence, but a total assault on bourgeois respectability that rivals the comparatively mild critique of UN CHIEN ANDALOU or L'AGE D'OR. Disgusting, hilarious, and utterly fabulous, PINK FLAMINGOS is guerrilla filmmaking at its finest. [More]

Starring: Divine, Edith Massey, Mink Stole, David Lochary

Starring: Divine, Edith Massey, Mink Stole, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Danny Mills, Cookie Mueller, Channing Wilroy

Director: John Waters

Director: John Waters
Screenwriter: John Waters
Producer: John Waters

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Sep 7, 2004

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gag-inducing and breathtaking at the same time.

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People complain about shock cinema and how far it has to go now to penetrate our jaded, desensitized sensibilities. Come meet the grandfather of it all!

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[A] demented comedy that defecates on everything the '60s stood for, and then allows the drag queen in the lead to eat in, right on camera.

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07/23/05
Emanuel Levy
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Still succeeds as an all-out assault on good taste.

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04/09/05
Robin Clifford
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Infamously sick and certainly worth seeing ... but don't expect much.

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01/29/05
Philip Martin
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Gaudy, outrageous...it's John Waters!

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11/01/04
Steve Crum
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The alpha and omega of shock filmmaking.

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09/26/04
Martin Scribbs
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Hard to make an argument based on sheer artistry; impossible to make an argument against outrageous charm and transfixing weirdness.

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06/25/04
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03/17/04
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03/04/04
Mark Palermo
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The film Waters is still trying to top.

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10/23/03
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