Pink Flamingos


Pink Flamingos is a 1972 American transgressive black comedy exploitation film written, produced, scored, shot, edited, narrated, and directed by John Waters. When the film was initially released, it caused a huge degree of controversy due to the wide range of perverse acts performed in explicit detail. It has since become one of the most notorious films ever made and made an underground star of the flamboyant drag queen actor Divine. The film costars David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole, Danny Mills, Cookie Mueller, and Edith Massey.

Underground criminal Divine lives under the pseudonym Babs Johnson with her mentally ill, eggloving mother Edie, delinquent son Crackers, and traveling companion Cotton. They all live together in a pink trailer on the outskirts of Phoenix, Maryland, in front of which can be found a pair of eponymous plastic pink flamingos. After learning that Divine has been named the filthiest person alive by a tabloid paper, jealous rivals Connie and Raymond Marble set out to destroy her career but come undone in the process.The Marbles run an adoption clinic, which is actually a black market baby ring. They kidnap young women, have them impregnated by their manservant, Channing, and sell the babies to lesbian couples. Channing is seen from behind, but apparently masturbates and ejaculates. The proceeds are used to finance a network of dealers selling heroin in innercity elementary schools. Raymond also gets money by exposing himself with large kielbasa sausages tied to his penis to unsuspecting women in a park and stealing their purses when they flee. The Marbles send a spy named Cookie in the guise of what Crackers thinks is a date. In one of the films most infamous scenes, the two of them have sex while crushing a live chicken between them as Cotton looks on through a window. Cookie then informs the Marbles about Babs real identity, her whereabouts, and her family, as well as information about her upcoming birthday party. ........

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