Pink Flamingos (1974) (25th Anniversary)

Product Details: Pink Flamingos (1974)

Edition:DVD 25th Anniversary
MPAA Rating:R
Release Date:09/07/2004
UPC:794043751622
Directed by:John Waters
Featuring:Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, See all cast

Synopsis: Pink Flamingos (1974)

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...
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.

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User Reviews: Pink Flamingos (1974)

  • Overall:

    Decadence to the fullest extent

    By Yahoo! Shopping User  Jun 6, 2000

    Divine is the anti-celebrity of your wildest dreams. Evil, evil, evil. Don't see this if you can't handle the trashy truth. Drag queens, incest, white trash. You will laugh, you will cry, you will want to die. John Water's lets loose in this farce a...bout white trash America. Pink Flamingo's is the ultimate in trash filth art. See this if you want to laugh. Read more Less

  • Overall:

    A masterpiece of macabre filth

    By Yahoo! Shopping User  Feb 7, 2000

    This is 20th century pop art filth celluloid at its best. It shows how low human nature can go...A must see for those not stuck in suburban sheltered hypocritical America.....A true art statement....
    Only Divine could do such gross things!

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