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Female Trouble
USA 1974
produced by John Waters for Dreamland
directed by John Waters
starring Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole, Edith Massey, Cookie Mueller, Susan Walsh, Michael Potter, Ed Peranio, Paul Swift, George Figgs, Susan Lowe, George Hulse, Margie Skidmore, Berenica Cipcus, Betty Woods, Roland Hertz, Ramsey McClean, Henry Bederski, Hilary Taylor, Cindy Chosky, Laurel Douglas, Mark Lazarus, Anne Figgs, Sally Albaugh, Lynn Russo, Bob Willis, Valerie Stafford, Bob Adams, Channing Wilroy, Al Strapelli, Seymour Avigdor, Christine Mason, Mumme, Pat Moran, Marina Melin, Elizabeth Coffey, George Stover
written by John Waters
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Dawn (Divine) was a problem child from early on, to the point where she
ran away from home at an early age. It's not long before she falls victim
to rape (with the rapist also played by Divine) and has a baby, Taffy. Taffy
(played as a child by Hilary Taylor, as a teen by Mink Stole) is a trouble
child of her own though, while Dawn is desparately trying to make ends
meet as waitress, stripper, prostitute ... until she seemingly falls into
luck when she becomes a client of the most exclusive hair salon in town
and marries one of the salon's hairdressers, Gator (Michael Potter). Gator
though has made a habit out of cheating on her, which eventually leads to
their break-up - which in turn gets Dawn on good terms with the beauty
salon's owners, the Dashers (David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce), who soon
make her their "crime model", pushing her to more and more
extreme criminal behaviour - and this model career isn't even terminated
when Dawn gets acid thrown into her face by Gator's mother (Edith Massey),
scarring her for life. Ultimately, the Dashers drive Dawn to murdering her
own daughter and shooting into the audience during her one-woman stage
show - crimes that don't go unpunished ... Sure, Female
Trouble is unsubtle, it's loud, it's gross, its humour is mostly
blunt, and it's certainly lacking in good taste or political correctness -
but it's most certainly a fun parody of the "TV movie of the
week" of the "true story" variety, taking that genre's
tropes and pushing them all over-the-top and then some for a bizarre and
sometimes grotesque tale that's almost impossible to leave one
indifferent. Sure, not everybody will find this movie enjoyable for its
shrillness, but if one goes into this with an open mind, one almost
certainly will find many things to laugh about here.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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