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Release Date:
October 1979 (West Germany)
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Tagline:
An exercise in poor taste.
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Plot:
Notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against Connie & Raymond Marble, a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as "The Filthiest Person Alive".
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User Comments:
Outrageously Sick, Disgusting and Grotesque
But Also Funny
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Crew believed to be complete
Additional Details
Also Known As:
John Waters' Pink Flamingos (USA) (complete title)
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Rated NC-17 for a wide range of perversions in explicit detail.
Runtime:
93 min | Australia:106 min (re-release) | UK:104 min (re-release) | USA:108 min (re-release) | Argentina:108 min (re-release)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1
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Trivia:
Filming only took place on weekends;
John Waters raised money during the week.
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Goofs:
Continuity: Throughout the film, the Marbles deliriously talk about their scheme to ruin Divine and seize her title of "Filthiest Person Alive". They refer to the attacks as a series of "phases" - phase one is the sending of the obscene parcel. Phase three is when Connie & Raymond are in the phone booth calling the police about Divine's rambunctious birthday party. But there is no "phase two".
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Quotes:
Cookie:
[
referring to her sexual humiliation with a chicken] You have no idea what I had to go through to get that information!
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Soundtrack:
Pink Champagne
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FAQ
Does Divine really eat dog feces in the film?
Who played the "singing asshole"?
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The filthiest person alive, Divine, is using the codename Babs Johnson and living in a trailer in the woods with her retarded mother Eddie (Edith Massey), who loves eggs; her mad hippie son Crackers (Danny Mills); and her mate Cotton (Mary Vivian Pearce). The envious couple Connie (Mink Stole) and Raymond Marble (David Lochary), who abduct and impregnate female hitchhikers to sell their babies to gay and lesbian couples, using the money to invest in heroin and sell in schools, hire Cookie (Cookie Mueller) to have sex with Crackers and spy Divine to compete for the title of "the filthiest people alive". When the competition begins, Connie and Raymond Marble learn why Divine has this title.
The underground "Pink Flamingos" is outrageously sick, disgusting and grotesque but also funny. John Waters' intention is certainly to shock the audiences and is certainly very well succeeded. The bizarre characters present some of the most scatological and gross scenes I have ever seen, like Divine chewing excrement of dog, or Crackers "singing" with his anus, and there is no limit for the sick mind of John Waters. The viewer has to have empty stomach to see the whole movie. In the Extras of the DVD, John Waters presents deleted scenes, inclusive with the fate of Cookie. The trailer used to promote the film in 1972 is hilarious, since it does not show any scene, but people being interviewed about the movie. My vote is five.
Title (Brazil): "Pink Flamingos"