Her look likewise gets more and more extreme, particularly after she gets badly disfigured. This is my favorite John Waters movie. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Later, Chicklette and Concetta sit to either side of Dawn on her bed, the arrangement of their bouffanted heads quoting a composition in the film Valley of the Dolls (1967). The extras make it super worth it. Recommended!!! Not for the squeamish....although at least there's no poodle-poo in this one, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 May 2017. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in.
After all, they need some depravity in their lives too! Written by Waters as a vehicle for the biggest player in his Dreamland Productions microstudio, Female Trouble is structured to show off the zaftig actor’s formidable range of comedic and even dramatic talent, as it charts protagonist Dawn Davenport’s arc from bratty suburban adolescent to electrocuted criminal. She's the perfect all-American parent: a great cook and homemaker, a devoted recycler, and a woman who'll literally kill to keep her children happy. My all time favorite John Waters film makes its way to Blu Ray and its never looked better! DIRECTOR-APPROVED DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES, • New 4K digital restoration, supervised by director John Waters, • Audio commentary from 2004 featuring Waters, • New conversation between Waters and critic Michael Musto, • New and archival interviews with cast and crew members Mink Stole, Pat Moran, Vincent Peranio, Susan Lowe, Mary Vivian Pearce, and more, • PLUS: An essay by film critic Ed Halter. This FAQ is empty. Wickedly witty, endlessly quotable with a prescient message about fame/celebrity culture, this new Criterion release of John Waters’ FEMALE TROUBLE is the only one to own, so donate your old DVDs to the less fortunate… I don't know what's going on at Criterion headquarters because first they gave us Multiple Maniacs, and I thought it would be a one-off, but now they go and do Female Trouble, my all-time favorite John Waters movie along with Serial Mom. Divine’s self-rape scene begins as a brutal assault that seamlessly melts into a fit of blubbery passion, as Dawn demands oral pleasure from slobbering Earl. The extras make it super worth it. As Dawn, Divine is on-screen for the majority of the film, and even plays a second role, in macho drag, as Earl Peterson, a snarling dirtbag who rapes and impregnates the teenage Dawn after she runs away from home. Beautiful Hi-Def version of this much beloved cult classic from director John Waters. Shortly before the critically acclaimed success of their off-Broadway show Get on Your Knees, the two comedians stopped by for a few good laughs in our closet. It also has moments where its social commentary is still scarily accurate. This was Water's last film to features his entire original ensemble of actors (Divine, David Lochary, Mink Stole, Mary Vivian Pierce, and Edith Massey) and each has a memorable and hilarious role. There is potential here for some people to hate this movie and never understand why others love it but I suspect that this was always Female Trouble's intended fate.

And the picture quality itself, was good too. This clever aestheticization of budgetary necessity has its roots in the sixties underground movies of Andy Warhol and brothers George and Mike Kuchar, all of whose work inspired Waters to take up filmmaking. A twisted, witty and wonderful early film from John Waters with Divine in, what I think is, her best role. Female Trouble After languishing for decades in John Waters’ attic, never-before-seen footage from the set of Female Trouble has made its way onto our newly released edition of the film. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The film’s condemnation of the family is most heartily articulated through Dawn’s battering of Taffy, at first played by a preteen Hilary Taylor in an outfit mimicking actor Patty McCormack’s in The Bad Seed (1956), and later by an incongruously adult Mink Stole. Notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as "The Filthiest Person Alive". Great extras also! If you appreciate trash-talkin' broads and deeply inappropriate humour, then this is most definitely for you. And not to mention.

My all time favorite John Waters film makes its way to Blu Ray and its never looked better! Peranio constructed Dawn’s residence inside an abandoned, condemned apartment, filling it with garish wallpaper, outdated furniture, and populuxe tchotchkes; we first encounter Dawn here in her living room, sitting on a powder-blue couch, her hair in rollers, eating an enormous doughnut and poring over a lurid gossip magazine.