Pink Flamingos
25th Anniversary DVD cover
Directed by	John Waters
Starring	Divine David Lochary Mary Vivian Pearce Mink Stole
Distributed by	New Line Cinema/Fine Line Features
Release date(s)	March 12, 1972
Running time	93 min
Language	English
Budget	$12,000
IMDb profile

Pink Flamingos is a 1972 film directed by John Waters. It made an underground star of the flamboyant and obese female impersonator Divine. The independent film also stars David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole, Danny Mills, Channing Wilroy, Cookie Mueller, Paul Swift, and Edith Massey. Produced on a budget of only $12,000, it was shot on weekends in the vicinity of Baltimore, Maryland. Since its release it has had a rather large cult following, and is one of John Waters' most famous films. Image File history File links Pink_Flamingos_DVD.jpg Summary DVD cover for John Waters 1972 cult classic film Pink Flamingos. ... John Waters at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. ... Divine with dogs Harris Glenn Milstead (October 19, 1945 – March 7, 1988) was best known for his drag persona, Divine. ... David Lochary (August 21, 1944 - July 29, 1977) was one of the regular actors in early films of the controversial trash film director John Waters. ... Mary Vivian Pearce is the childhood best friend of filmmaker John Waters and has appeared as an actress in nearly every movie he has made. ... Mink Stole was born Nancy Stoll in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1947. ... New Line Cinema logo New Line Cinema, founded in 1967, is one of the major American film studios. ... Fine Line Features was the speciality films division of New Line Cinema. ... March 12 is the 71st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (72nd in leap years). ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... Film is a term that encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as the field in general. ... John Waters at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. ... Drag queens are performers - usually gay men, sometimes transgendered women - who dress in drag, clothing associated with the female gender, usually highly exaggerated versions thereof. ... Divine with dogs Harris Glenn Milstead (October 19, 1945 – March 7, 1988) was best known for his drag persona, Divine. ... David Lochary (August 21, 1944 - July 29, 1977) was one of the regular actors in early films of the controversial trash film director John Waters. ... Mary Vivian Pearce is the childhood best friend of filmmaker John Waters and has appeared as an actress in nearly every movie he has made. ... Mink Stole was born Nancy Stoll in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1947. ... Danny Mills was a small scale American actor known for his role in the popular cult classic Pink Flamingos, directed by John Waters. ... Cookie Mueller (born August 1, 1949 in Baltimore, Maryland) was a U.S. actress and writer who featured in many of filmmaker John Waters early films including Multiple Maniacs, Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble and Desperate Living. ... Edith Massey Edith Massey (May 25, 1918 - October 24, 1984) was an American actress. ... Nickname: Monument City, Charm City, Mob Town, B-more, Balmerr,Bodymore, Murderland Motto: The Greatest City in America (formerly The City That Reads; Get In On It is not the citys motto, but rather the advertising slogan of the Baltimore Area Convention and Visitors Association; BELIEVE is not the... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

The film came in at number 29, on the list of 50 Films to See Before You Die, on a show in the United Kingdom. 50 Films to See Before You Die was a programme shown on Channel 4 on Saturday 22 July 2006, to celebrate the relaunch of Film4 as a free-to-air channel available to digital terrestrial homes in the United Kingdom. ...

Plot Summary

Divine lives under the pseudonym "Babs Johnson" with her egg-loving mother, Mama Edie, delinquent son Crackers, and Cotton, a like-minded companion whose simple pleasure is voyeurism. They reside in a mobile home (in front of which can be found a pair of pink, plastic flamingos, accounting for the film's title) on Philpot Road in Phoenix, Maryland, a suburb of Baltimore (John Waters' hometown). After finding that Divine had been named "the filthiest person in the world" by a paper, a rival family, the Marbles, set out to destroy the tight-knit family but come unstuck in the process. The Marbles own an "adoption clinic," which is actually a black market baby ring. They kidnap young women, artificially inseminate them with sperm from their manservant and sell their babies to lesbian couples. The proceeds are used to finance a network of dealers selling heroin in inner-city elementary schools. Voyeurism is a practice in which an individual derives sexual pleasure from observing other people. ... Phoenix is an unincorporated community located in Baltimore County in the State of Maryland in the United States of America. ... Nickname: Monument City, Charm City, Mob Town, B-more, Balmerr,Bodymore, Murderland Motto: The Greatest City in America (formerly The City That Reads; Get In On It is not the citys motto, but rather the advertising slogan of the Baltimore Area Convention and Visitors Association; BELIEVE is not the...

Notes

• Some of the film's more shocking scenes include a sex scene involving a live chicken (which was killed in the process and subsequently eaten), Divine stealing meat by hiding it in her "private oven" (i.e. between her legs, under her dress), Divine performing oral sex on her son, Divine urinating in public, a musical scene with a fully exposed gesticulating anus, and an infamous finale in which Divine completely chews up and swallows actual dog feces.

The infamous final scene of Divine eating dog feces.

• The film's narrative does not bear up under close scrutiny (a package is mailed and delivered in the same afternoon) and there are scenes which are hard to watch but, according to interviews, this was exactly what Waters intended. Waters himself called the film an "exercise in poor taste." Many viewers, in fact, watch Pink Flamingos in order to be shocked.

• In 1997 the film was re-released, with an improved stereo soundtrack (which, unlike the original, was made available to the general public, on compact disc), and after the end of the original movie the new version contained a brief video commentary by Waters, plus a few scenes cut from the original release. The re-release was rated NC-17 by the Motion Picture Association of America.

• The Funday Pawpet Show holds what is called the "Pink Flamingo Challenge," in which the ending to the movie is played to the audience while they eat a (preferably chocolate) confection. Videos of the show are forbidden from showing the movie clip, only the reaction of the audience.

• People watching it in the theater received free "Pink Phlegmingo" barf bags.

• The film was banned in Australia, Canada and Norway.

• John Waters wrote a sequel (Flamingos Forever) which was never filmed Due to the deaths of Divine and Edith Massey. The script is available as part of the book "Trash Trio."

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See also

• Cult film
• Midnight movies

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External links

• IMDb entry on Pink Flamingos
• Production notes detailing the making of the film