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Female Trouble is a american film of genre Comedy directed by John Waters released in USA on 4 october 1974 with Divine
Female Trouble (1974)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 4 october 1974
Length 1h32
Directed by John Waters
OriginUSA
Themes Films about families, Christmas films, Films about sexuality, Bisexuality-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Rating70%
Female Trouble is a 1974 dark comedy film co-composed, filmed, co-edited, written, produced, and directed by John Waters starring Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole, Edith Massey, Michael Potter, Cookie Mueller, and Susan Walsh.
The film is dedicated to Manson Family member Charles "Tex" Watson. Waters' prison visits to Watson inspired the "crime is beauty" theme of the film and in the film's opening credits, Waters includes a wooden toy helicopter that Watson made for him.
Synopsis
Dawn Davenport, a regular troublemaker at her all-girls school, receives a failing Geography grade and a sentence of writing lines for fighting, lying, cheating, and eating in class.Actors
Divine
(Dawn Davenport / Earl Peterson)
David Lochary
(Donald Dasher)
Mary Vivian Pearce
(Donna Dasher)
Mink Stole
(Taffy Davenport)
Edith Massey
(Ida Nelson)
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