Synopsis
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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Cast
- DivineDivine / Babs Johnson
- David LocharyRaymond Marble
- Mary Vivian PearceCotton
- Mink StoleConnie Marble
- Danny MillsCrackers
- Edith MasseyEdie
- Channing WilroyChanning
- Cookie MuellerCookie
- Paul SwiftThe Egg Man
- Susan WalshSuzie
Recommandations
- 100
Entertainment Weekly
In Pink Flamingos, Waters did something subversive and, in its gross way, quite spectacular: He created his own hell-bent, sick-joke Oz, with Divine as its wicked-witch queen. - 80
Empire
John Waters was way ahead of his time with this corruscating '70s vision of small-town Americana. - 80
CineVue
Pink Flamingos remains a delightfully repugnant cinematic treasure. Watching Divine as she struts her stuff amongst the genuinely dumbfounded residents of downtown Baltimore, perfectly encapsulates with Waters was reaching for with the film. - 75
TV Guide Magazine
The improbable star of this ultra-low budget cinematic gross-out is 300-pound transvestite Divine, whose willingness to do virtually anything in front of the camera, along with an undeniable screen presence, made Pink Flamingos a favorite on the campus and midnight-movie circuits. - 67
The A.V. Club
Almost anyone could dig up and film someone with the ability to lip-synch using his a**hole, but it takes genius to set the scene to Surfin' Bird. - 67
Austin Chronicle
Pink Flamingos is, in its own unique way, the quintessential American Family Film. Not my family, certainly, and probably not yours, but a family nonetheless. So here's to family values. And shock values, too. - 50
Los Angeles Times
One thing you can say for Pink Flamingos, it has a frat party chumminess, even at its most repulsive. In the late '60s and through the '70s, Waters used the same gang of pals for his ensemble, and that created a kind of "let's get down and dirty together" camaraderie. - 20
Time Out
Waters raids de Sade in pursuit of extremes, but the difference between him and Warhol (or that other arch-exponent of extreme disgust, Otto Muehl) is that Waters' grotesquerie is decidedly trivial.
