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Closed Caption; Original uncut full-length version; Commentary by John Waters
Full Product DetailsSide #1 --
1. ...Main Titles [2:21]
2. ...Youth [5:18]
3. ...Cha Cha Heels [2:31]
4. ...Dawn Meets Earl [2:18]
5. ...Pregnant [2:06]
6. ...Career Girl [1:33]
7. ...Early Criminal [4:15]
8. ...Aunt Ida [2:03]
9. ...Lipstick Beauty Salon [4:55]
10. ...Married Life [1:33]
11. ...5 Years Later [7:28]
12. ...Dawn's Big Break [5:14]
13. ...Gator's Goodbye [2:55]
14. ...A Smashing Dinner Party [5:27]
15. ...A New Look for Dawn [4:28]
16. ...Model of the Year [5:35]
17. ...Taffy's Daddy [2:55]
18. ...Show Business [2:13]
19. ...A Painful Homelife [5:03]
20. ...Superstar Nightclub [4:03]
21. ...Dawn's Act [4:57]
22. ...The Trial [9:36]
23. ...Dawn's Big Day [5:09]
24. ...Final Curtain Call [3:28]
A riotously funny bad-taste epic from director John Waters, Baltimore's "Prince of Puke," this sick classic tells the depraved life story of obese criminal Dawn Davenport (Divine), from her bad-girl youth as a go-go dancer on Baltimore's infamous Block to her death in the electric chair. Mink Stole is terrific as Dawn's bratty daughter Taffy, conceived following a romp on a junkyard mattress with a fat derelict in soiled underpants (also played by Divine). Mary Vivian Pearce and David Lochary co-star as crazed owners of a beauty-parlor who are convinced that "crime equals beauty," and they take Dawn under their wings, forcing her to mainline liquid eyeliner to enhance her appeal. Edith Massey steals the film as Dawn's obsessive neighbor, Ida, who wants her nephew to be gay (because heterosexuals lead "sick and boring lives") and throws acid in Dawn's face when she marries him. A hilariously appalling film, Female Trouble is just as disgusting and far funnier than Waters' previous Pink Flamingos, if not as notorious. Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide