
Sleaze queen Divine lives in a caravan with her mad hippie son Crackers and her 250-pound mother Mama Edie, trying to rest quietly on their laurels as 'the filthiest people alive'. But competition is brewing in the form of Connie and Raymond Marble, who sell heroin to schoolchildren and kidnap and impregnate female hitchhikers, then sell the babies to lesbian couples. Finally, they challenge Divine directly, and battle commences.... (Full plot summary below)
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Sleaze queen Divine lives in a caravan with her mad hippie son Crackers and her 250-pound mother Mama Edie, trying to rest quietly on their laurels as 'the filthiest people alive'. But competition is brewing in the form of Connie and Raymond Marble, who sell heroin to schoolchildren and kidnap and impregnate female hitchhikers, then sell the babies to lesbian couples. Finally, they challenge Divine directly, and battle commences.
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| Electric SheepGreg KlymkiwSeeing this movie seemed like having a dream of home, and the world of the movie made me feel like I'd found my true home. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanIn 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. |
| DVD VerdictBill Gibron[A] demented comedy that defecates on everything the '60s stood for, and then allows the drag queen in the lead to eat in, right on camera. |
| Old School ReviewsJohn A. NesbitWaters demonstrates visual talent and entertains |
| Houston ChronicleJeff MillarWaters works best with some restrictions on his license. He's much better as a subversive than he is an anarchist. |
| KPBS.orgBeth AccomandoBut what made Waters unique was the joyous quality of his work, the wicked delight he took in trashy obscenity. |
| Empire MagazineChristopher HembladeJohn Waters was way ahead of his time with this corruscating '70s vision of small-town Americana. |
| Q Network Film DeskJames Kendricka deranged home movie that took the midnight circuit by storm with its trashy excess, low-brow aesthetic, and raunchy delight in whatever perversions Waters could dream up |
| CineVueAdam LowesPink 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. |
| Lessons of DarknessNick SchagerStill succeeds as an all-out assault on good taste. |