Pink Flamingos

Name: Pink Flamingos
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Released: March 17, 1972
Duration: 93 min
Rating: 47
Cast: Channing Wilroy, Cookie Mueller, Danny Mills, David Lochary, Divine

1972

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Saliva Films | Release Date: March 17, 1972 | X

Starring: Channing Wilroy, Cookie Mueller, Danny Mills, David Lochary, Divine, Edith Massey, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole, Paul Swift, Susan Walsh

Summary: Notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as "The Filthiest Person Alive".

Director: John Waters

Genre(s): Comedy, Crime

Rating: X

Runtime: 93 min

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Owen Gleiberman

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. Read full review

Adam Lowes

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. Read full review

Empire Christopher Hemblade

John Waters was way ahead of his time with this corruscating '70s vision of small-town Americana. Read full review

Marc Savlov

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. Read full review

Mark Chalon Smith

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. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

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. Read full review

Roger Ebert

John Waters' Pink Flamingos has been restored for its 25th anniversary revival, and with any luck at all that means I won't have to see it again for another 25 years. If I haven't retired by then, I will. Read full review

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codyz

Aug 20, 2023

Movie is campy, trashy, amateurish, stupid, and poorly shot in 16mm. It has shockingly graphic scenes, some of which are downright offensive. Poor acting grates in a lot of unnecessarily long boring scenes. For its' time, the movie probably set a record for most cussing.

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Panchogul

Nov 11, 2020

Cruda, grotesca, ordinaria e innecesariamente vulgar, he visto películas con todas las características anteriores pero esta definitivamente no tiene por donde apreciarse, de pésimo gusto y no tiene ningún valor ni mérito cinematográfico.

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DariusTowers

Feb 11, 2023

Esto no es cine, representa las ideas de una persona que está enferma. No tiene razón de ser y los personajes son uno peor que otro.

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sdumers

Aug 10, 2022

The filthiest and unholy archetype of what bad entertainment is!! And many Christians call South Park lewd and profane!!!

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