The Prince Charles Cinema

Funeral Parade Presents 'Female Trouble'

  • 1974
  • 97mins
  • USA
  • (18)
  • Comedy/Crime
Directed by John Waters Starring Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce

Funeral Parade is proud to present Female Trouble, John Waters’ sleazy and sickening midnight movie classic – just in time for Christmas!

Dawn Davenport (Divine) was like any other delinquent high schooler until Christmas morning, 1960. Her parents didn’t buy her the cha-cha heels she asked for, so she decides to become a teenage runaway, but not before she smashes her presents and leaves her mother pinned under the Christmas tree. Thus begins Dawn’s life of mayhem, madness, and make-up, as she and her beautician benefactors Donald and Donna Dasher (David Lochary and Mary Vivien Pearce) set out to prove that “crime and beauty are the same.” But how will Dawn find the time to be a good mother to her dearest daughter Taffy (Mink Stole)? Hilarious and horrifying in equal measure, Waters’ follow-up to Pink Flamingos is bad taste at its best.

Monday 1st December