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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
Waters’s even more confrontational underground pageant of grotesque glamour, delinquency, and deliberately tasteless camp; its anarchic performance style closely matches Female Trouble’s gleeful bad behavior.
02
Why this pick
A ferocious, filthy fairy-tale satire from the same early Waters world, driven by runaway misfits, exaggerated cruelty, and handmade outlaw-movie energy.
03
Why this pick
This raw black-and-white Waters provocation shares Female Trouble’s lo-fi theatricality, criminal misbehavior, abrasive comic cruelty, and fascination with outrageous female monstrosity.
04
Why this pick
A slightly glossier but still venomous Waters melodrama: suburban humiliation, lurid reversals, and Divine’s larger-than-life suffering turn bad taste into a stylized emotional spectacle.
05
Why this pick
A warmer, more polished evolution of Waters’s camp sensibility, with Divine, flamboyant social rebellion, and a loving eye for outsiders who refuse respectable conformity.
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01 / THE STORY
Dawn Davenport, a delinquent high-school student, goes berserk when her parents refuse to buy her the shoes she wants for Christmas because "nice girls don't wear cha-cha heels": she destroys presents, topples a Christmas tree on her mother, and flees the house. Dawn hitchhikes a ride with a lecherous man, Earl Peterson, who drives her to a dump where they have sex on a discarded mattress. Dawn becomes pregnant, but Earl refuses to support her. She gives birth to a daughter, Taffy, a brattish child often beaten and severely punished by her mother. Dawn works various jobs, including stripping and waiting tables, and engages in criminal activities such as burglary and street prostitution with former high-school friends Chiclette and Concetta.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Taffy Davenport
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Dawn Davenport / Earl Peterson
Donna Dasher
