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Female Trouble
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- 67 feature instances
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| Female Trouble | type |
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| Female Trouble | label |
Female Trouble | |
| Female Trouble | page |
FemaleTrouble | |
| Female Trouble | comment |
Brought to you by the same person who brought you Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble is a 1974 dark comedy film, starring Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole, Edith Massey, Michael Potter, Cookie Mueller, and Susan Walsh.A parody of the juvenile delinquent films popular in the 1950s and 1960s, it tells the story of Dawn Davenport, from her youth back in the 1960s to her increasingly bizarre and violent life of crime after running away from home. | |
| Female Trouble | fetched |
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| Female Trouble | parsed |
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| Female Trouble | isPartOf |
DBTropes | |
| Female Trouble / int_143939c1 | type |
Trailers Always Spoil | |
| Female Trouble / int_143939c1 | comment |
Trailers Always Spoil: The trailer blatantly shows one of the movie's final scenes, which is Dawn being escorted to the electric chair. | |
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| Female Trouble / int_173909 | type |
Brainwashed and Crazy | |
| Female Trouble / int_173909 | comment |
Brainwashed and Crazy: The Dashers use Dawn for their own sick experiment to warp her mind, making her believe her scarring makes her only more beautiful and that crime is glamorous. | |
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| Female Trouble / int_1bfe5406 | type |
Masochist's Meal | |
| Female Trouble / int_1bfe5406 | comment |
Masochist's Meal: At one point, the Dashers serve Dawn little mascara brushes on a plate and she actually eats one. | |
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| Female Trouble / int_222dc873 | type |
Black Comedy | |
| Female Trouble / int_222dc873 | comment |
Black Comedy: The characters are all massive jerks and do unspeakably terrible things, but that's what makes it funny. | |
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| Female Trouble / int_27c09b00 | type |
Camp Straight | |
| Female Trouble / int_27c09b00 | comment |
Camp Straight: Subverted. Gator for the most part is the least campy of all the characters despite being a hairdresser himself, but he is straight as he claims to be. Donald Dasher, who is married to Donna. | |
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| Female Trouble / int_35a858b3 | type |
Cluster F-Bomb | |
| Female Trouble / int_35a858b3 | comment |
Cluster F-Bomb: After not getting her cha-cha heels, Dawn screams at her parents, "I hate you, fuck you! Fuck you both you awful people!" | |
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| Female Trouble / int_3618ebb9 | type |
TheSixties | |
| Female Trouble / int_3618ebb9 | comment |
The '60s: The film begins in this particular decade, and ends at the year 1970. | |
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| Female Trouble / int_374c339d | type |
I'll Kill You! | |
| Female Trouble / int_374c339d | comment |
I'll Kill You!: Dawn threatens this to her daughter, Taffy when she said she's thinking of joining the Hare Krishna people. Taffy shows up later having joined them, and gets strangled to death by her mother for it. | |
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| Female Trouble / int_382a6399 | type |
The Hero Dies | |
| Female Trouble / int_382a6399 | comment |
The Hero Dies: While Dawn Davenport is not a hero in any light, she is eventually caught and charged with first-degree murder and sentenced to death in the electric chair. | |
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| Female Trouble / int_389b0e | type |
Title Theme Tune | |
| Female Trouble / int_389b0e | comment |
Title Theme Tune: Sung by Divine. | |
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| Female Trouble / int_3cb6468e | type |
Bad Liar | |
| Female Trouble / int_3cb6468e | comment |
Bad Liar: Even though Dawn is a chronic liar as her teacher says, no one ever believes her since she's blatantly refusing to own up at what she was just doing, like eating a sandwich in class. It bites her in the ass during her trial where she spouts a bunch of Cassandra Truth. | |
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| Female Trouble / int_3d455888 | type |
Then Let Me Be Evil | |
| Female Trouble / int_3d455888 | comment |
Then Let Me Be Evil: The Dashers drive Dawn to be this, with her "nightclub act" basically being her pride in being a monster. | |
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Female Trouble / int_3d455888 | |
| Female Trouble / int_430e15e1 | type |
Stripperific | |
| Female Trouble / int_430e15e1 | comment |
Stripperific: A few revealing outfits are seen, but the most notorious of all would have to be Ida's leather get up which even included Vapor Wear. In any case, none of them are as titillating as they look. | |
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| Female Trouble / int_47fea76b | type |
Butt-Monkey | |
| Female Trouble / int_47fea76b | comment |
Butt-Monkey: Aunt Ida of the dark comedic variant, depending on your tastes. First, she witnesses Gator get married to Dawn sobbing as if she's attending a funeral, sparks a feud with her, kidnapped to be caged like a bird (along with being dressed like one in the form of a feathered dress) in her neighbor's apartment, and the icing on the cake, gets her hand chopped off by Dawn. | |
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| Female Trouble / int_4c6e3b05 | type |
Uncanny Valley Makeup | |
| Female Trouble / int_4c6e3b05 | comment |
Uncanny Valley Makeup: Dawn Davenport (as per usual due to the actor portraying her) even before her face was disfigured. | |
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| Female Trouble / int_4db42cf3 | type |
Male Frontal Nudity | |
| Female Trouble / int_4db42cf3 | comment |
Male Frontal Nudity: Gator lets his dick hang out when he invites Taffy to suck it. | |
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| Female Trouble / int_5037b961 | type |
Et Tu, Brute? | |
| Female Trouble / int_5037b961 | comment |
Et Tu, Brute?: Dawn is noticeably upset when Donna chose not to defend her when she's invited to speak at the stand, and instead betrays Dawn rather than admit her involvement in the crime to save her own skin. Donald does the same. | |
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| Female Trouble / int_508d91a2 | type |
Pre-Mortem One-Liner | |
| Female Trouble / int_508d91a2 | comment |
Pre-Mortem One-Liner: While Dawn doesn't die, it's still as effective. | |
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| Female Trouble / int_51300dbf | type |
Fat Bastard | |
| Female Trouble / int_51300dbf | comment |
Fat Bastard: Dawn Davenport. Also, Earl Peterson, Taffy's father. | |
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| Female Trouble / int_567e7c4d | type |
Wounded Gazelle Gambit | |
| Female Trouble / int_567e7c4d | comment |
Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Donna and Donald Dasher claim that they are upright citizens who are caught in the crossfire then go on to recall how they were actually terrified of Dawn and at the atrocities she committed. Unfortunately for Dawn, the jury believes them. | |
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| Female Trouble / int_5abc8612 | type |
Unholy Matrimony | |
| Female Trouble / int_5abc8612 | comment |
Unholy Matrimony: The Dashers. | |
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| Female Trouble / int_5fcedca | type |
Big Eater | |
| Female Trouble / int_5fcedca | comment |
Big Eater: Dawn eats hero sandwiches in class. | |
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| Female Trouble / int_606244c2 | type |
Parental Incest | |
| Female Trouble / int_606244c2 | comment |
Parental Incest: Gator, who is her step-father, invites Taffy to suck his cock. It's particularly icky in that Taffy is supposed to be 14. | |
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| Female Trouble / int_6627695f | type |
Author Appeal | |
| Female Trouble / int_6627695f | comment |
Author Appeal: Baltimore and beehive hairdos? Check. | |
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| Female Trouble / int_6654b17b | type |
Facial Horror | |
| Female Trouble / int_6654b17b | comment |
Facial Horror: Dawn's scars from the acid attack is proudly flaunted by herself after friends discourage her from getting corrective cosmetic surgery. | |
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| Female Trouble / int_66c725b6 | type |
Inconsistent Spelling | |
| Female Trouble / int_66c725b6 | comment |
Inconsistent Spelling: Chicklette/Chiclette/Chiclet/Chicklet's name seems to have no official spelling since even looking at The Other Wiki and the credits just adds to the confusion. Gator/Gater is a much milder case in comparison. | |
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| Female Trouble / int_69ff3fba | type |
Beehive Hairdo | |
| Female Trouble / int_69ff3fba | comment |
Beehive Hairdo: Being a John Waters film made in the early 1970s but set in The '60s, big hair is still in full swing. They're mostly bouffants rather than actual Beehives, but still. | |
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| Female Trouble / int_727a65e0 | type |
Gaslighting | |
| Female Trouble / int_727a65e0 | comment |
Gaslighting: The Dashers convince Dawn that "crime is beauty", and that her grotesque wounds are basically a glamorous makeover. She's put over the edge so much, by the time she's in the electric chair, she's crowing about how she's getting an "award". | |
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| Female Trouble / int_7d34f23a | type |
Reckless Gun Usage | |
| Female Trouble / int_7d34f23a | comment |
Reckless Gun Usage: Dawn's nightclub act eventually culminates in her shooting at the audience. The police who arrived moments later also start shooting into the panicking crowd, killing a few people as well. | |
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| Female Trouble / int_7f2427a6 | type |
Dawson Casting | |
| Female Trouble / int_7f2427a6 | comment |
Dawson Casting: Invoked and Lampshaded by Dawn, who tells Taffy (played by Mink Stole who was well into her twenties) that for a 14 year old, she doesn't look so good. | |
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| Female Trouble / int_85557b38 | type |
Reality Is Unrealistic | |
| Female Trouble / int_85557b38 | comment |
Reality Is Unrealistic: That is a real umbilical cord Dawn is chomping through, folks. | |
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| Female Trouble / int_863fa679 | type |
What Happened to the Mouse? | |
| Female Trouble / int_863fa679 | comment |
What Happened to the Mouse?: Chiclet and Concetta, Dawn's school friends and later, partners-in-crime, are last seen fleeing for their lives when Dawn began shooting at the audience while on stage. After that, they disappear completely and don't even appear in court. They were mentioned during Dawn's speech when she's about to be electrocuted though, saying that they "should be with [her]..." Also Vikki, the receptionist at the salon, doesn't appear again after sending Dawn to the Dasher's office. | |
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| Female Trouble / int_86ee8070 | type |
World of Ham | |
| Female Trouble / int_86ee8070 | comment |
World of Ham: Everyone overacts their roles, including incidental characters like the girl who rats out Dawn Davenport for eating in class. | |
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| Female Trouble / int_890d4ef2 | type |
Humiliation Conga | |
| Female Trouble / int_890d4ef2 | comment |
Humiliation Conga: The film is one long one for Dawn, though a lot of it is karmic. The Dashers kidnap Ida, keeping her caged in Dawn's home as a gift and encourage Dawn to chop off her hand. | |
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| Female Trouble / int_898ff050 | type |
Villain Protagonist | |
| Female Trouble / int_898ff050 | comment |
Villain Protagonist: Dawn Davenport. Also includes villain side characters like her friends Chiclet and Concetta, the Dashers, Aunt Ida, etc. | |
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| Female Trouble / int_8b4f491c | type |
Villainy-Free Villain | |
| Female Trouble / int_8b4f491c | comment |
Villainy-Free Villain: Aunt Ida, kind of. She may be a fat, crazy old lady with a very, ahem, unique taste in fashion who has some strange preference to queers over heterosexuals, but isn't that much of a threat except becoming Dawn's arch-nemesis after Gator decided to marry her. The worst she's done would be throwing acid on Dawn's face (after Gator ran away, pinning the blame on her) and conspiring with the Dashers to lie about who kidnapped and imprisoned her. | |
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| Female Trouble / int_90e31482 | type |
Laser-Guided Karma | |
| Female Trouble / int_90e31482 | comment |
Laser-Guided Karma: In a twist of irony, the jury believes Ida and the Dashers' claims about the other crimes Dawn herself did not commit (among other things), like kidnapping Ida and putting her in a cage, splashing acid on her face, injecting herself with beauty treatment drugs, and setting the nightclub act where the shoot out eventually occurs—this was all the Dashers' doing. Aunt Ida's only crime was throwing acid on Dawn. Dawn calls them out on their lies but after everything that had happened because of her, no one in the right mind would listen to her now, let alone believe her. Adding to the fact that she's a Bad Liar just drives the point further. | |
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| Female Trouble / int_957e5fc2 | type |
Villainous Breakdown | |
| Female Trouble / int_957e5fc2 | comment |
Villainous Breakdown: After killing her own daughter backstage, Dawn's descent into madness finally begins when she performs her nightclub act and shoots at the audience, killing a few people. | |
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| Female Trouble / int_9a0870ae | type |
Screw Yourself | |
| Female Trouble / int_9a0870ae | comment |
Screw Yourself: Achieved via Acting for Two from Divine, who plays both Dawn and Earl, the man who picked her up hitchhiking and had sex with Dawn on Christmas morning, getting her pregnant. He also tells her to "Go fuck yourself!" when she asked him for money, possibly alluding to that piece of trivia. | |
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| Female Trouble / int_9b5a308c | type |
Crocodile Tears | |
| Female Trouble / int_9b5a308c | comment |
Crocodile Tears: Dawn accuses Taffy later in the film by telling her not to get any crocodile tears on her furniture. | |
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| Female Trouble / int_9d12bbc1 | type |
Foreshadowing | |
| Female Trouble / int_9d12bbc1 | comment |
Foreshadowing: In one scene, the Dashers are looking at the photographs they took of Dawn and note how "the police will love them". Guess what they did at court when Dawn was arrested. The main character being sentenced to death by electrocution is already mentioned in the movie's Title Theme Tune's lyrics. | |
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| Female Trouble / int_9d6f3607 | type |
Fag Hag | |
| Female Trouble / int_9d6f3607 | comment |
Fag Hag: Aunt Ida, to the point of rebuking heterosexuals and heterosexuality in general. | |
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| Female Trouble / int_a70223 | type |
Karma Houdini | |
| Female Trouble / int_a70223 | comment |
Karma Houdini: Donna and Donald Dasher manage to get away with their involvement in Dawn's tragic nightclub act after claiming to the court they were just caught in the rampage. | |
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Abusive Parents | |
| Female Trouble / int_b11ac9f5 | comment |
Abusive Parents: Dawn is this to Taffy. Other than beating her, she couldn't even bother to give her daughter a normal life like go to school or have friends. | |
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Coming of Age Story | |
| Female Trouble / int_b1e8a3b3 | comment |
Coming of Age Story: In a twisted sort of way. Dawn first starts off as a juvenile delinquent back in school, and after running away from home and giving birth to her daughter, she gets worse from there. | |
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| Female Trouble / int_b352e864 | type |
Sexless Marriage | |
| Female Trouble / int_b352e864 | comment |
Sexless Marriage: It's heavily implied with the Dashers since both think sex is a violation of the human spirit and would never be caught in any of those ludicrous positions. | |
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Too Dumb to Live | |
| Female Trouble / int_b58b4e3c | comment |
Too Dumb to Live: Taffy should've known better than to show up in front of Dawn after having joined the Hare Krishna movement and is still stubborn as ever after her mother's warning. You can see what happens from there. | |
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Odessa Steps | |
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Odessa Steps: The film parodies this with the nightclub act going wrong, particularly when the police arrive and they began shooting at people. It even focused on a man having been shot through his glasses. | |
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Berserk Button | |
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Berserk Button: Do not jump rope within ten feet of Dawn Davenport. | |
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Alliterative Name: Dawn Davenport, Donna and Donald Dasher. | |
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Writing Lines: As a teen, Dawn eats a meatball sandwich in class and, when a student tattles on her, the teacher makes her write "I will not eat in class" fifty times on the chalkboard. | |
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Hook Hand | |
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Hook Hand: Taffy gives Aunt Ida one after Dawn chopped her hand off and kept her in the home as a "pet" for her daughter. | |
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Fan Disservice | |
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Fan Disservice: Ida loves her leather dresses. Dawn as a very sweaty stripper. | |
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Good Is Boring | |
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Good Is Boring: The reason Aunt Ida tells Gator to "go nelly" is that she's worried he'll get a 9-to-5 job, be Happily Married and have children, a "sick and boring life." | |
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Spiritual Antithesis | |
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Spiritual Antithesis: The Dashers and Dawn both view Taffy's turn to Hare Krishna as this to their brand of beauty. | |
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Spoiled Brat | |
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Spoiled Brat: Dawn Davenport, particularly at the beginning of the movie. The whole reason she destroys Christmas presents, attacks her parents, runs away from home, and goes on a life of violent crime over the course of the movie is all because... her parents didn't get her black Cha-cha heels for Christmas. | |
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CloudCuckooLander | |
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Cloud Cuckoolander: Taffy Davenport. Also, Aunt Ida. | |
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Camp | |
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Camp: John Waters' bread-and-butter is on display here, particularly with the character's performances, over-the-top costumes, and ridiculous plot. | |
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Gorn | |
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Gorn: Aunt Ida throws acid on Dawn's face, horribly disfiguring her and the effects of it were shown seconds later. Her grotesque scars last throughout the film. | |
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Younger Than They Look | |
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Younger Than They Look: Lampshaded. Dawson Casting aside, Dawn says that for fourteen, Taffy doesn't look so good because of being a brat all her life. | |
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Sissy Villain | |
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Sissy Villain: Donna and Donald Dasher, especially the latter. | |
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Ham-to-Ham Combat: Every scene with Dawn and Taffy Davenport. They seem to be in a neverending contest in who can steal the scene better. | |
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A Minor Kidroduction | |
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A Minor Kidroduction: The film starts with Dawn Davenport's youth back in 1960, if you look past the true actors' ages when they're playing what seems to be high-school students. | |
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Redemption Equals Death | |
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Redemption Equals Death: Ostensibly. The last thing Taffy did before being killed by her own mother was free Ida from her cage so she can go and tell the police where Dawn was then went to the nightclub to try and convince her mother to come with her before it's too late. | |
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Explicit Content | |
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Explicit Content: Not as much as Pink Flamingos, but just as the same. There are at least two close-up shots of male genitalia and hardcore sex is shown, enough for the DVD release to get an NC-17 rating. | |
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Sensory Overload: Taffy deliberately annoys Dawn by reciting the same words/tune over and over again even after being told not to. | |
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