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Pink Flamingos

Play trailer Poster for Pink Flamingos NC-17,  1997,  1h 33m,  Comedy Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist 83% 47 Reviews Tomatometer 72% 10,000+ Ratings Popcornmeter
83% Tomatometer 47 Reviews 72% Popcornmeter 10,000+ Ratings
A bizarre fat woman (Divine) and her misfit family compete with a Baltimore couple (David Lochary, Mink Stole) to be named the filthiest people alive.
Pink Flamingos

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Critics Consensus

Uproarious and appalling, Pink Flamingos is transgressive camp that proves as entertaining as it does shocking.

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Eric Henderson Slant Magazine Jun 21, 2022
Of course, every battle in their filth war is quite obviously filtered through John Waters’s legendarily up-is-down, wrong-is-right sense of humor. Go to Full Review
Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly Sep 7, 2011
A
Twenty-five years after Pink Flamingos was first unleashed, the film has lost none of its danger, its wit, its psychotic exuberance. Go to Full Review
Variety Staff Variety Jun 30, 2008
One of the most vile, stupid and repulsive films ever made. Go to Full Review
Jason Shawhan Nashville Scene Oct 28, 2022
The myriad horrors that Pink Flamingos offers are a catalog of atrocities played for triumph. Go to Full Review
Rob Gonsalves Rob's Movie Vault Aug 30, 2022
B
Depraved, to be sure, but very funny and consistently subversive; one of the great sick-humor comedies. Go to Full Review
Martin Unsworth Starburst Jul 25, 2022
5/5
By no means is the film for those easily offended (there are moments that push the boundaries of even the most liberal viewer), but there's no denying how much fun it is to spend time with Divine and the Marbles. Go to Full Review
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Draco M Apr 18, 2019 Pink Flamingos features a memorable, charismatic turn from Divine and some amusing lines of dialogue, but for the majority of its runtime it is very difficult to sit through. It's hard to even call it a movie considering its cheap technical aspects, overt sensationalism and terrible acting. It was just an excuse to film the most grotesque scenes possible and literally nothing else. See more
Feb 15, 2019 Bizarre and filthy, but with a few strong one-liners
Finn L Feb 6, 2019 "Kill everyone now! Condone first degree murder! Advocate cannibalism! Eat sh!t! Filth are my politics, filth is my life!" Watched this movie for the first time yesterday in my Film Class. I knew who John Waters is and have been intrigued by him as an artist for years but never really dived into his art. I recommend watching this movie with at least one other person who hasn't seen it. The professor paused the movie after the scene in the chicken house to kind of gauge the classroom. She asked if we wanted to continue and of course I did but I was worried about the rest of the reaction until everyone agreed we liked it. I'm someone who would say colleges are becoming too PC, as a 30 year old who recently went back to college, I was gladly proven wrong. If you can get through this movie without being offended you win. It's a movie trying to offend, so if you react horribly you're just showing everyone else you aren't truly able to separate art from life. See more
Feb 2, 2019 The best comedy movie ever made!
Hermione G Jun 19, 2018 One of the most stupid movies made ever
Poe R Apr 4, 2018 i like dirty movies just as much as anyone, but this isnt even dirty its just disgusting!
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Movie Info

Synopsis A bizarre fat woman (Divine) and her misfit family compete with a Baltimore couple (David Lochary, Mink Stole) to be named the filthiest people alive.
Director
John Waters
Producer
John Waters
Screenwriter
John Waters
Distributor
Fine Line Features, New Line Cinema
Production Co
Dreamland
Rating
NC-17
Genre
Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Apr 11, 1997, Wide
Release Date (DVD)
Sep 7, 2004
Box Office (Gross USA)
$413.8K
Runtime
1h 33m
Sound Mix
Mono, Dolby
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