Female Trouble

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This is my favorite John Waters movie. It is tasteless and endlessly quotable. It also has moments where its social commentary is still scarily accurate. I will never get tired of “Female Trouble” despite having seen it repeatedly for the last 25 years.I have owned this movie in other formats, but in the Criterion Collection edition, the colors really pop and the image is clearer and sharper than I’ve ever seen it…too clear maybe? LOLThis disc is loaded with special features, including interviews both old and new which are both amusing and enlightening. I enjoyed the special features almost as much as I enjoyed the movie itself.-Scott Lehmann

I don’t know what’s going on at Criterion headquarters because first they gave us Multiple Maniacs, and I thought it would be a one-off, but now they go and do Female Trouble, my all-time favorite John Waters movie along with Serial Mom.Let’s be honest and admit that we’d have never thought for one second that a renowned studio like Criterion would tackle Water movies because while having tons of merit, they are quite extreme and it’s a fantastic gift that they regard them as highly as mainstream-regarded classics.The extras are fantastic, you get to see interview with almost all of the cast and crew!I really wish that we’d still get the cardboard packaging instead of boring plastic ones though.-rickshayne

I have a love/hate relationship with this movie. I was really expecting this to be amazing, but the first time I watched it, I couldn’t keep my eyes open, at some point I fell asleep through it. Something about it is so boring, but of course it’s also intriguing. Every scene with Divine (and with Edith Massey) is a revelation, really! But that’s really about it. Those two made this movie, but it felt like they hardly had much of a spotlight. I didn’t care for any of the side characters, especially Taffy, and Mink Stole as Taffy when she’s a little older. I was surprised at how much she overpowered the scenes and almost most of the movie, like, it was just too much, and who cares? There was just too much of that character screaming and flailing about and not enough Edith or Divine. Loved the grossness of some scenes tho (like the bloody baby, any male nudity and male crotch shots are always refreshing, even if it was intentionally nasty looking lol, we just see them so rarely, and other gross details like poop stains, etc.) lol. And not to mention. THE COSTUMES. They were gorgeous. But on the whole, it’s not that this movie wasn’t for me, but for how hyped this movie is by John Waters fans, I was just expecting something more. I guess I was just underwhelmed.-Vanessa Clark

DVD Wholesale Main Features:

Actors: Divine, David Lochary, Edith Massey, Cookie Mueller, Mary Vivian Pearce
Directors: John Waters
Format: Color, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English
Subtitles: English
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only.)
Number of discs: 1
Rated: NC-17 Adults Only
Studio: Criterion Collection
DVD Release Date: June 26, 2018
Run Time: 97 minutes
ASIN: B07BF2S4RW