starring Divine, David Lochary
, Mary Vivian Pearce
, Mink Stole
, Edith Massey
, Michael Potter, Cookie Mueller
, and Susan Walsh
.
The film is dedicated to Manson Family member Charles "Tex" Watson. Waters' prison visits to Watson inspired the "crime is beauty" theme of the film and in the film's opening credits, Waters includes a wooden toy helicopter that Watson made for him.
1960 Baltimore; juvenile delinquent
Dawn Davenport (Divine), a regular troublemaker at her all-girls school, receives a failing Geography grade and a sentence of writing lines for fighting, lying, cheating, and eating in class.
The world of the heterosexual is a sick and boring life.
Queers are just better. I'd be so proud if you was a fag.
Fucker! Pig fucker! Hetero! Filthy hetero stink-shit!
[to Taffy] And remember, my offer still stands. If you get tired of being a Hare Krishna, you come live with me and be a lesbian!
Where did you get this crap, Taffy? I told you to spend that money I gave you on a cute outfit, but ooooh-noooo! As soon as my back is turned, you run right out and spend it on props for your morbid little games! Well, I want it cleaned up pronto! We're having guests for dinner and I want you looking as P-R-E-T-T-Y as humanly possible!
You're a pain, Taffy. A pain in my big asshole!
I'm afraid I'm going to have to break the news to you, but I've thrown Gator out and started divorce proceedings. I don't want to seem overly bitter, but I want you to destroy all of his belongings.
Davenport. Dawn Davenport! I'm a thief and a shitkicker, and, uh, I'd like to be famous.
I've DONE everything a mother can do: I've locked her in her room, I've beat her with the car aerial. Nothing changes her. It's HARD being a loving mother!
Writing a book, hippie? Why don't you go listen to some folk music and give me a break!