Female trouble

Blu-ray 1974

"Glamour has never been more grotesque than in Female Trouble, which injects the Hollywood melodrama with anarchic decadence. Divine, director John Waters' larger-than-life muse, engulfs the screen with charisma as Dawn Davenport, the living embodiment of the film's lurid mantra, 'Crime is beauty,' who progresses from a teenage nightmare hell-bent on getting cha-cha heels for Christmas to a fame monster whose egomaniacal impuses land her in the e...

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ISBN:

9781681434568

Edition:

Director-approved Blu-ray special edition

Description:

1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (20 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 17 cm)
digital optical
video file Blu-ray video

Target Audience Note:

Canadian Home Video Rating: Not rated
MPAA rating: NC-17; For Explicit Sexuality And Nudity

Other Title:

Title on container: John Waters' Female trouble

Notes:

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1974
Special features: New 4K digital restoration, supervised by director John Waters; Audio commentary from 2004 featuring Waters; New conversation between Waters and critic Dennis Lim; New and archival interviews with cast and crew members Mink Stole, Pat Moran, Vincent Peranio, Susan Lowe, Mary Vivian Pearce, Hilary Taylor, and Van Smith; Interview from 1975 featuring Waters and cast members Divine, Stole, and David Lochary; Deleted scenes and alternate takes; Exclusive behind-the-scenes documentary footage by Steve Yeager; An essay by critic Ed Halter
Wide screen (1.66:1)
Editors, Charles Roggero, John Waters
Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole, Edith Massey, Cookie Mueller, Susan Walsh, Michael Potter, Ed Peanio, Paul Swift, George Figgs, Susan Lowe
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH)
System requirements: Blu-ray player ; will not play on standard DVD players
Blu-ray, region A, widescreen (1.66:1) presentation; LPCM 1.0 monaural

Control Number:

2643078

UPC:

715515216616

Other Authors:

Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher
Divine, 1945-1988, actor
Dreamland Films, presenter, production company
Figgs, George, 1947- actor
Lochary, David, 1944-1977, actor
Lowe, Susan, 1948- actor
Massey, Edith, actor
Mueller, Cookie, actor
Pearce, Mary Vivian, actor
Peranio, Ed, actor
Potter, Michael (Actor), actor
Roggero, Charles, editor of moving image work
Stole, Mink, actor
Swift, Paul, 1934-1994, actor
Walsh, Susan, 1948-2009, actor
Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- ), film distributor
Waters, John, 1946- film director, film producer, screenwriter, director of photography, editor of moving image work

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