Female Trouble

<p><b>“Burroughs famously dubbed Waters the Pope of Trash. <i>Female Trouble</i>, we might say, is his <i>Summa Trashologica</i>.”<br>—</b><b>Ed Halter, The Criterion Collection</b><br><br>It all goes to hell when Baltimore bad girl Dawn Davenport doesn’t get the cha-cha heels she’s been demanding for Christmas. In this hilarious, irreverent, pyrotechnic melee of high-trash hijinks, Dawn ruins Christmas, skips town, and embarks on a wild ride that involves hitchhiking, robbery, murder, pregnancy—and, of course, modeling and glamour, too. The second installment of John Waters’ classic Trash Trilogy, <i>Female Trouble</i> explodes conventional norms of good behavior (and art) and is all the proof you’ll ever need that sometimes being bad can feel so, so very good.</p>