History Film / FemaleTrouble

* WritingLines: As a teen, Dawn eats a meatball sandwich in class and, when a student tattles on her, the teacher makes her write "I will not eat in class" fifty times on the chalkboard.

-->-- '''Rex Reed''' in his review, [[InsultBackfire which was put on the official movie poster]]

-->'''Miss Holland''': ''(after Chiclet whispers into her ear that she'll cut her up after class)'' Now they're threatening me, these ''awful cheap girls''!

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Chicklette/Chiclette/Chiclet/Chicklet's name seems to have no official spelling since even looking at Website/TheOtherWiki and the credits just adds to the confusion. Gator/Gater is a much milder case in comparison.

* SpiritualSuccessor: Amusingly enough, to ''Film/{{Hairspray}}''. Tracy Turnblad is essentially the sweet, good-natured version of Dawn Davenport.

* BeserkButton: Do not jump rope withing ten feet of Dawn Davenport.

It tells the story of Dawn Davenport, from her youth back in the 1960s to her increasingly [[HilarityEnsues bizarre]] and violent life of crime after running away from home.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Chicklette/Chiclette/Chiclet/Chicklet's name seems to have no official spelling since even looking at Wiki/TheOtherWiki and the credits just adds to the confusion. Gator/Gater is a much milder case in comparison.

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Brought to you by [[Creator/JohnWaters the same person]] who brought you ''Film/PinkFlamingos'', '''''Female Trouble''''' is a 1974 dark comedy film, starring Creator/{{Divine|Actor}}, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole, Edith Massey, Michael Potter, Cookie Mueller, and Susan Walsh.

* SocietyMarchesOn: Abbie Hoffman and Richard Speck are still known cultural references, but does anyone really remember who Juan Corona (a Mexican SerialKiller) or even less so who [[https://www.flickr.com/photos/washington_area_spark/22676643504 Leslie Bacon]] was?

* FamousLastWords: "I love every ''[[PrecisionFStrike fucking]]'' one of you!"

* HetIsEw: Invoked by Aunt Ida, which was formerly the page quote.
-->'''Aunt Ida:''' The world of the heterosexual is a sick and boring life!

* HetIsEw: Invoked by Aunt Ida.

* BeehiveHairdo: Being a John Waters film made in the early 1970s, big hair is still in full swing. They're mostly bouffants rather than actual Beehives, but still.

* TitleThemeTune: Sung by Divine.

* GoodIsBoring: The reason Aunt Ida tells Gator to "[[HetIsEw go nelly]]" is that she's worried he'll get a 9-to-5 job, be HappilyMarried and have children, a "sick and boring life."

* HetIsEw: In-Universe. Aunt Ida repeatedly begs for Gator to "go nelly" and date boys because 'the world of a heterosexual is a sick and boring life.'

* VillainyFreeVillain: Aunt Ida, kind of. She may be a fat, crazy old lady with a very, ahem, [[FanDisservice unique taste in fashion]] who has some [[FagHag strange preference to queers]] [[HetIsEw over heterosexuals]], but isn't that much of a threat except becoming Dawn's arch-nemesis after Gator decided to marry her. The worst she's done would be throwing acid on Dawn's face (after Gator ran away, pinning the blame on her) and conspiring with the Dashers to lie about who kidnapped and imprisoned her.

* WriteWhatYouKnow: That "knocking over the Christmas tree on your parents" thing? John Waters said it happened during one contentious Christmas with his folks.